Hit from the left flank. Hit from the right flank. Pincer attack, it's over. John Edwards wins.
Most of the public don't care about CFR. The MEDIA only does. Bush signs this bill that slaps gunowners and the right in the face. Most of the right doesn't trust Bush's dad, and comparisons are going to be made again.
If he signs a gun ban too, it's over for good. 1992 all over again.
At this point, setting it up for a decades-long kill is preferable. I'll say again, look at how long Roe v. Wade has been around despite efforts to change it.
This guy has learned from the mistakes, not only from his father, but also of Newt Gingrich. He's got to walk a tightrope, and right now, we don't have the margins to play a hardball game. We're gonna have to get the Dems to overreach once or twice.
Because I can draw three or four plausible scenarios as to how a veto would have gone down. I expect that Common Cause will be largely left on its own for this case, with Olson only defending the disclosure provisions and the increase in hard money contribution limits. The rest is dead legislation walking.
As for the semiauto ban in 2004, the best bet is to kill that puppy in the House. If I were you, I'd make sure Dingell beats Rivers this year in the primary, or we won't have the ability to replicate the successful killing of the gun show ban back in June of `99.
In fact, I think replicating that strategy is the only hope we have of killing the renewal of the semi-auto ban.
Only this time we give control to socialists with the power to jail you over what you say about them. If Bush is defending America's Freedom thrn he never did drugs either.