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.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

It's 98% full...is that close enough? ;-)

Egads !!!! Does that mean this is just a warm-up?

[Joe Hadenuf]

What an idiot.

Why are you jumping all over that poster? What's up with the name calling? Isn't that against the rules here?

You want others to get nasty with you?

[TomServo]

Damn. I'm gonna miss the fun around here for the next couple of weeks.

[FSPress]

Yes

[marajade]

LOL... that must be the explanation...

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

We'll try to keep a log of the best quips and quotes. LOL !!!!!

[Amelia]

What is the topic of this thread?

If you don't know, maybe you're in the wrong place.

Just a friendly suggestion.

[TomServo]

We'll try to keep a log of the best quips and quotes. LOL !!!!!

No need. It's marked...:-) But thanks, anyway.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Yes

Yes, what???

I've asked several questions. I hope you don't mean, "Yes, I would take that guy in the picture seriously."

[TLBSHOW]

All I would like to see is this Republican President stops being a liberal Clinton, I didn't fight to see George Bush elected in 2000 and to have him turn around and kiss the rats bttt at every turn. Let alone keeping Clintons agenda moving right along and then some. Call me names all you want it still does not change the fact Bush would sign this bill as Ari says he will.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Any time, amigo. ;*)

[Dane]

I can't believe it tonite... They are all over the place making false claims on tons of threads? Is there a full moon and I don't know about it?

Nah they are just killing time tonight at the Ardmore, OK, Holiday Inn.

[marajade]

LOL... I heard one of them got arrested... what was that all about?

[deport]

Call me names all you want it still does not change the fact Bush would sign this bill as Ari says he will.

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And what is neat is that come May 1, 2004 you are going to be rah rah rahing for this President to be reelected on Nov. 4.... I know because you said so. Glad you can support him.... so does that make you two faced? Bitch and complain, call him a liberal but then do all you can to get him elected in 04?

[Amelia]

All I would like to see is this Republican President stops being a liberal Clinton, I didn't fight to see George Bush elected in 2000 and to have him turn around and kiss the rats bttt at every turn.

You probably voted for Gore.

Bush is NOT going to sign the bill, because it's never going to get to his desk. Everyone knows it's not going to make it through the House, which is why Schumer is squawling like a mashed cat.

Even YOU know the bill is not going to pass, but you're taking the liberal media spin and using it to criticize the President - WHY?

[Fred Mertz]

And I won't apologize for supporting the President of the United States.

That means you support the Clinton AWB ban too?

[FSPress]

Democrats....Bush Key on Assault Weapons

[deport]

WHY?

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Because that's his job.... good paying job

[Howlin]

You and I have discussed this before, and you know damn well I do NOT support that ban.

Nice try though.

[TLBSHOW]

Do something more than witch about me. Get ready for this weeks rat attack instead. I am not your enemy.

Google Saxby Chambliss at google news.