Rich liberals step up

Celebrities donate $ 2 million for student march over gun violence

First, George and Amal Clooney pledged to donate $500,000. Then Steven Spielberg did the same. And then Oprah Winfrey did it, too.

In less than 24 hours, major celebrities have joined thousands of people all over the world to raise more than $2 million for the March For Our Lives, the upcoming gun control march being organized by the surviving students of last week’s high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

The march, which will take place on Saturday, March 24 in Washington, D.C., is part of a movement started by the students of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. to demand that “their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today,” according to the event’s website.

The students’ goal is to pressure lawmakers into enacting meaningful gun control legislation.

It won't work, and that will be a learning experience for independent voters and even Republicans who think Wayne LaPierre was frothing at the mouth at CPAC and the NRA is run by mad dogs.

And for the overwhelming American majority who don't share the organization's positions on lots of sensible gun control measures, however little they may be aware of the outrageous lunacy of the leadership of America's most politically connected gun club.

They will learn that the obstruction of gun control is centered in the intransigence of the Republican Party.

While opposition is bipartisan, it is almost exclusively to be found in the GOP.

If you really want to end the control of American policy on this matter by the most fantastic nutbags on God's green Earth, you need to get the GOP out of power and keep it out.

By the way.

It's called the National Rifle Association because in its first decades it was a rifle owner's club dedicated to teaching safe use of rifles and marksmanship with them.

By the way 2.

Oprah said in an interview that she wasn't running for president and the reason she gave, though not in so many words, was that she did not feel personally up to the responsibilities of the job.

And Trump?

Did she really think she would do a worse job than him?

He has a real shot in 2020, and what if the polls showed persistently and consistently that she could beat him, but no other Democrat had much chance?

For damn sure, for me, this is a no-brainer.

I would rather take my chances with Oprah than with The Duce, by a very long way.

By the way 3.

Let's hope this whole Parkland students thing isn't a flash in the pan that has long dissipated by March 24.