Posted on 04/03/2018 8:33:22 AM PDT by rktman
When Alabama Republicans made the epic mistake of nominating a surreally-flawed crackpot for US Senate last year, a man named Doug Jones was the beneficiary of that self-inflicted wound. Jones, a Democrat, narrowly won the election to replace Jeff Sessions in one of America's reddest states. After his improbable victory, political observers began to speculate whether Jones would let his liberal flag fly and vote as if he's on borrowed time -- or whether he'd try to cultivate a record that he could conceivably defend in a 2020 re-election push. Early on, the signals have been mixed. He's sided with GOP leadership on a few votes, but also signed on to his party's radical filibuster, killing a popular reform to limit elective abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy and beyond. Jones is, after all, an extremist on that issue, which is likely one of the main reasons a cretin like Roy Moore even kept things close.
Another major litmus test is guns. Is Jones willing to follow in the footsteps of "moderate" Democrats like Virginia's Mark Warner, who's recently flip-flopped on a so-called "assault weapons" ban -- shifting to the left as his state grows bluer, thanks to the expansion of the DC Metro area? Based on his comments on ABC's This Week on Sunday, it sounds like Jones may be interested in keeping his job for longer than the duration of his current placeholder term -- via the Free Beacon:
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translation: Hey, nutjobs and sleeper agents, why don’t you go out and shoot-up a couple more schools to give me cover?
This can’t be true. I saw his campaign ads. He is a staunch defender of the 2nd Amendment. Actually, I sent him an email on Monday politely asking how his statements during the campaign jibe with that comment. Still waiting for a response.
“....how his statements during the campaign jibe with that comment....” Simple response to you: “I’m a democrat. You really thought I wouldn’t lie?”. And so it goes.
He won’t ban guns - until a bill comes up to ban guns. Then he’ll vote for it.
suthener wrote: “This can’t be true. I saw his campaign ads. He is a staunch defender of the 2nd Amendment.”
And, he will be a “staunch defender” until Schumer needs his vote. Then he’ll vote liberal. It will depend upon how close the vote will be. If the law attacking gun rights is doomed to pass, then he’ll vote against it to burnish his credentials. If it’s close and Schumer needs his vote to pass the bill, he’ll vote Schumer’s way.
Alabama’s Democratic Senator: I’m Not Prepared to Support a ‘Gun Ban’...Yet.
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In other words, he’s decided he likes Washington DC and wants to stay. He’ll say what it takes to get re-elected.
Dick Shelby endorsed him, didn’t he?
He sound like he’s FULL of nuance..?
Thoroughly modern fast evolving progressive politician man.
Hey Doug Jones, you dumba$$. You don’t need to support a gun ban. You just need to support and uphold the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States just like you should support all the other parts of the US Constitution. If you don’t like the Constitution, your only option is to submit legislation to change the Constitution.
“uphold and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic”
Especially in Alabama from what I understand.
I cannot imagine they are not 2nd Amendment supporters.
He’ll wrap himself around the 2nd Amendment around election time. They always do.
Oddly enough, when my Dad swore me in to the USN nearly 51 years ago, I actually took that oath to heart and it still lives there today. Weird huh?
” Guess these folks all lied when they sword to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic?”
They are the domestic enemies.
Uniparty Senator Jones unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to make civil gun laws.
From related threads …
Regarding so-called federal civil gun laws, note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had verified the reasonably clear meaning of the 10th Amendment, that powers that the states haven't expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So even if Sen. Jones supported civil gun control legislation, it remains that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before Congress could make such bills.
Sadly, the lack of express constitutional authority to make certain laws has never stopped the corrupt, post-17A ratification Congress from unconstitutionally expanding its powers by simply making such laws despite the Constitution.
As evidenced by Sen. Jones, and with all due respect to Alabama FReepers, the basic problem with 17A is that low-information voters elect senators who evidently don’t understand the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters do.
In order to make Pres. Trump’s vision for MAGA last as long as possible, patriots need to work with their state lawmakers to support Trump in leading the states to repeal 17A.
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
“I cannot imagine they are not 2nd Amendment supporters. “
Depends on how many eastern Asian carp have infested the state.
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