Badnarik will get my vote. From alienating so much of his conservative base, Bush will lose the election. And civil war will probably result.
The future just got a lot bleaker. I've already e-mailed my Reps and Senators for all the good it'll do.
I'm afraid I must agree with all of your points.
It is tied up in the Judiciary Committe now and will probably stay there.
You're a fool, plain and simple. You know damn well AWB won't make it out of Congress.
Bush said he'll sign it - but he said it because it took an issue out of the hands of the gun grabbers and left them totally naked and defenseless. If Bush knew that the bill had a chance to pass both bodies of Congress he would have said he'd veto it. Now the gun-grabbers can't piss and moan at Bush, and Bush is not obligated to tell Congress to pass AWB - he said he'll sign it - IF IT REACHES HIS DESK. He didn't say he was going to move heaven and earth to get it to his desk.
Again, people continue to underestimate Bush.
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