[Dan from Michigan]

Of course, the irony is that when Bill Clinton made recess appointments people here called him a b******. Now Bush is a genius.

1. Bush showed me a yellow stripe. It's a game of chicked. He blinked.
2. As for the recess appointments, I'm all for it. It's a bastardly thing to do, sure. It's legal though, and constitutional as well. I call that part paybacks.
3. With CFR, once again, here comes the NRA(The REAL civil rights group) to try to save the day.

[Beenliedto]

here comes the NRA(The REAL civil rights group) to try to save the day.

Yessir, that's correct....

I just wish that the NRA would encourage us to vote the 2nd Amendment as a litmus test, tho.

[ArneFufkin]

I know I'm redundant, but any marketing blitzes by the NRA in the last days of an election are worthless.

Either you care about the gun issue, and you vote that way, or you don't. Those in the former can be informed over 60 days prior to the election and they will vote accordingly. You can block out the sun with a locust like airdrop of NRA voting guides to the latter, and they won't care and will probably be annoyed.

I want the NRA to be involved in crafting Statewide legislation in real political bodies ... their campaign efforts are a black hole. NOBODY .... NOBODY .... is going to change their vote after some Monday night epipheny. "Holy shit! Carl Levin is against guns??? WHAT THE ....????"

There are countless limitations to your, mine and everyone's free speech during campaigns. Campaigns are strictly regulated, they always have been, and this 60 day blockade is no more an attack on my 1st Amendment rights than is my $1000 limit on direct contributions ... or a candidate's prohibition from advertising or campaigning on election day ... or the prohibition on a candidate's campaigning on government property ... or the limits on a candidate's independent fundraising to be eligible for taxpayer provided "matching funds" ... or the restraints on the places and times of my brochure handouts ... etc. etc. etc.

This is nothing. I pledged to JimRob that I'd donate $200 smackas if Bush vetoed it ... I wanted to. I preferred that he did veto this just to give McCain the old Steely Dan.

But I give the man I vote for President a proxy to make political decisions ... whoa, hang on cowboys - even change his strategy! ... based on my trust in his wise judgement and his view of the political environment at hand. That's life in the real world, politics and such.

"I'm going to tear my Bush bumper sticker off my car, and suffocate myself with it while I sit in that same running car in my closed doored garage after I've gobbled radon looking asbestos and tasty lead paint chips ... Hold the boat Joseph Hazeltine ... the "Ms. Fitness Hopkins" pageant is on Community Channel 14? Hey, there's plenty of time to die, but to watch emaciated and breast enhanced jumping jacks?"

[NittanyLion]

As for the recess appointments, I'm all for it. It's a bastardly thing to do, sure. It's legal though, and constitutional as well. I call that part paybacks.

As am I. Recess appointments are provided for in the Constitution. I'm just challenging some folks around here to show a bit of consistency, instead of falling in line behind the GOP and supporting the same things they condemned in a Dem.