Yesterday, a slightly different statement was made by Rep. DeLay. This time, he said that the votes for an *expansion* of the AW ban were not there. That sure sounds like he's backing away from his previous statement. Add in Denny Hastert sitting in his favorite spot - on the fence - and it smells like a recipe for compromise. "But... we prevented anything *worse* from being passed! You should be thanking us!" - that's what the Reps who sell us out - again - will say (in unison).
Perhaps we should call the Speaker's office and ask to speak to Tom Foley...
I'm working on a much better way to put the scare into them. Their happiest boast is that gun owners and personal defense advocates have nowhere to go but the Republican candidates, at least until the Democrats wise up and begin running a few of their own who'll back a rollback of Second Amendment infringements. I have a couple of ideas about sticking pins in that particular balloon, in a way that should give them as much pause as the one vote in five that was cast for Ross Perot...which took Bush I out of the White House after his *Read my lips-No New Taxes* promise was broken and he handed gun owners an import ban and the Ruby Ridge and Waco atrocities. [Yeah, I know Waco took place during the Clinton administration's early days- but it was planned and set up on Bush I's watch and under his command and control]
-archy-/-