What's a Fudd?
A Fudd (from Elmer Fudd, the cartoon character) is a gun person who is a member of the NRA but whose only concern is hunting. And nothing else. All Fudds care about is that they be allowed to keep their hunting firearms. Glocks? Black rifles? AKs? They're embarrassed by those 'gun nuts' and their 'arsenals.' They think those wackos give the NRA a bad name. They don't believe anyone but cops need a pistol that holds 17 rounds or a rifle that holds 30. Go ahead, ban handguns and ARs. Whatever. They couldn't care less. Fudds believe the second amendment is there to protect their right to go deer hunting. They'll fight tooth and nail against anyone who dares try to take their deer rifle or shotgun! In the end, though, they'll agree to register their rifles and pay a yearly fee just so long as they get to go hunting this fall.
That's many of your fellow Republicans.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or even self defense. Those two things are a bi product of the 2nd Amendment, not it’s primary purpose.
These people are going to be thrown out of office in the next election or two.
If they want to be Democrat Lite, no point in keeping them around; we might as well have the real deal.
The GOP establishment is looking to get burned. Like the Democrats, they think the American people are stupid.
And you know as well as I do, a party that makes fools out of people is going to find itself full of regrets.
Boner and McConman should understand power and glory are fleeting.
IMO the headline misstates the issue...the “GOP leadership” was NEVER with us.
I have to believe that Senators Sessions, Cruz, Lee, Vitter (and hopefully at least 20 others) are strategizing with their House counterparts (Gohmert, Chabot, King, Duncan, Blackburn and over 100 others) on ways to outflank their "leadership" over this capitulation.
I am going to make a point of remembering what a “Fudd” is - I meet too many of them in my travels.
That name will be used far and wide.
Indeed. They like to be this waterfowl managed by the state, bringing in illegals and diversity... it is disgusting.
A long time ago.
Posted on December 10, 2014 by Ammoland
WILL GUN POLICY BE SET BY THIS ANTI-GUN CONGRESS?
On guns, there will be both pro-gun and anti-gun provisions which will be carried forward from previous years.
But if we could just delay writing the bill till January — when Republicans will control both the House and the Senate — there is so much more we could do:
◦We could push to eliminate the Schumer amendment, which prohibits non-violent Americans who have made mistakes from EVER getting their gun rights back.
◦We could stop the ATF from creating regional gun registries by copying 4473’s during routine annual inspections.
◦We could put the “kibosh” on the anti-gun aspects of ObamaCare, including the entering of gun-related information in the federally run health database.
Instead, we are faced with a Boehner-Pelosi “December surprise” which effectively gives Obama a pass with respect to all of his illegal actions on guns and immigration.
And what about last Thursday’s House vote, where Republicans declared, in effect, that they were very, very angry that Obama had stripped them of their powers? MSNBC’s Sam Stein put it pretty well when he said this was just a Boehner trick to allow hapless Republicans to “show their rage … without undermining everything we have to do.”
One more thing — and that is the precedent this may create for Boehner’s actions during the 114th Congress which is coming up: According to Politico’s Glenn Thrush, there is an open question as to whether a Boehner-Pelosi deal to crush Republicans could cause Boehner to “acknowledge reality and actually start passing bigger, more important pieces of legislation [like an anti-gun amnesty] using this across-the-aisle Nancy Pelosi thing….”
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“we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it ...”
This is a very good point.
The Democrats have become a fighting party because their “base” forms a strong majority of their voters.
What people here refer to as the GOP “base” is no more than 30%, maybe not even 25%, of Republican voters. This “base” can lose elections, but they can’t win elections.
The bacon-wrapped shrimp club, known as Congress, ain’t for you and me, no more.