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The anti-gunners need to face facts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1185394/posts?page=7

Let the AWB sunset.

Oh, I agree, it should -- and plenty of other nonsense should be rolled back too. But, as a former "broken glass Republican", I've got that "elephant never forgets" thing going for me ;)

So, I still remember Bob Dole's sticking it to us, and it helping cost him the election. As I recall, he said his office was getting something like 2000 phone calls a day, the vast majority of which were urging him to vote against the travesty.

He voted for it.

That was the last time I wasted MY time and money calling a legislimer.

I have grown quite cynical in my half-century+ on this ball o' mud.

The way I see it, the RAT party is the party of PUSH, PUSH, PUSH, and the "G"OP is the party of COMPROMISE, COMPROMISE, COMPROMISE.

The thing is, when one side is always pushing, and the other side is always compromising, well... if you adjust the imagery a tad (think "pull" instead of "push") and picture a tug o' war, there's gonna be one side ending up in the mud -- and that WON'T be the side that applies constant pressure. It'll be the side that's constantly compromising.

What we have now are the results of decades of constant compromise.

Frankly, I'm not interested in any politician who promises me MORE compromise.

I want a politician with some GUTS.

I want a politician who will PUSH.

But, I'm screwed.

It seems that the only politicians who will stick to their guns (har har har, funny, eh?), and PUSH, PUSH, PUSH, and refuse to COMPROMISE... the ONLY politicans with the guts -- with the balls to the wall nerve -- are pushing in the wrong direction!

This is very disconcerting!

So, yeah, as your link shows, politicians who stab their constituents in the back end up looking for a new job.

But, that doesn't seem to stop them from stabbing their constituents in the back. Nor does it -- as a rule -- stop their replacements from stabbing us in the back either.

It's very disconcerting!

It's like we keep saying "they're really gonna get taught a lesson on election day if they screw with us" -- so, they screw with us -- and they get taught the lesson on election day -- and then "here comes the new boss, same as the old boss" -- and we get screwed again.

I know that we're looking at something like, what is it, five "legislative days" left in this session, with "no time available for scheduling" this abortion of a bill?

Well, that is no comfort to me.

I know that politicians can move heaven and earth (or, some substitute for heaven, as the case may be;) when they want to get something done on short notice.

Look at the "Patriot Act". THEY didn't!

It got dropped in front of them, the call went out to VOTE -- without reading it -- so, they voted for it.

They spend more time debating what color to paint the new carpet than they spent discussing the Patriot Act.

It's amazing -- and disgusting. And it makes "how sausage is made" into something that looks really appetizing, by way of comparison.

Will the AWB sunset?

Maybe. I certainly HOPE so. And, if it does sunset, I hope it STAYS sunset, and doesn't do a Count Dracula on us come first thing next session.

But frankly, given the history, the thing that gives me the least assurance at this stage is the "only five legislative days left" situation.

These bozos specialize in pulling rabbits out of their hats. Ask any farmer who just planted a cornfield.

(A little agriculture-lagomorph-argh! humor this fine morning...)