What Daschle voted for earlier in the year was a massive expansion of federal gun control and gun bans, extending far beyond the original ban on certain cosmetic features of a handful of guns. (pistol grips, bayonet attachment points, flash suppresors)
That vote was the first one Kerry bothered to cast in the Senate this year. He returned to vote for higher taxes and against the Lacy Peterson law.
His few votes show where his heart is really at.
I have serious problems about this claim. Oh I have no doubt some poll somewhere can back this up, but viscerally it makes no sense.
Are they talking about police chiefs and commissioners, who are largely political appointees, or sheriffs and beat cops? I would wager the answers would be radically different.
Why is it that everytime I read a quote from some gun-grabbing leftist, the words "believe" or "feel" is in the sentence somewhere? < /rhetorical question >
I don't think we're going to have to worry about Dasch' the Obstructionist for very much longer. Despite spending $8M on his campaign this year, his numbers haven't budged against Thune, who has name recongintion now from running against Johnson in '02, and barely losing. You put it all together: A presidential election year, with 60+% S.Dakotans voting for W, pictures of Dasch getting cuddly with Mickey Moore, the gay marriage issue, the weapons ban, it just seems that the stars have never been more aligned to get rid of the little guy.
When Daschle has to choose between using his brain cells
Daschle proved that he cannot resist acting like a Know-it-all at a 2001 press conference, where he tried to ridicule supporters of the Missile Defense Program. He hoped to make them look like idiots, but his ploy backfired.
Transcript of Tom Daschle 2001 press conference on a Missile Defense program
Whether or not we want to violate the ABM treaty
especially with a concept [NMD program] that we may not know
...or...
that we do know now does not work
is something that also mystifies me.
I mean
Every aspect of the debate and the consideration
that is given this whole program
is... is troubling to me.
I... I mean... I...there's a disconnect there.
I mean...It just seems common sense....
I mean...there's no brain..
This isn't rocket science here...
Yes it IS rocket science....
that's the problem..
Hadn't thought about that..
As I just think out loud ....
as I meander through here.
(laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh)
That's the problem.