Posted on 03/26/2007 12:34:48 PM PDT by Uncledave
Edited on 03/26/2007 1:31:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SENATE STAFFER BUSTED FOR CARRYING WEBB'S LOADED GUN: Phillip Thompson, executive assistant to Senator James Webb (D-VA ), has been arrested by Capitol Hill Police on Monday for 'inadvertently' holding the senator's loaded gun, according to a person close to the investigation. A Senate staffer reports that Thompson was arrested for carrying the gun in a bag through security at the Russell Senate Office building while the Senator was parking his car. Thompson was booked for carrying a pistol without a license (CPWL) and for possessing unregistered ammunition.
Statement by Jessica Smith, Webb Communications Director:
"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the Senator's aide. Phillip Thompson is a former Marine, a long-term friend and trusted employee of the Senator. We are still awaiting facts." Developing...
I don't think I ever heard the story -- but I'm already laughing.
In the District of Coercion you probably have to register your undershorts.
I THINK it was just punching him in the mouth. But nevertheless, he has expressed a desire for violence against the president and is now bringing in a loaded gun to Capitol Hill. I am curious about his schedule. What's coming up that he needs a gun? If he has a meeting at the WH or with the president, then this guy needs a very SPECIAL meeting from the SS. Has he ever been treated for or hospitalized for mental illness or anger problems?
Webb is a pro-gun democrat, a former Republican who served in Reagan's administration as "Asst. Secretary of Defense For Reserve Affairs and as Secretary Of The Navy..."
Too bad he crossed over to the dark side.
http://webb.senate.gov/
Jim Webb Threatens to 'Slug' President Bush
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1746452/posts
Just a feeling, but I'm thinking that the Capitol Hill Police might think about searching and disarming Senator Webb the next time Bush speaks on Capitol Hill.
As a practical matter being a "pro-gun" Democrat may be real at the state level. At the national level it is meaningless. By merely caucusing as Dem he is defacto supporting whatever sick anti-gun policies the majority chooses to make law. Pelosi et.al. set the agenda, he is cooperating with them having the control to do that.
So he is *effectively* a gun banning liberal lesbian, even though we all know he's an ex-Marine packing heat. That's the rough and tumble of party politics.
They have their own health care plan, their own retirement plan separate and apart from Social Security, and qualify for a pension after only one term served. Not to mention all the other perqs and the opportunity to steer all that Federal money in ways that may be beneficial to them (see Harry reid's real estate deals for an example). It's a great gig if you can stomach selling your soul to land it.
(Yeah, his Marine assistant is a fumbling bumbling moron for grabbing the wrong bag -- and sending it through the x-ray machine. Duh.)
It really irks me that all Iraqi civilians are allowed to possess one assult weapon per person -- under their constitution -- and we have to constantly fight for our own rights in the USA.
Yes.... too bad, Webb doesn't know the gun laws in D.C
He should challange it with the Supreme Court. These laws are unconstitutional and have always been.
Bill Clinton should of registered his undershorts.
Register your undershorts in DC?
Nahhh... That would impact Democrats disproportionately.
BREAKING - Aide to Sen. Webb arrested with gun at Senate office building
MSNBC is reporting that an aide to Virginia Senator James Webb was arrested at the Russell Senate Office Building by U.S. Capitol Police on Monday morning when he tried to enter the building with a handgun.
Carrying a handgun in the District of Columbia is against the law.
More details will be posted when available
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=6281015
I actually had to do that in basic -- in front of another platoon. Never made that mistake again.
They better jump on this.
You, sir, have nailed it. No doubt there were a few malcontents who wanted to "punish" the GOP ... if so it was spectacularly dumb and counter-productive.
But I have seen no facts that indicate disgruntled conservatives contributed in any significant way to the debacle. Yet that is asserted over and over by the moderate faction on here.
You correctly point out the erosion of GOP votes in the mushy middle ... because of the steady drip of "corruption" stories ... and more importantly, I think, because of the unpopularity of the Iraq war.
Yes. Precisely. Better class of people. The Ruling Elites. It's Constitutional.
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