this kind of virtuous circle for itself, in which its projection of power equalled real power. and the real power fed the perception of its power. and now that s been punctured. it really has. people wake up in the morning and there s stilt members of congress and it s not the on slaugt they thought. and tha is a huge change in the politics of the issue. when you look at the president as proposed, universal background checks, stricter penalties for gun trafficking, how much of that is realistically possible? i think at this moment, we ve seen real bipartisan support for background checks. and i think we ve seen probably some support around assault weapons ban that we might likely get. i ve got to tell you, i think on the high magazines, the high-capacity magazines strikes
any group in america. rove will have trouble dancing his way out of this one. and, as we ve seen, his moves leaves a lot to be desired. tell me, what is your name? he s shooting quail look at him jumping up and down and ready to hop . joining me now is wayne slater and he s co-author of bush s brain how karl rove made george w. bush presidential. wayne, have republicans stopped being afraid of karl rove? boy, you see some indication of that with various tea party elements with christian conservatives and otheringss wh think others have been afraid to say very much about him because he was the king of the money with all of the power and for eight years and president of the white house, i think they ve seen some of the limits of carl.
to law? well, i think they can translate it to law. i don t think they re going to get everything that was in the package the president presented. but i think a few things that have happened are key. one, the kind of bipartisan work with the background checks. the loop loel that it has a justification is essentially an impossible justification to give to your average voter. if the idea is we should have a background check for guns and we have that in policy but there s a certain carve out, people who get around it, it s really hard to make the case that this carve out should exist. that s at their weakest, rhetorically. this is, in fact, where most of the guns are being sold, right? and particularly the kinds of guns that we re looking at here. i mean, folks are, in fact, buying them at these gun shows. that s simply the easiest, most straight forward place. and for law-abiding citizens, also. and i think the other part of this is that the nra s power had the nra was caught in