The Bully Pulpit Tautology

Chait notes the circular nature of green lantern arguments as media accounts rush to blame the eminently predictable failure of Congress to pass gun control legislation on the White House: Would the threat of canceling the trip have caused Begich to reconsider, as the story implies? Obviously, we can't go back and re-run history and find out.

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