Posted on 04/17/2003 12:53:55 AM PDT by Uncle Bill
Edited on 04/17/2003 1:47:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
My post said "No more BS." So why are you giving us more BS?
Blacks do remain in a state of slavery to the Democrats who ignore them and keep them on social services. Democrats are able to do this simply because they know the blacks will vote for them no matter how little Dems help them.
I see no difference between that and the way much of those who (like me) believe in the Second Amendment will vote blindly for a Republican no matter what stance that Republican takes on banning various weapons. You think the President and other high-level Republicans don't know that they've got your vote locked up regardless? They do. That's why they can pander like this to the left, because they know they run no risk of losing your vote no matter what pandering they do.
I see no difference, and that's no "BS".
It's pure repetitious, boring BS. People like you tried to teach the GOP and Bush a lesson in '92....and we wound up with the Clintons for 8 years and all their career and lifetime appointees until they all die of old age. Thanks for nothing. Pretty soon, wou'll be telling us to vote Third Party. Vote GOP until we let you know otherwise. Try to not be "creative"....there is too much at stake.
Yeah, you're right. A democrat would mean an extension of the AWB, a prescription drug benefit that will cost us billions, campaign finance reform, Patriot II...
I have often wondered why it is that whether Dems or Repubs. are in office, there is the inexorable march toward more and more government. I can remember way back in the '60s, I believe it was G. Wallace, used the line "...there ain't a dimes worth of difference between 'em...". Sometimes I think we are being played the fool by both parties. Certain issues are used as wedge issues to give the appearance of two parties, but on certain other very important issues, like progressive taxes, both parties adhere to bigger and bigger government. The Republicans and the Democrats are traveling the same highway, more power, but at different speeds. We the people are the losers in this race.
From a letter by James Madison, author of the Commerce Clause, on it's purpose and intent:
"1. The meaning of the Phrase "to regulate trade" must be sought in the general use of it, in other words in the objects to which the power was generally understood to be applicable, when the Phrase was inserted in the Constn."
"2. The power has been understood and used by all commercial & manufacturing Nations as embracing the object of encouraging manufactures. It is believed that not a single exception can be named."
As long as they're relying in the Commerce Clause for the authority to pass the AWB, the relevant question is not "What do you hunt with them?", but rather "How does restricting them encourage manufacture?"
bump !!
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