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.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Actually, I don't think that way. Sorry you had to go through that phase, though, I really am.

Now you're in a phase where you think all people younger than you are idiots, right?

[Howlin]

I need to ask you something that was in a book I read last week; thanks for showing up to remind me I need to freepmail you!

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

.....and I'm trying to tell you that, while I am offended by that, it is not me who needs to hear that you're sorry.

I accept your apology. I don't think the other one that's owed comes in the form of a post.

[Travis McGee]

Anytime.

[deport]

I don't stand with liberal democrats or issues that advance liberal democrats, sorry unlike you I don't stand with the rats. Ie the Trent Lott affair.

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But you are going to stand with President Bush on May 1, 2004.... maybe even have some Pizza and Fox News. Correct

[TLBSHOW]

lol heck you have posted it enough but since the traitor Grover still has his ear post on...my dear!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Fred, do "well-read" people in your circle generally know how to spell?

[Sir Gawain]

Spare us the holiness routine. I'm sure you've already asked for forgiveness for the fat jokes. Mote and all that...

[justshe]

Only if he ever gets a television set.

[Howlin]

I call resorting to vicious personal attacks childish

Do you think that calling the sitting president of the United States a traitor is a vicious personal attack?

Do you think we should all just sit here and let him post those vile remarks on this site and not say ONE word about it?

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Speaking of cut and paste...

Pretty weak, sweetheart. I cited the profanity. Nothing more was necessary. That WAS the point.

[Fred Mertz]

Now you're in a phase where you think all people younger than you are idiots, right?

That's why you should reveal nothing of your personal life. Howling was INACTIVE for awhile, but that's another story.

I'm old, fat and bald and that's the story I'm sticking to.

[deport]

Only if he ever gets a television set.

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Oh I think he has one so he can watch tapes.....

While he eats his Pizza and awaits May 1, 2004

[Howlin]

I wasn't flattering myself, you dolt. I was merely pointing out that if you don't READ it somewhere else, the things that spout from YOUR keyboard written by YOU are vacuous.

[Dane]

Well, it's good that most well-read people know that you're a dipstick

Case in point Cathryn. Ol Fred is being his old and lame insulting self tonight.

[FSPress]

What the heck are you talking about? Missed where you're going with that.

[Cathryn Crawford]

You're absolutely right.

[Howlin]

I've lost count of the profanity.

Enough for me to see it's not worth reading.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I didn't expect you to comprehend the difference between abusing the name of Jesus and fat jokes. Nice try, though.

[TLBSHOW]

Waht part of I never called Bush a traitor don't you understand. Parrot!