The Denver Post has a story up about Coloardo state Rep. Cheri Gerou (R) who filed an ethics complaint against gun lobbyist Joe Neville. She told Neville to ”(expletive) off” after demanding that he stop “scaring her constituents” by claiming she was going to support four gun bills that she actually voted against.
The gun lobbyist didn’t take too kindly to being told to f*** off and replied, “You just earned yourself another round of mailers in your district.” Of course, he interpreted her anger as an attempt to silence Second Amendment supporters.
Apparently his “another round of mailers” sentence broke a rule that says lobbyists must not influence lawmakers “by means of deceit or threat … or political reprisal.”
Gerou is probably grateful Neville didn’t whip out a Glock instead.
Speaking of remembering, remember King Ricky’s appalling financial martial law? That was the legislation that allowed one person to dictate all kinds of things without any input from voters. For example:
He could do away with unions, with police officers, mayorships, you name it. You voted for someone and they won? Pfft, fuggetaboutit. OUT.
You like that school your kid goes to? Nevermind. GONE.
You cherish democracy and thought it would always be The American way? TOO BAD.
Remember all my rants about the GOP’s goal of crushing unions as a way of denying Democrats their political funding which would lead to eventual single party rule? Me too.
The state House passed late Wednesday what the Snyder administration says is a new and improved emergency manager law, but opponents say is a warmed-over version of what voters rejected Nov. 6.
Gun owners with concealed weapon permits could get additional training that would allow them to carry their concealed firearms in schools and at sporting events on school property under legislation approved Wednesday by a Michigan House committee.
The bill, OK’d 7-2 by majority Republicans along party lines, is awaiting potential final votes before lawmakers conclude their lame-duck session. [...]
Public schools – currently gun-free unless someone openly carries a weapon – would have to allow concealed weapons under the bill… [U]nintended consequences – more potential for altercations at football games or students finding teachers’ guns in locked places.
Is it the right time to discuss responsible gun regulation yet?
Because Republican just can’t seem to learn any lessons from the November elections, they decided to pass a bill attacking LGBTs and women. And to make double super sure that their so-called “small government” keeps their big paws off the rights of individuals, they included a “conscience objection” for health care providers who don’t want to give that care when they feel it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Never mind anyone else’s beliefs… or non-beliefs.
In other words, they get to discriminate against gay people and female people, even when it means that their well-being is at stake:
The Republicans in the Michigan legislature have passed a bill today that would allow hospitals, nursing homes or any other health care center to deny services that run contrary to the religious teachings or conscious of its leaders. This so-called conscience objection bill would open the doors for healthcare providers, insurance companies and employers to disallow healthcare services to anyone they find objectionable, such as LGBT people and women seeking family planning services including birth control and abortions.
There you have it, Michigan in a very ugly nutshell.
In that post, I wrote about one sentence that Tantrumy Paul inadvertently blurted out that caught my attention:
“I don’t even think President Obama is proposing more gun laws.”
That remark caught someone else’s attention, too, and she called it “news”. I agree! Paul Ryan defended President Obama while making it clear that the NRA is supporting the GOP candidate, their own Republican candidate, who has a schizophrenic gun rights record, while Obama’s record is that of not taking away guns.
And that same someone else caught yet another scoop by that reporter than I overlooked. Rachel Maddow noticed that Ryan callously asserted that poor people in inner cities are lacking “good discipline and good character.” And according to Ryan, teaching them how to remedy those character defects is how they can climb out of poverty. Right. got it.
No wonder his people cut the interview short. Rachel takes it from here:
“Are all people who are poor, only poor because they have not been taught good character? Or is it only poor people in the inner cities who are poor because they don’t have good character? They don’t have good discipline, they need to be taught that. You watching at home, do you not make a lot of money? Was there a time you did not have a lot of money? Is that because you have bad character? If I were the Romney/Ryan campaign, I would probably try to trash that reporter…”
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A rocket-propelled grenade and RPG-7 launcher, via Wikipedia
See that weapon above? How’d you feel if it were completely legal to open-carry one of those suckers?
The scary part is that Justice Antonin NRA Scalia is dead (no pun) serious about what he’s saying about just that, which is why re-electing President Obama is so important. We do not want any more people like Scalia on the Supreme Court:
“Obviously the [Second] Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried, it’s to keep and “bear,” so it doesn’t apply to cannons, but I suppose there are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided.”
So anything one can carry around is dandy with him. Got it. He’s good with legally schlepping weapons that can are used against tanks and planes and stuff. How measured of him.
And imagine a rocket launcher in the hands of someone like the Colorado murderer… in a movie theater. Or a mall. Bye bye Macy’s.
And somehow I don’t think we’d need to rely on one of those explosive-projectile-type things to protect ourselves from burglars. Call it a hunch.
To those out there who are big on “Second Amendment Remedies,” there’s this to consider: If the big bad government were really coming after us and our sidearms, hey, they have drones and bombs and the military on their side. I have a funny feeling they’d still win.
There is no conceivable way to apply the Founding Fathers’ understanding of a ”well-regulated militia” armed with slow-to-load, hard-to-aim muskets to today’s weapon technology.
Willard Romney will say (or pay) ANYthing to get elected, from the obvious to the idiotic to the controversial to the flip to the flop to the nth degree.
Via Think Progress, Romney answers a question in North Dakota about gun rights:
Weeee! He likes them ALL! Every last one of ‘em! What a patriot!
But Willard, do they like YOU? Because nobody else does.
As usual, the GOP loves to strut their stuff when it comes to patriotism, being “real Americans”, and their reverence for the Constitution. If only they were as educated as they are self-righteous. Maybe if one of them makes it into the White House (god forbid), they can pull all-nighter study sessions while they await those 3 a.m. calls.
Yep, those Republicans sure know how to pick ‘em:
Cain’s position — that Congress can’t regulate guns but states can — not only places him well to the left of the NRA, it also places him at odds with the Supreme Court. In McDonald v. Chicago, the justices held 5-4 that the Second Amendment applies equally to the states and to the federal government. So any gun control law that Congress could not enact also cannot be enacted by state or local governments as Cain would prefer.
Cain’s relatively moderate stance on gun control also places him well to the left of the Republican Party. [...]
Cain is clearly more interested in making the Constitution up as he goes along than in actually following it.
TP has more on Cain’s other, er, misunderstandings.
This school year alone, 15 students have been shot to death an additional 118 student have been shot and injured. Even with metal detectors and other preventative measures, the sheer number of easily accessible guns makes the task of protecting students, teachers and administrators challenging.
Deaths? Pfft. Injuries? Meh. The NRA is spending millions to lobby lawmakers for things like, oh, a Glock clip that holds 31 rounds (like the one used to gun down Rep. Gabrielle Giffords), because hey, we can’t take away the rights of murderers.
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