They will, of course. They’ll hold the line because they come up every two years.
Senate is a different story, though. I just wrote my two Georgia Senators about yesterday’s vote. I called both of them traitors to freedom. Told Chamblis I hope Obama taxes away everything he stole while in the Senate, and told Isakson I’d vote for a Democrat before I voted for him again. I am patently confident both will vote against this bill, but they had a chance to make conservatives’ power more effective yesterday. Duplicitous bastards trying to work both sides of an issue.
Do more -- the GA Constitution, Article I, Paragraph VIII says:
Arms, right to keep and bear.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the General Assembly shall have power to prescribe the manner in which arms may be borne.
So it is very clear that the State's constitution prohibits the act of infringing upon the right to keep and bear arms, therefore they have no authority to commit the vote of the State of Georgia to 'yea'... because it is obvious that they cannot legitimately excercise a power which the State is prohibited from exercising; furthermore, as the act itself is violative of the 2ND the votes qualify as felonies:
18 USC § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon*, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
18 USC § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
* There is, of course the implied threatened use of a weapon here: what happens when one breaks a "law"?