Democrats....Bush Key on Assault Weapons

Associated Press - Las Vegas Sun.com ^ | May 14, 2003 | Jim Abrams

[Godebert]

By JIM ABRAMS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -

President Bush should take the lead in overcoming resistance within his own party to extending an assault weapons ban due to expire next year, Democrats said Wednesday.

"If the bill dies we will lay it at the president's doorstep," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said a day after House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told reporters that the 1994 law banning the manufacture of 19 types of common military-style assault weapons would not be renewed.

Schumer said the gun bill would be an issue in the 2004 election, a development that could pose problems for Democrats who represent districts with strong gun rights sentiment. The assault ban vote was also a campaign topic in 1994, the year Republicans recaptured the House after spending 40 years in the minority.

Bush, taking a position at odds with the National Rifle Association, has voiced support for extending the ban, and White House spokesman Ari Fleischer on Wednesday said that support would carry weight in Congress.

"This is a matter that the House has to work out, of course, by listening to the will of its members, but the president's position is clear on it," Fleischer said. "When the president states his position like that, it helps get the message to the Congress."

Fleischer would not say whether Bush would pressure DeLay to bring such a bill up for a vote. DeLay, R-Texas, on Tuesday indicated that there would be no effort to renew the current law before it expires on Sept. 13, 2004. "The votes in the House are not there to reauthorize it," he said.

"The real question is will the president weigh in and ask the leaders to schedule a vote," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., who as a senior adviser to President Clinton played a key role in guiding the 1994 legislation through Congress.

[Dane]

The Constitution Party presidential candidate received well over 500,000 votes in the 2000 election

Uh wrong there bertie, Howie Phillips and the Contstution party received less than 100,000 votes in 2000.

Howard Phillips
Constitution, Independent American, American Independent,
Independent, American Constitution, Concerned Citizens,
United States Taxpayers, "Write-In", "By Petition"
Popular Vote: 98,016 (0.09%)
On the ballot in 47 (6 of which are write-ins) jurisdictions totaling 501 Electoral votes

LINK

[Godebert]

"I guess you like getting played like a fiddle by the liberal media."

In reality it is Bush who is getting played "like a fiddle" by the liberal media. He fears the mean things they will say about him if he does the right thing.

[Amelia]

Howie Phillips and the Contstution party received less than 100,000 votes in 2000....Popular Vote: 98,016 (0.09%)

INROADS, huh?

ROFL

[hchutch]

Surprise, surprise, they will find something else to moan about, even the fact that the President said one thing while DeLay and the others killed it.

These folks will complain just because the bill will die in a manner that is NOT of their choosing. Too often, conservatives are more concerned with ideological purity as opposed to getting the job done, even if it gets messy.

[FSPress]

Does how a person looks mean that their arguments are not valid?

[rdb3]

Confine your remarks to the discussion at hand. Personal attacks are not appreciated.

When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you.

Doing bad things to bad people...

[Amelia]

For a so called political forum website you'd think they'd understand a little "politics".

Amazing, isn't it?

Some people seem to only understand 2 things: their "principles", and cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

[CWOJackson]

Political Kamakazi

[FSPress]

I will give you my opinion when I want to give it to you!

[Amelia]

Does how a person looks mean that their arguments are not valid?

No, but regardless of how he looks, his arguments are NOT valid.

Would YOU like to argue the topic at hand, or would you prefer to play thread nanny?

[justshe]

~~~He fears the mean things they will say about him if he does the right thing.~~~

Yep......sure stopped him invading Iraq.

[CyberAnt]

Wasn't there a thread here last night about this very thing ...?? I seem to remember the thread saying the President had decided to allow the ban to expire.

Was I reading it wrong ...?? Who saw the other thread ...??

[FSPress]

The thread is about assault weapons, but you seem far more interested it personal attacks!

[FSPress]

The thread is about assault weapons, but you seem far more interested it personal attacks!

[Godebert]

I stand corrected. That won't change my support for the party however.

[Dane]

INROADS, huh?

The Constitution party couldn't even make foot prints in fresh snow in 2000.

But that won't change Godebert and his friends from shouting that they are the only true "conservatives".

[rdb3]

I will give you my opinion when I want to give it to you!

No you won't. And since my "personal attacks" weren't aimed at you, mind your own damned business. Is the poster I aimed at not a man? Why does he need you to defend him?

Let a man be a man. Doesn't need your help.

Doing bad things to bad people...

[CWOJackson]

It doesn't matter how many times the issue is dispelled, it remains a convenient excuse to try and use as a wedge issue against the President.

The liberals know how to push an issue to their advantage. The have their moles at work around the clock.

[FSPress]

From the skill of you personal attacks I can see that you are a master debator. See it's just that easy to give you my opinion of your behavior.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

It's just hard to take a person like this serious. Don't you think?

PSSST..........tattletails are rarely liked.