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.
I agree there. We COULD if we are lucky get the primary tri-fecta if all goes right and send 3 ASD'ers home. MCRGO is going to get involved with Dingell on this. I know that for a fact.
Dingell is our top priority(I'm talking strictly gun rights) in this primary on fed offices. Dingell is favored, especially with Monroe County(blue dogs), but it is not a gimme by any stretch of the imagination since much of his old downriver base was swallowed up by the Detroit districts. Rivers has her Ann Arbor district mostly in tact. AGE is the scary issue here.
Two other ones. Incumbent Fred Upton vs State Senator Dale Shugars. Shugars is term limited and decided to take on liberal GOP'er Upton. We could win this one with a good turnout.
Dem incumbents Jim Barcia vs Dale Kildee. This will be the toughest. Kildee has Flint. Barcia is from Bay City and loses most of his district. Both are union dems, but Kildee is more well known. Kildee is STAUNCH ASD, and Barcia is STAUNCH Pro-2a. Ironically, both are pro-life dems.
Really? Why don't we just have Bush sign it. Then the NRA will immediately file suit for a hearing before the Supreme Court and they will find that it is unConstitutional. If this is supposed to work for CFR then why not for the unConstitutional infringement of the right to keep and bear arms?