Watching the Democrats - it's Fun and Macabre!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Now those appointed, and everything they have done in the past year, is null and void.

If they deport your gardener is everything he did null and void?
At least someone was running the show, while congress was playing who's on first.

I don't think anyone can argue with McCaffery, that the tax code is totally fucked up.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If they deport your gardener is everything he did null and void?
At least someone was running the show, while congress was playing who's on first.

I don't think anyone can argue with McCaffery, that the tax code is totally fucked up.

If your gardener was a department head in the Federal gov't, who needed to be confirmed, and was not, then yepper!

Members of Congress were home for Christmas - except for the few needed to keep the Congress in a pro forma session. Obama has plenty of working days to make his recommended appointments to Congress. He is the very first President to ever "proclaim" that a Congress was not in session, over the stated fact of the matter. Congressional sessions are not a small matter. Neither house of Congress can stop a session, without the approval of the other house.

On the gun limiting bill, so far the Feinstein bill to ban some hundred plus models of firearms, doesn't have enough votes to pass - 51 and doesn't nearly have enough votes to override a Republican/Conservative filibuster - 60. For right now it's a no-go. There may be a consensus reached on limiting the capacity of magazines to 10, later on.

This is already the law in California, and I don't see an outcry against it**. Of course, this applies to FUTURE new purchases only. So you can still buy older high capacity magazines - if they were made before the bill went into effect, they're grandfathered in.

Even the staunchest Conservatives agree that background checks are necessary for gun purchases. The "militia" mentioned in the Constitution, was never meant to allow unfit and dangerous people, to buy firearms, whenever they please.


The hard core Conservatives don't like it, but what else is new, eh?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Adak

If your gardener was a department head in the Federal gov't, who needed to be confirmed, and was not, then yepper!

I don't think so, it's no different than having an acting chief stuck in there for a year, like they do in government agencies all the time.
Do you think the people in those agencies said, you're not the boss of me, I'm not doing what you say.

I'd had a letter exchange with the acting head of the Federal Flood Insurance Program. I certainly didn't disregard what he wrote because he was only the acting head.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't think so, it's no different than having an acting chief stuck in there for a year, like they do in government agencies all the time.
Do you think the people in those agencies said, you're not the boss of me, I'm not doing what you say.

I'd had a letter exchange with the acting head of the Federal Flood Insurance Program. I certainly didn't disregard what he wrote because he was only the acting head.

An acting chief, IS a valid chief, albeit temporary. These "wanna be's", never were valid. Never.

Everything they did, is now void.

[Adak]

The more I think about the gun control lobby, the more I believe we should have these folk solve all our violent death problems.

For instance, to stop deaths from avalanches, we just need to outlaw:

1) Snow (obviously).

2) Uneven ground (subtle).

and

3) Gravity

Brilliant!! A true liberals fix.

Kudo's to Israel for bombing the trucks that were transporting the Russian SAM's from Syria to Lebanon, to arm Hezbollah!

Well done!

[Adak]

After all the screaming and shouting about "assault rifles!, those damn assault rifles!", we get the confirmation that:

1) There was no assault rifle used in the Newtown, CONN, shooting.

There was NO rifle used, of any kind, in this shooting.

The gunman used four pistols. (Not the reported two pistols).

2) There was a rifle left in the trunk of the car the killer drove. From somewhat hazy video (low light), the rifle is a semi-automatic, but doesn't appear to be an "assault rifle" (AR-15), as previously reported.

This was reported confirmed by Pete Williams at NBC, among others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=oJkvB9goPAA#!

But we need to ban assault rifles anyway. All that black, dangerous plastic on the stock and grips - makes the rifle just force you to start shooting people, doesn't it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

OK, thanks for setting the record straight, then we'll just ban hand guns.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Adak

1) There was no assault rifle used in the Newtown, CONN, shooting.

He was firing 47 rounds per minute. He pumped between three and 13 rounds into each 1st grader. Only a wacko extremist would not call that an assault weapon.

How many rounds do you need to hunt deer? His guns only have one purpose. To hunt and kill humans.

You are even assaulting the sanity of moderates.