Mr. Above-it-All checks in for a bit of gun control

Obama calls for gun control deal in wake of Colorado cinema shootings

Still moving left as Romney is still moving right.

Gay marriage, immigration, and now this.

Three liberal agenda items he ignored for his entire first term he finally gets to just when he is supposed to be drifting quietly toward the middle.

So he and his handlers must have realized he was already too much in the middle and he needed to do something for the liberals of the party.

Meanwhile, the senate seems to be getting ready to vote to let the Bush tax cuts finally expire except on income under a quarter million.

The Republicans hate it but, it seems, will let it pass by simple majority rather than filibustering this as they have filibustered pretty much everything else the Democrats wanted or would agree to. 

House Republicans say they will not even bring it to the floor for a vote.