NRA's Wayne LaPierre unhappy an Obama official cares about animals.

I was watching C-Span III this morning and the National Rifle Association's CEO and Exec. VP, the porcine Wayne LaPierre addressing the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference being held in DC. I caught him in mid speech.

Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules. Our founding fathers understood that freedom always rides with a firearm at it's side.

So those with the guns get to make the rules!!! Does that mean they are going to use those guns to change Obama's new rules?
He continued to rail at the "elites" now in power in Washington about their plans to regulate and register ALL guns and he showed clips of Hillary Clinton during her campaign saying exactly that. Hurray for Hillary. The thing he was most upset about was President Obama's nomination of Cass Sunstein as Regulatory czar who would set regulatory policy.
He described him as more rabid animal rights than PETA. He said Sunstein would give animals legal standing and ban all practices that would not be accepted if only they were witnessed. I think this is the greatest news I have ever heard.
I googled him and found this rather disconcerting information at the LA Times. Since he is the first official I have heard of who is for animal rights I am praying he gets confirmed.

Reporting from Washington -- Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein, a widely admired intellectual and friend of President Obama, has spent years delving into the obscure issues of regulatory law and behavioral economics.
Though he is generally described as left of center, Sunstein's academic interests in regulation have led him to raise questions about the constitutionality of liberal favorites such as workplace safety laws and the Clean Air Act. He has embraced a controversial "senior death discount" that calculates the lives of younger people as having a greater value than those of the elderly.
Until recently such debates have taken place largely in the world of legal scholarship. But now that Obama has named Sunstein to serve as his regulatory czar, environmentalists and labor activists are digging into his voluminous body of work -- and wondering what policies might emanate from a man so dedicated to calculating the dollar value of every regulation.
Sunstein, who is married to another Obama friend, Samantha Power, reiterated recently his belief in "defending a strong regulatory state." Much of his academic and popular work is devoted to understanding human behavior and determining what will motivate people, corporations and nations to do the right thing.
But environmental activists say his published views on cost-benefit analysis are more aligned with what they would expect from a George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan appointee. The more a regulation stood to cost industry, the less likely those administrations were to impose it.
"If a Republican nominee had these views, the environmental community would be screaming for his scalp," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Instead, the response has been muted, as environmental and labor groups question the wisdom of criticizing the nominee of a popular president who has promised to support their agenda.
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs might sound like a remote bureaucratic outpost, but since the Reagan presidency it has influenced federal efforts to protect the public from unsafe food, dangerous chemicals, polluted air, climate change and workplace hazards.
That's because the office reviews any major regulatory idea that comes from an executive branch agency. Business lobbyists already are applauding Sunstein's nomination, hoping he might slow the march back to aggressive regulation under the new Democratic administration.
Labor and environmental advocates, on the other hand, want Democratic senators to question Sunstein closely at his confirmation hearing. Leading their concerns are his legal theories and their potential to hamper tough regulation.
But in an e-mail to Obama advisors this month, Sunstein said he had devoted much of his career to supporting strong regulation and figuring out how to make it better.
"I do talk a lot about cost-benefit analysis," he wrote, "and that gets me in trouble in some quarters."
He described his first book, "After the Rights Revolution," published in 1990, as a "sustained defense of the regulatory state, above all in the environmental area." The book lists as its first goal to "defend government regulation against influential attacks."
His 1997 book, "Free Markets and Social Justice," explains that regulation is needed "because free markets fail."
"I also believe that significant steps should be taken to control the problem of global warming," he said in the e-mail, excerpts of which were provided to The Times and the Chicago Tribune by a person close to Obama's transition team who asked not to be identified.