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To: Revtwo; o_zarkman44
This is what I have been fearing, a proclamation by executive order. Why fight a battle in the Senate and the House, embarrassing oneself by having no bipartisan support, when one can just legislate with a stroke of the pen?

It is good to be king, sayeth the beast.

3 posted on 02/16/2009 5:44:10 PM PST by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Sender
This is what I have been fearing, a proclamation by executive order. Why fight a battle in the Senate and the House, embarrassing oneself by having no bipartisan support, when one can just legislate with a stroke of the pen?

It's not exactly THAT easy. Any such Executive Order has to be published in the Federal Register and from the moment of publication the Congress has 90 days to object. I suspect there are a number of democrats who would have quite a bit to say since they were elected on the basis of being pro-gun & pro-life from districts that previously went Republican for a good many years. The DNC turned a blind eye to their conservatism in order to take advantage of anger against GWB and capture the seat. But these freshmen congresscritters have been pretty outspoken on being pro 2nd Amendment. For example one had the temerity to demand that the administration's choice for American ambassador to the UN would resist any attempt by the UN to ram thru any sort of gun control treaties... Coulda knocked me over with a feather when I read that! Must be giving Pelosi and company a bad case of acid reflux!

7 posted on 02/16/2009 8:34:51 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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