Issa: ‘Desperate’ Obama is about to ‘fade away’

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that President Obama’s executive actions on guns are a desperate attempt to remain relevant.

“I think it needs to be discussed but this needs to be weighed as the desperate act of a fading administration,” he said on Boston Herald Radio’s “Herald Drive.”

{mosads}“We are basically going to watch this president fade away,” Issa said of Obama. “It was 50 percent stunt and 50 percent ideology. The reality is that this president has not strictly enforced gun law.”

Issa said Obama is going it alone on gun control to try to help Democrats in the 2016 elections.

“This administration is trying to remain relevant [and] rally its base,” he said. “It is essentially in campaign mode for whoever the nominee is on the Democratic side.”

The former House Oversight Committee chairman said Obama’s moves might have the unintended effect of galvanizing gun owners.

“Gun sales are going to go through the roof,” Issa said. “Americans are scared that this president is going to try to take away their right to bear and keep arms.”

Obama unveiled his executive actions on gun control during an emotional speech Tuesday afternoon. The president wept while invoking the many victims of mass shootings during his tenure.

“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,” Obama said of the children killed during a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

“And by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago everyday,” the president added.

Obama’s measures expand federal background checks for gun sales while increasing enforcement efforts.