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.

[TLBSHOW]

hundreds! LOL

more like the 10 and only because of your spinning.

[deport]

Dogs on the Grill...... you mean this one...... DEEP mand DEEP.....

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dogs on the grill


Your Opinion/Questions Miscellaneous
Published: 4/29/2001 Author: TLBSHOW
Posted on 04/29/2001 01:15:47 PDT by TLBSHOW

dogs on the grill or how was your day? What did FReepers do that made today really great. Do you want to share?

*QUESTION/OPINION/THREAD*

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I cooked hot dogs on the grill for my family and ate lunch. Watched the kids play in the neighborhood. Home dad sitter type thing a lot. I love watching the kids grow up. Ok your turn.

1 Posted on 04/29/2001 01:15:47 PDT by TLBSHOW
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[Dan from Michigan]

So you are forcing them on US? Thanks a lot!

You're welcome!! :)

[A Citizen Reporter]

It's so obvious what you add to the conservative "discourse" from your tagline!

[Howlin]

I think your characterization of Gaffney and the Center's opinion on this issue is completely wrong and your accusations that Bush is a traitor is way over the top.

259 posted on 02/19/2003 6:12 PM EST by Jim Robinson (

[Howlin]

Hmmm.....you're awfully anxious to get rid of them; I think we should be suspicious!

[Jonez712]

I agree 100%. Whenever conservatives make a "vote of conscience", we all get screwed. Look at what votes for Perot got us.

Exactly. Perot and his supporters became a tool of the Democratic Party, and paved the way for Clinton's reign of terror.

It will be a bad thing for conservativism in this country if another conservative rival to the Republican Party rises up.

[TLBSHOW]

the fact is you were upset that the gift proved correct that what happend to the spsce shuttle was what I said. So you took a dead thread and spinned that I was calling Bush a traitor when the true context was that Groover was the traitor, but in your zeal to win against me you spinned and spun and pinged the 10 to say I said Bush was a traitor.

What a pathetic person you are.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Do you have any idea how long I looked for that? From now on, I'll just ask you to do my searching.....;-)

Fast food traitor!

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

[Sir Gawain]

A quote from a movie is equivalent to calling someone fat? Uh, ok. Nice try though.

[TLBSHOW]

oh for those simple days when Baseball on the lawn of the White House was in vogue and dogs on the grill. Lots of great meal ideas on that one.

[justshe]

You posted the thread, Todd, Do Right-Wingers Ever Defend Their Own?

A sentence in the first paragraph of that post says: "Do these people ever defend their own? Ever?"

You posted: "An excellent truth story."

Now tell me Todd.......were you lying when you posted 'an excellent truth story'? Because surely you see the irony here. You bash and twist almost every thing the GOP or President Bush does.

Tell me Todd, do you ever defend your own? Ever?

[deport]

Pizza and Fox News.....

May 1, 2004

[Dan from Michigan]

He're my problem with that.

Republicans are not ENTITLED to conservative or libertarian leaning votes. Bush, or anybody else for that matter, has to earn them.

I see a real 'entitlement' stance(I'm not accusing you for that) taken here and other forums by a lot of people. That will kill us, since all it will do is get a middle finger in response and drive them further to Phillips, Buchanan, or Browne.

[Fred Mertz]

That two year old thread has nothing to do with Bush continuing Clinton's weapons ban.

You're a twit.

[TLBSHOW]

He is great on the war agenda but ranks really bad on stopping the liberal agenda.

[TLBSHOW]

Now you did it, telling the truth to children.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

All I can say is you ARE "killin'" me.

[justshe]

Oh horse pucky. How can a thread be DEAD? I find threads all the time that have 'slowed'.....and are 'rejuvenated'. Get a clue...or buy a vowel.....or SOMETHING. But pull your head out of your nether regions.