[Girlene]

Another weird phenomenon is how ALL the Liberals and Dems fall into lock step on every cockamamie idea and cause..............

.................It is Monolithic!

The media and the obama campaign/whitehouse are a well-oiled machine after four years and two presidential elections. We have nothing to compete with that. Okay, we do have the Drudge Report. It's not enough, but it is a powerful tool in the information messaging campaign that we desperately need.

We have FR, as well, although it's impact is much smaller than Drudge......and with all the in-fighting that occurred during the primary/presidential election on top of the loss in November, traffic has been way down.

[Girlene]

Watching a replay of NBC Schumer vs. Cruz - Schumer seems fairly confident that both dems and Repubs will come together on this gun debate issue to pass something. They desperately want a universal background check (including private sales, of course).

Cruz questions the number of sales that avoid the check. Gregory says it is 40%. Cruz doesn’t agree.

Gregory plays a portion of the NRA ad and questions how much the NRA helped its cause. Cruz says people can decide for themselves, but there is a fundamental point of hypocrisy brought out by the ad. Doesn’t think it is constructive what the president is doing - pushing an agenda on gun issues designed to appeal to his partisan political buds.

Three reasons why what the pres is pushing is wrong:

1. would have done nothing to prevent crime in Newtown
2.not constitutional
3.they don’t work

Schummer says dems should accept Heller, but people shouldn’t be allowed to own an AR15- nothing to do with constitutionality.

Cruz was pretty good in this round, IMO.