“Our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma and we will back up those prayers with deeds as long as it takes.”
-President Obama made a statement earlier on the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma.
President Obama delivers his second inaugural address. (Text here)
ICYMI: President Obama taking his oath of office for a second time.
President Obama’s comprehensive gun control agenda in four points (and highlights)
1. Fixing background check loopholes
2. Banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
3. Making schools safer
4. Increasing access to mental health services
Full speech here.
Source: White House
Why haven’t we heard more about climate change during the national campaign?
Joseph Romm, Center for American Progress:
Well, of course, Mitt Romney gets a lot of money from fossil fuel interests. So, that’s one reason he even opposes a clean energy tax credit for wind.
Obama, I think, is just misreading the polls entirely…It’s when global warming becomes local that the public becomes concerned about it. And that’s why the polls in the last two years have shown the public is increasingly concerned, and this is particularly true of independent voters also. They are very concerned about their local pollution, but also the extreme weather that they have been seeing.
Who could miss 14 billion-dollar extreme weather disasters in this country last year and over seven this year? It’s just — you know, everyone sees the weather is going crazy, and it’s affecting them. It’s not going to be affecting a distant people in a distant land a distant time from now. It’s happening here now.
"I have a different theory. And the theory is that Mitt Romney is the first presidential candidate in — certainly in the last 35 years who wherever he campaigns does worse. And I think that’s his real problem."
— Mark Shields on why President Obama seems to be doing better in swing states. (Full interview)
ICYMI: Obama responds to health care reform ruling
“Today’s decision was a victory for people all over this country.”
