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.

[Howlin]

Count up the ones on that thread that were mocking you, Todd.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I'm young and obviously stupid due to my youth, so I guess I'll stick to that. Oh well, I'm used to it.

[TLBSHOW]

Now now dear I must have my own thoughts and words or you 10 would not be so upset with me. You would be upset with Rush and Ann. LOL

[deport]

It is the TV signal that is missing. Too bad.

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Yes, he posted once about them supposed to come out next week and get cable hooked up.... guess it never happened... but heck May 1, 2004 is a ways off and lots of pizza can be eaten before then.....

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

It is you who has decided that the fat jokes are somehow more grievous than others. Why is that? Do you know something we don't?

What is offensive about a sumo wrestler? Do you know someone who looks like that? Do you look like that?

Nope.......no sin here. I posted a funny picture in answer to a question about a fight. Nothing more.

[TLBSHOW]

If I cared what people think I would not be where I am today!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Don't let him get to you, Howlin. He's just trying to push your personal buttons - the fact that you lost a son doesn't deter him. There's a small gang of groin-kickers around here, and there is no bottom to their pit. They want you push you to the point where you will say something that will result in your suspension or banning, imo. (I've got one who tries to do it to me all the time.)

[Sir Gawain]

I don't understand why the sumo guy and someone's Jenny Craig joke would offend anyone............unless it implied some kind of truth. Who knows?????

Uh, you were talking about TLB. His weight shouldn't be an issue in a political forum, and your lack of empathy is telling. You make a fat joke about an overweight person, and you actually think it wouldn't offend them? Surely you're feigning ignorance here. I refuse to believe you're that dumb.

[TLBSHOW]

The war was too quick deport unlike you I don't have tv hooked up in every room!

[Fred Mertz]

I told you that myself PERSONALLY, Fred. Why do you CONTINUE TO BRING UP MY SON'S DEATH??????????

You're a freakin' LOON. Nice try, though.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Just so you know, I don't know anything about that. So you don't think I'm being heartless, too. I'm really not, you know.

[deport]

I don't have tv hooked up in every room!

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I know;...... just pizza....

[Sir Gawain]

I posted a funny picture in answer to a question about a fight. Nothing more.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[TLBSHOW]

No I keep that in the kitchen!

[Fred Mertz]

I'm going to say it again, you are a freaking LOON.

Most gentle readers will see it.

[justshe]

Which is exactly WHERE? Where are you, Todd?

[deport]

You couldn't prove that by me. Got a link or some cut/paste to prove it.

[Dan from Michigan]

I've gotten the age remarks too. I just call those that give them out "son" regardless of their age. A few democrats at a political rally got red in the face over it.

[Howlin]

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

I will tell you so you will know the truth.

When my son died, my ex-husband took his car, which was registered in my name; he sold it without having the inspection that was due at the time of my son's death.

Unknown to me, the DMV put a hold on my driver's license until I cleared up the problem with the inspection -- and because there was a "hold" on renewing my driver's license, when I tried to move my registration from one county to another, they put me down as INACTIVE because my driver's license number showed up as invalid. In fact, when Registerd posted that "fact" that I was NOT A REGISTERED voter here on FR one night, thinking he'd make a fool out of me, I didn't even KNOW about the hold on my driver's license. It was cleared up within days. As it turned out, he was dead wrong.

Fred knows the truth, but when he has nothing else to add, he loves to keep bringing up a nasty incident that happened when my son died.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Nothing is reasonable when you're dealing with the bushbots. Watch and learn."

To what end, Fred? Why do you spend so much time on this forum? You know full well this forum is mostly bushbots, why are you here everyday, propping Toddy up?