“If we are smart we will delay, hamper, reschedule and escalate this debate long enough to ride it to victory in 2014.”
Heh.
The Republicans will be lucky to hold the House by 2014.
Gun control will be a burning issue in 2013, and right now I’d put the odds at least 50/50 that some kind of gun bill will pass in the coming year. The ONLY “point of Republican resistance” to the oncoming legislative onslaught will be the House. Republican senators will either fold like wrapping paper on this one, or be totally marginalized out of the process (remember that Harry Reid says the filibuster is going away in 2013 — a vote of 51 will be all that’s needed).
Assuming that gun control fails next year, expect the ‘rats to go back to hammering the Pubbies on “the economy” and tax breaks for the wealthy right up until the 2014 elections. Things probably won’t improve between now and then and even then the poor economy will be blamed on Republican “obstruction”. There’s a very good chance that the left will break the mold on the midterm elections (where, the party of the president normally loses votes), just as Obama himself broke that mode and won re-election (after presiding over a disastrous economy for four years).
I’ll go on record today predicting that the ‘rats will gain seats in the House in 2014, and may gain just enough to eke out a majority.
If that happens, expect the boom to drop on gun control in 2015.
I won’t like it any more than you do.
But I’m a realist, and that’s how I see it...
Gun control will pass because Boner will give in and get his party to vote for it.