Posted on 06/26/2009 10:23:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Washington, DC - -(AmmoLand.com)- Imagine that. The Senate confirmed this week, by a vote of 62-35, a gun banner who stays up at night thinking of ways to impose more gun control upon American citizens.
Harold Koh is that gun grabber, and he was confirmed yesterday to be the Legal Adviser at the State Department.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans attempted to kill the Koh nomination with a filibuster — until eight of them crossed the aisle to help Democrats confirm Koh.
The back-stabbing Senators are:
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Susan Collins (R-ME) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Richard Lugar (R-IN) Mel Martinez (R-FL) Olympia Snowe (R-ME) George Voinovich (R-OH) Once the filibuster was thwarted, Koh’s nomination passed easily. The vote on final passage can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/m4m2f5
Koh is eager to assume his post at the State Department, having lamented that there is only so much that can be done from the outside to push gun control treaties, and that ultimately we need people like him in positions of power. The chief lawyer for the State Department is just the position someone like him needs to push more gun control through international treaties.
GOA will continue watching for any attempt by the Obama administration to foist an international gun control treaty upon the citizens of the U.S.
Please stay tuned.
Don’t Let Your Senators Escape the Heat of the Spotlight!
If you have been watching the news, you have no doubt seen stories on the health care debate. This is the topic de jour on Capitol Hill, and Congress is ramping up to vote on a bill in a few weeks.
Last week, GOA alerted you to the fact that the whole health care issue has become a Trojan Horse for gun control, among other things.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Koh is eager to... to push gun control ... someone like him needs to push more gun control through international treaties.Here's my idea of 'International Gun Control'....
It's hitting your target from 500 yards with iron sights.
okay, 400 yards, I'm getting old :-)
Looks like you are correct. The information in the article doesn’t match with the official vote. What’s up with GAO? They need to get their facts straight.
"All throughout American history, the rifleman has been defined as a marksman capable of hitting a man-sized target from 500 yards away — no ifs, ands or buts about it. This 500-yard range is traditionally known as "the rifleman's quarter-mile;" a rifleman can hit just about any target he can see. This skill was particulary evident in the birth of our country, and was the difference in winning the Revolutionary War.However, I better clarify something in my post #21 asap.What's a rifleman?
In short, a rifleman is an armed American, trained in the tradition of American Liberty. It's a man who has learned to shoot a rifle accurately — accurate enough to score "expert" on the Army Qualification Course. Until you can do that, you're considered a "Cook," unprepared and unqualified to carry a rifle on the firing line of freedom.
I ain't no stinking 'Cook', not even at 60, almost 61. ;-)
I will be voting against Lugar from now on.
These push-overs need to be voted out in 2010.
There isn’t going to be anything recognizable about this Country by then...
Your link to the roll call vote has Lamar Alexander as a Nay, not Yea. I retract my earlier comment about Lamar Alexander, although he failed to support the Coburn Amendement for concealed carry privileges in national parks. Thanks for linking the roll call vote.
Lugar (R-IN), Martinez (R-FL), Collins (R-ME), Voinovich (R-OH) and Snowe (R-ME) were the defectors after my personal inspection of the roll call vote. I have to wonder about your source for the story.
They also bear false witness to Gregg (R-NH) and Hatch (R-UT) who voted Nay.
I voted against him last November (the “None of the Above” candidate). I’ve had quite enough of him.
I didn’t check the roll call vote before posted. I see the same as you.
Looks like Alexander, Gregg and Hatch voted NAY.
We can expect the same bunch to stab us in the back over Cap and Trade, with the possible exception of Hatch. But with the possible addition of other "moderates" as well. Maybe even McLame.
They aren’t getting people’s guns without getting the lead in them first. Let them eat cake or lead.
You know, I’d rather have Boxer and Feinstein as my Senators than Snowe and Collins.
Go ahead, Koh, kick that hornets nest!
I, too, am disturbed about the trend Alexander has been taking of late. He hasn’t always been that way. I get the feeling he’s being offered a deal he can’t refuse.
“Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Nay
Judd Gregg (R-NH) Nay
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Nay “
Good. Glad to know they didn’t stab us in the back after all.
No, I jumped the gun. The original story is lame. Alexander, Hatch and Gregg voted Nay for Koh. You have to check the roll call vote that the poster linked.
Relax, fellow FReepers - one more commie, even a gun grabbing commie, won’t make any difference at Foggy Bottom.
::squeal!!!::
I am so PROUD that several THOUGHTFUL, INDEPENDENT members of the U.S. Senate defeated the HATE-FILLED EXTREME RIGHT-WINGERS who would deny this fine DISTINGUISHED appointee from our first black President. Clearly the INTOLERANT right was motivated by sheer RACISM on this one! Thanks to BI-PARTISAN leadership in the Senate, Mr. Koh will be able to pursue a MODERATE, COMMON-SENSE approach of banning all firearms in the United States and locking up law-abiding citizens. I commend our President's CENTRIST approach by nominating excellent appointments like Mr. Koh. My Democrat friends, please send donations to Socialists 4 Kirk, 666 Rino Drive, Hon. Rockefeller Suite, Chicago, IL , so I will be able to join my Democrat colleagues in ensuring we defeat the right-wing NAZIs in the Senate and enact the business of the American people. I'll be BETTER on YOUR progressive issues than Roland Burris!!!"
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BTW, anyone notice that the eeeeeeeeeeevil John McCain & Lindsey Graham duo WEREN'T on board for confirming this RAT (not surprising, since they have opposed most of Obama's more controversial nominees), but Judd Gregg and Mel Martinez were? I seem to recall freepers touting them as great conservatives the last time they ran...
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