If Bush signs an AWB, I will burn my voter I.D. and get a new one that doesn't say republican on it. We were told that he only made the promise knowing that the bill would never leave congress. He has no reason to sign it now, unless he really believes in it.
And it may not, but given the change in leadership, he may bargain with it for something much more near and dear to him, Iraq funds, judicial nominations, or withdrawing of some investigations. We'll see, but he's not holding all the cards anymore with the Democrats now controlling both houses.
Well , many of the new Dims that were elected, were elected in Republican leaning districts that won't tolerate support for more gun control. It's a far different landscape from when Klinton had the bully pulpit to push his party to support this garbage .
I would say that while the Dim leaders want a renewal, they won't allow it to come up until after '08, when they think that there will be a Dim prez and congress .