I am here to tell you that it will absolutely make it to his desk.
100% guarenteed.
Stroke of the pen, lose the election. "Kinda cool."
One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes." Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.
"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.
Last month, Bush did propose reforms to immigration policy. But he insisted, "I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship [because it] perpetuates illegal immigration."
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson likened Moby's proposal to "dirty campaign tactics we're already seeing from John Kerry."
"His campaign was willing to use these kinds of voter suppression tactics against members of his own party in Iowa and New Hampshire," Iverson says. "John Kerry is a hypocrite. He pledged to run a clean campaign. Then he uses the lowest form of gutter politics to impugn his opponents, Democratic and Republican. It's unfortunate but this is probably just the beginning of the kind of tactics we're going to be seeing from John Kerry in the months to come."
Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, "I doubt that Moby was suggesting anybody suppress the vote. We did not use any dirty tactics against any candidate.
"When it comes to dirty tricks the Republic party wrote the book. We've already seen Republican attacks and we haven't even won the nomination yet. The Republican Party is clearly afraid of John Kerry."
Yep. It'll be attached to some "must sign" bill. .....and the Prez will sign it, just as he said he'd do.
.....Zero vetos and (not) counting.....
To get around the ban, manufacturers simply changed the guns to remove one of the characteristics on the list and kept on producing them. [Another lie - they had to remove all the features except one from the list.] The Bushmaster XM15 used in the 2002 sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area, for instance, was one of these weapons, a clone of the banned AR-15 assault rifle. [And with a rate of fire of one shot every three days, any other weapon including muzzle loading cannon could have worked.]
This loophole [LIE!! It's not a loophole, it's a specific legal exemption that was explicitly created by law.] is one that would be closed in legislation introduced in the House and Senate that is even stricter than the Feinstein-Schumer legislation. Its co-sponsors include Feinstein's California Democratic colleague, Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is running for re-election this November. [She must be defeated.]
That aside, here's a question:
Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has decided "it's not good enough just to renew a law with loopholes that have caused the death of law enforcement officers and helped those who want to commit terrorism,'' said Ted Kalo, the Democratic counsel for the House Judiciary Committee.
How many LEO's are killed each year by "assault rifles"?
This is so stupid. I guess I would still vote for Bush if he did sign a new AWB, but I just don't see where Americans are any safer because I can't buy a folding stock for my 10/22.
Won't it be ironic when it turns out the "gun lobby" is so intent on getting the liability protection -- which in more sane, less litigious times, would be totally unnecessary -- that it accepts the extension of the current ban on so-called assault weapons?
It'll pass. Bush will sign it because he's told it's politically expedient.
Is this turkey any relation to Elliot?
However, President Bush has said he will sign a renewal, if it makes it to his desk.
The implication here is that she thinks the purpose of a gun should be to "not cause injury?" This statement is absurd and a great example of why Sen. Feinstein is not fit to serve. If I'm not mistaken, there is nothing in the proposed law that states: if a gun has a manufacturer's defect and an injury occurs due to that defect, that company is NOT liable. I wonder if she needs help tying her shoes.
May have cost him two states? Espstein, YOU sir are a DOPE.
Gorebot's pro gun-grabbing stance cost him HIS OWN STATE, and Ark, and the whole south.
And one thing Mr. Rove better remember, the NRA played a HUGE part in getting Dubya elected.
Oh cr@p, excuse me now I have to puke, FNC just should Gorebot's rant from yesterday... gotta run.. BBL