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Posted on 01/07/2013 9:58:03 AM PST by neverdem
The newly sworn in freshman Democratic senator from North Dakota told George Stephanopoulos on his “This Week” ABC News program that President Barack Obama’s agenda to further restrict gun rights will not pass Congress.
“Well, I think you need to put everything on the table, but what I hear from the administration — and if the Washington Post is to be believed — that’s way — way in extreme of what I think is necessary or even should be talked about–and it’s not going to pass,” said Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who defeated former Republican Rep. Rick Berg by 2,994 votes in the 2012 general election.
Stephanopoulos asked the former North Dakota attorney general, “You’re a proud NRA member in the state of North Dakota, are you willing to sign on to some of the reforms that Vice President Biden and President Obama are already talking about?”
She said, “I think what we need to do is we need to take a look at what happened at Sandy Hook. When I was attorney general, I was tasked with a national task force on school violence.”
Those measures were similar to the security procedures in place at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Conn., where a spree-shooter killed 26 teachers and students, she said.
“We made a number of recommendations which, in fact, were adopted at Sandy Hook to help keep schools safer. They weren’t adequate,” she said...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Berg was also one of the wealthiest members of Congress according to a list I recently saw.
The state is somewhat of an anamoly politically speaking. You are quite correct that its US Senators and Congressman have been mostly Democrats for the last four or five decades....which is in stark contrast to the state’s presidential politics having voted Democrat only once in the last 70 years.....a truly inpressive record of avoiding Democrat presidential candidates.
No one will comply. EO’s don’t trump the a Constitution.
Why, yes, it might not. But, Dear Leader isn’t shy about Executive Orders, is he Senator? Do you think there’ a Donkey in either the House or Senate who will oppose him, let alone the clueless, gutless, spineless, sellout Republicans. Get real, lady.
Rats in Congress pushed "moderates" who were pro Second Amendment in 2006 and 2008. That's why they didn't vote to renew the "assault weapons" ban in the 111th Congress when they had supermajorities in both houses of Congress. They fear the NRA more than Obama.
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WE DON' NEED NO
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Sen. Manchin (WV) did a 180 on his gun control views just recently. He got an earful from his constituents and tried to backpedal, don’t know how successfully. The damage was done.
Having said that, I'm surprised she at least gave lip service matching her campaign promise to protect gun rights. We'll see.
We head this same talk before Obamacare. These thieving crooks will use every trick in the book to make us their slaves.
Is Heitkamp going to be to gun control what Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln were for Obamacare?
Once Harry Reid gives her a sweet hometown deal she’ll have an arranged “epiphany.”
Not one word that spews from the mouth of a democrat will I ever trust.
They had supermajorities in both houses of Congress in the 111th Congress. Remember that the commissars behind Red Army units were told to and did shoot deserters. The NRA knows what its job is.
problem is something will. did they ask for unreachble extremes to appear to compromise and get what they really wanted. typcial dialectic approach.
Check comment# 30.
I believe Obama will just bypass congress and make his own laws.
The democrats in the senate and congress will be happy to let him usurp their constitutional authority.
AGAIN.
Republicans won’t be quite as happy about it but they will still just roll over as they have done the last 4 years.
As we just saw with the fiscal cliff, RINO's and their Boner Horn gives them effective control of the US House.
Agreed. It’s like someone saying “I’d like all your money. No? Ok, then I’ll settle for half.” Or like the old joke summarized “will you sleep with me? No? How about for a million dollars? Ok, then how about for a hundred dollars? Well, now we’re just negotiating over price.”
What we may have here is something similar to N. Y. with Kirsten Gillibrand, a backbench nominally pro gun Rep., who upon being elected to the Senate became a Feinswine mini-me.
Bump
I think with 45 GOP senators, Feinstein’s gun grabbing bill will be filibustered to death in the Senate. If it somehow managed to survive the Senate it will be DOA the moment it reaches the House.
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