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.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Uh, you were talking about TLB. His weight shouldn't be an issue in a political forum, and your lack of empathy is telling.

I beg your pardon!!! Did I say that? How cruel of you to assume that.

Apparently you are the one who decided the image was meant to depict reality. It must be because it resembles YOUR image of him.

Phew....... with friends like you, he sure doesn't need enemies.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I do the same thing, except I call people "kiddo". Drives them nuts.

[TLBSHOW]

Fred can inspect the house for ya when he comes upstate! If it really matters that much to ya!

[Howlin]

Say I'm a loon all you want; you're still a liar.

[TLBSHOW]

sweetie you are transparent!

[Fred Mertz]

What's it to you? Why are you here?

[Sir Gawain]

Like I said, whatever helps you sleep at night.

[deport]

I don't care one way or the other where you keep your pizza. Maybe you carry it around from room to room with you.....

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Excellent, excellent question.

[nunya bidness]

Here's a hint: When you bring up someone else's sadness and misfortune to make a point you reduce her suffering. Do all of us a favor and don't bring up someone's loss as a ready prop to support your tired argument.

It's disrespectful and shameful. It should end now. Flamewar, points, or otherwise.

[Fred Mertz]

You haven't taken my advice yet. If you weren't registered or INACTIVE to vote, who cares?

[ApesForEvolution]

"Like I have said before this goes wayback and from what I have seen and read, it is Todd and Fred who have created the bad blood."

Your intellectually dishonest Bushbotism hasn't helped much Dane...

[TLBSHOW]

why are you here everyday propping the 10 up?

[Howlin]

If you weren't registered or INACTIVE to vote, who cares?

Obviously you do. That's the second time you've brought it up in a month.

You know the truth, but you continue to post the lie. Feel like a big man, Fred?

I sure hope you don't have any children, Fred.

[justshe]

And that is what I meant by Fred hitting below the belt...and stabbing you in the back when he gets cornered.

I have seen Fred bring up this 'registration' issue multiple times....and I have seen Howlin explain it multiple times.....which would be TOTALLY UNNECESSARY if it were not for the nasty, despicable, dirty tactics used by Fred to attack someone in an area they are MOST vulnerable. A the death of a child could certainly be considered a vulnerability.

A real man....I spit on him.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Don't try to lay your guilt on me. You made an assumption because you figured a picture of a fat guy somehow resembled your friend in real life. That's yours to squirm out of.

I have never met him. I guess you have.

[ApesForEvolution]

It can be said enough: Way to go Dubya. /sarcasm

[Howlin]

It's disrespectful and shameful. It should end now.

Then why are you talking to Daughter about it? She's not the one who keeps brining it up.

Fred does.

[TLBSHOW]

LOLROF

and to think you 10 are the President of the United States biggest supporters.