There are enough girlie men around here who keep getting their panties in a wad because Ari Fleischer once said if the AWB hits Bushes desk, he would sign it.
That was politics. It completely neutered the issue as something that the press could demagogue against Bush, and now it is gone, just like anybody with two brain cells in a row knew all along.
But all the "conservative" girlie men wanted Bush to pound his chest and propound upon Thomas Jefferson, the Second Amendment, and the need to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots so that the press would really have something to foam at the mouth about and get the Liberal girlie men all riled up and get the AWB renewed.
Victory by obscurity works every time it is tried.
Oregon's resident gun-grabbing witch, State Senator Ginny "Burdbrain" Burdick, has just gone on the media to announce that it is going to introduce an "Assault Weapon" ban in the Oregon legislature next session.
It said that "Assault Weapons" are "Terrorism" (YES, I HEARD it say that), and that "Legitimate Gun Owners Will Not Be Affected".
Burdbrain is up for re-election this year. Click here for its opponent's website.