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.

[Godebert]

"Even the new president of the NRA says this is a tempest in a teapot, egged on by extremist. "

Source and direct quote please.

[Howlin]

How would he know about Fox News?

[Fred Mertz]

Look up "distort", then read this thread. LOL

Thanks again.

[TLBSHOW]

Yep my side issue this week is planning for a visit from Fred Mertz.

[Howlin]

Give it a rest. You've gotten all you're going to get out of me on that subject.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

It's okay. I'd be embarrassed with that tagline too. I know you can't change it now and make it obvious.

I bet the "lay-dees" are just swooning over the thought of you and the riverboat lovebirds. ROFLOL !!!!!!!!!!

[Howlin]

I'm sure that went right over your head.

[TLBSHOW]

We know because you cannot back up your lie.

[Howlin]

You cannot possibly think we are interested in your personal life, do you?

This is NOT a game where we're all friends at the end.

[deport]

How would he know about Fox News?

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I have no idea how he'd know..... but it's on his home page.....

Pizza and Fox News.

[Sir Gawain]

Honestly, I'm embarrassed that your handlers let you play on the computer this long. Why would I want to change my tagline? It's just a funny quote from Major Payne. Get a grip.

[Howlin]

We know because you cannot back up your lie.

I'm surprised God didn't strike you dead when you posted that.............ROLFMAO. You've never backed up ONE SINGLE STATEMENT you have personally made on this forum, not counting your parroting of people who actually have brains.

[Godebert]

Give it a rest. You've gotten all you're going to get out of me on that subject.

Which is nada, zip, nil, nothing and "I saw it on TV".

[Fred Mertz]

This is NOT a game where we're all friends at the end.

Huh? Like that other poster said, take your evening meds. ROFL

[TomServo]

I'm surprised God didn't strike you dead when you posted that.............

Entertainment value...

[Howlin]

I guess you missed this part:

Little did I know that the prelude to disaster had begun. TLBSHOW was yet to be and TLBSHOW was the farthest thing from my mind.

Whew. Heavy.

[Walkingfeather]

PLEASE FOLKS... think for a second. Bush is spending political capitol. He knows/knew that the bill would not make it out of congress and the congress knows it is best for the party for him to oppose. Because the deflation of the democratic firestorm is worth more than irritating a few people since the end game is already set. This bill is dead and pres. Bush gets to deny the Dems a huge propaganda tool against him. HE IS GENIUS.

[Howlin]

If only I cared what you thought, Fred.