Posted on 05/14/2003 2:32:06 PM PDT by 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.
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You seem to suck up to the wimmin, howling. What does that tell me?
Damn!
It tells me, uhh..., you're fat! Wow this is easy!
My opinion is that it looks like a whole lot of people are blowing a piece of leftist anti-Bush propaganda (published, by the socialist/marxist Washington Post, no less) all out of proportion. Looks like a whole lot of anti-Republicans are gleefully jumping onto the Washington Post's leftist Bush bashing bandwagon. My advice to those who are so happy to bash Bush and the Republicans ought to be very careful who they go to bed with. Destroy the momentum currently building for one of the very rare conservative led governments in all of U.S. history and they're liable to wake up with a real gun-grabbing socialist whore, ahem, as in Hillary Clinton, in the White House.
No wonder conservatives can't make any real headway in government. As soon as the momentum starts building, out come the hand-wringing doom and gloom naysayers, for whom no conservative is good enough, to smear and destroy any and all progress made to date by the Republicans, and by doing so, reinstalling the leftist liberals to their socialist government command posts.
And the downward spiral to socialist hell spins on.
Time to break the cycle by not surrendering to the left or to the well-meaning, but misguided right-wing naysayers. Continue the Republican conservative revolution. Dump the RATS!
BTW, it's a real laugher when right-wingers start allying themselves with known leftists (International Answer, for example) and then have the audacity to accuse conservative FReepers of being "statists." Many of these same "right-wing conservatives" (probably mostly Buchanites or self-labeled so-called "paleocons") have openly allied themselves with the marxists, communists, anarchists, and other anti-war Hollywood type leftists against Bush, against defending America, against defending freedom, and against Republicanism in general. FReepers are statists for backing Bush? Yeah, right. By that same logic, that would make Buchanan and his paleocon followers marxists, or in the very least, useful idiots, for supporting the Washington Post and the real unAmerican, freedom hating Hollywood anti-war gun-grabbing left, et al.
"We have met the enemy and he are us." The paleocons are fond of using this Pogoism as applied to mainstream conservatives, but, in many cases, I'd say the finger points right back at them. The anti-Republican conservatives seem to be the enemy of sustained conservative government.
I'm a liberty minded individual who backs the Constitution and the Bill of Rights 100%, but there is no way that I'm going to dump Bush or dump the Republican majority. Not now. Not ever. The momentum is building and will continue to build. If we want to remove liberalism and socialism from our government and restore constitutional limits, etc., then, IMHO, we cannot possibly allow the Democrats to regain control. Reelecting president Bush, and gaining larger majorities in the House, the Senate, and the Judiciary and also in state and local governments is a must if we are ever to retake America and our Liberty. This is my goal for the coming election cycle and beyond.
Naysayers be damned. Full speed ahead!
1,168 posted on 04/17/2003 2:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (FReepers are the GReatest!!)
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