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For Senator, Bill’s Defeat Is Personal and Political
NYTimes ^ | April 17, 2013 | JEREMY W. PETERS

Posted on 04/17/2013 8:27:59 PM PDT by South40

WASHINGTON — When Senator Dianne Feinstein led the successful push for a federal assault weapons ban in 1994, she had a simple pitch to skeptical colleagues: What would you need to support this bill?

But when she started asking that question this year as she pushed for a renewal of the ban, the answer was almost always a resolute “Nothing.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Wings-n-Wind

That is one hideous looking woman.


21 posted on 04/17/2013 9:33:52 PM PDT by South40 (I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Any clue as to what “gun” is top-right in that photo?


22 posted on 04/17/2013 9:49:51 PM PDT by 867V309
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To: South40

Hmmmm... sounds like Cruz is the Constitutional Professor with Tenure, and Feinstein *IS* a sixth grader after all!


23 posted on 04/17/2013 10:26:11 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: 867V309

I think it might be a tricked up Steyr Aug.


24 posted on 04/17/2013 10:31:19 PM PDT by VR-21 (I'm weary of being lorded over by criminals and gilded degenerates.)
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To: Mastador1

“Oh she hasn’t had time for that, much too busy trying to ban scary scary looking guns!”

But she and fourth hubbie “Tricky Dickie Blum” have managed to steal the taxpayers blind.


25 posted on 04/17/2013 10:45:18 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: South40; Perdogg; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; Liz; ...

Its unfortunate that we upset a fine Senator lady like DIFI by rejecting all her ideas.

BAWWWWAA!


26 posted on 04/17/2013 10:54:16 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: 867V309

I think that’s a Beretta Storm 9x19.


27 posted on 04/17/2013 11:09:05 PM PDT by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: South40

Fineswine can go piss-off. Time to vote out the fascists in Congress.


28 posted on 04/17/2013 11:11:45 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama's vision - No Job is a Good Job)
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To: onyx

Re #9 and Feinstein saying “I have been a senator for over 20 years”, but she left out the rest of the sentence which is “but I’ve been a leftist asshole all my life”.

What a waste of a human being, and a crook at that.


29 posted on 04/17/2013 11:23:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: South40
...she stood on the floor and implored them, “Show some guts.”

And 60 of them did! At least she can take comfort in that her gun control amendment is the only one to get 60 votes! Hehehehehehehe

30 posted on 04/18/2013 12:05:39 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: VR-21; tanuki

I think it is photoshopped so the weapon has no barrel pointing directly at the “esteemed” senator’s head. Political correctness meets 2nd Ammendment.


31 posted on 04/18/2013 12:16:20 AM PDT by 867V309
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To: vette6387

Just redistributing the wealth baby!Moving it from the filthy unwashed to the more deserving ruling class. You know the do as I say not as I do class.


32 posted on 04/18/2013 12:47:40 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: South40

She sounds like a car salesman: “what would it take to put you in the driver’s seat?”


33 posted on 04/18/2013 2:46:05 AM PDT by grobdriver
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To: South40

Anytime freedom wins, a demon loses its wings.

Suck it up, DiFi. The people, through their representatives, spoke.


34 posted on 04/18/2013 3:04:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: upchuck

Hope the dems make this a big issue in 2014.


35 posted on 04/18/2013 3:34:12 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: sickoflibs; South40; Perdogg; Gilbo_3; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; Liz

Reiterate:

Dear DiFi: Suck it.

She’ll be back. We will be fighting this witch and her idiot cabal over and over again.


36 posted on 04/18/2013 5:19:16 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; All

Exactly right!

Now is the not the time to kick back; they’re already planning plans B, C, D, E...


37 posted on 04/18/2013 5:23:39 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: South40

She is old and shop worn. The last effort to sell the tired old crap was a failure. She can now shuffle off to her grave in disgraceful failure


38 posted on 04/18/2013 5:24:57 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: NFHale; sickoflibs; South40; Perdogg; Gilbo_3; Impy; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; ...

DIFI & husband have made a fortune trading on her govt. connections. Wish we could replevy all that dough : )


39 posted on 04/18/2013 10:34:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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