Open thread: Mea culpa
I am writing an open thread tonight to take the time to retract a post I had written yesterday and to express my regret for posting an article which was not true. I have removed the post but I do not think that is enough.
Yesterday I wrote a post taking Barack Obama to task for claiming that a minority in the Senate stopped the universal background checks on all firearms related transactions. It is true that the amendment failed by a vote of 54 to 46, but 54 Senators did vote to pass the amendment so Barack Obama was correct that a minority in the Senate did stop it, it simply did not get the super majority needed to pass.
It was not my intent to misrepresent the facts, I simply got caught up in my emotions and was not thinking it through. This is no excuse but it is the truth. I deeply regret my mistake and I apologize for it. I vow never to make this mistake again.
America's Watchtower 
No one had any idea what was in the bill. No one. The GOP could have made hay with what was in it. Unfortunately, my computer was dowm or I would have written all of then senators who voted for it. Even the ACLU raised a red flag. There was much more to the bill than background checks. The background checks now are thrown out. Not so with this bills thus we had registration via the backdoor.Don’t trouble yourself with such an insignificant matter. This was Just one point to the bill. Kids would have gotten records if a fellow student raised a concern. A sickening failure by the GOP.
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I hope you get your computer back up soon! You are right about this bill, it needed to be stopped and I am glad it was. We have plenty of issues to go after Obama about but misrepresenting the fact as I did hurts the cause because it takes away from our credibility.
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It was an honest mistake. Kudos for realizing it and having the courage and honesty to admit that and formmaking the correction.
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Thanks Larry, it really was an honest mistake but I felt I should address it here to help put it behind me.
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Gee Steve you would make a lousy liberal, admitting you may have goofed. Can’t you just picture Obama saying “Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.”
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It is true that when liberals are caught in a lie they rarely back down–remember Reid’s baseless claim that Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years, or the left’s claim that he killed a woman who had cancer–but that doesn’t excuse my mistake. We have to be above it.
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To err is human . . .
I notice you vow never to make that mistake again. You sound like me – why repeat a mistake when I can always find some bigger way to screw up?
Take good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Well, hopefully I don’t screw up worse than this! This was embarrassing enough for me!
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Embarrassing is walking out of a public bathroom with toilet paper on your shoe! If this is the worst thing you have printed, I think you are probably ok. As my son usually tells me, “it will be alright, Mom”! I will pass that on to you, as well, to remember.
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Thanks Lou, it was an honest mistake and I am sure it won’t be the last but now it is time for me to move on and put it behind me.
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DON’T WORRY! THE BILL JUST FAILED TO GET THE REQUIRED MAJORITY! BUT IT DID GET THE REQUIRED MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS NEEDED FOR DEFEAT!
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Thanks Ron, it is true that the bill didn’t get the required majority but it did get A majority but that is not what I claimed and so I had to do what I thought was right and issue an apology.
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Ok, Steve, you made an error, move on. If you were from this Administration, it would be normal! With all the numbers that are being thrown at us on a daily basis, is it any wonder that things are misunderstood? When they can come out with numbers that we KNOW are wrong and get away with it, what you did was minor and unintentional. Now, to say that it will never happen again, is a tall order, I would just let it go. You brought it to everyones attention that there was a mistake, it is a done deal. That we had enough Senators that saw this bill for what it was, amazes me. They usually don’t take the time to read it. Looks like WE are the ones paying attention, but I give them a bit of credit for not just pushing this bill thru.
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I have moved on, I should have said I hope to never do it again. Oh well. 🙂 I am finishing up a post on the marathon bombing and immigration reform but I am going to let the dust settle for a little bit before posting it.
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Will look forward to reading it. As we know, the information changes on a daily basis, as to what we will accept. I also wonder while we are focusing on this, what is being slipped thru on us. I doubt we will know what really happened and who is/was at fault. There is so much that the public doesn’t know and that the Administration feels they can keep from us. That is the troubling thing, we get a “need to know basis” and apparently we are not on the short list. At some point, I would hope they stop this behavior, but I doubt that will happen. When it involves American citizens, I would think we have a right to the truth. What are the chances of our government coming clean with the actual facts? With anything? Benghazi, F&F, 9-11, the marathon and way back to WACO and the Oklahoma City bombing, I do not feel we have ever known the whole truth. I am not blaming just one party, they have all had a hand in it. And, to think we are the ones paying for this mess, will we ever learn? We could put any one of us on this blog in their positions and I would say we would probably do a better job than what is being done running this country.
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The post is complete but I am going to sit on it until Monday because the story keeps changing and I want to let it play out a little while. As for what the Obama regime slipped though, it was CISPA and he did it with the help of the Congress, nobody is innocent in this one.
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