Exactly right.
But don't expect the petulant reactionaries to see passed their noses. They never do.
Posted on 01/18/2005 12:33:16 PM PST by snowsislander
Gonzales is unfit for office.
Yes, that's what we need, for Gonzales to take a "principled stand" on the AWB, propounding upon watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.
That would make you feel mighty proud.
The fact that it would get Alberto drummed out of Washington in a minute and a half by the MSM is not your concern.
So what if we win the battle but lose the war, as long as you get to feel good?
Yeah, yeah, brilliant strategy. Instead of advocating the correct position, advocate the INCORRECT one, and trust that Congress won't send it up. Worked so well with CFR.
It is the Presidents job to make it clear that he would veto any bill that infringed on our RKBA's..
That's precisely what Gonzales should have done -- stated that it was not his place to take sides on a purely political question.
He absolutely should not have sabotaged the GOP side by offering red-mean anti-gun-rights quotes, but that's exactly what he gratuitously chose to do.
Yes, that's what we need, for Gonzales to take a "principled stand" on the AWB, propounding upon watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.
That would make you feel mighty proud, wouldn't it?
The fact that it would get Alberto drummed out of Washington in a minute and a half by the MSM is not your concern.
So what if we win the battle but lose the war, as long as you get to feel good?
"Have you ever been in a job interview and told the man what he wanted to hear?"
There is a little more at stake here then some ambitious applicant fluffing up a resume.
Exactly right.
But don't expect the petulant reactionaries to see passed their noses. They never do.
Good to know prior to any judicial opening: we don't need another Dave Souter.
That's because they have their noses so high in the air.
More fear mongering from the politically expedient. Gonzales made himself clear, he is a "symbolic" gun grabber.
There is no stomach for gun control legislation in Congress, nobody's even talking about gun control legislation, yet you continue to bait with one statement that Gonzales made in a throw-away line.
Why? You think the kool aid drinkers won't support him anyway? Haven't you heard? GWB is infallible. Bow to his will.
With a keyword search and a few minutes you could probably find out for sure.
You think Tom Delay controls Congress? Keep whistling, -- & dreaming.
Actually, Tom DeLay DOES control the House of Representatives. Surely you know that.
You're bordering on paranoia.
How is it paranoid to claim that one man does not control Congress?
-- Or, - to want ALL Congressmen & Executive officials to honor their oaths to our Constitution?
Not a wise arguement. Sidetracking your true convictions to please the MSM is not the way to go. Which I'll wager is not what Mr. Gonzales is doing.
No, it sunset. Big difference. It required the Congress to do NOTHING, something they excel at. A repeal would have required fortitude and purposeful action, in other words it would never have happened.
What a joke. When in your lifetime have you seen ANYTHING prevent the left from demagoguing. The notion is divorced from reality. Now that he and the president are on the record as supporting the ban, they are totally at the whim of the Congress. Which, considering GW's veto pen is still in the wrapper, is nothing new.
An attitude like that will get you a real gun grabber come next election.
We just witnessed it with the sunset of the AWB.
Ari Fleischer (not Bush) said the President would sign it if it hit his desk, but it didn't because the press had no easy target to attack over the issue.
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