NastyNate
03-20-2009, 07:03 PM
http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/AWBLettertoHolder309.pdf:smokin::smokin:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2009/03/18/congressional-dems-oppose-awb-in-letter/
NRA is reporting more good news today. Sixty five Democratic members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to Eric Holder opposing the reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban. Just to run the math for you, there are 178 Republicans in the House of Representatives under the 111th Congress. It takes 218 votes to pass a bill. That means with 65 Democrats on record as opposing a renewal of the ban, we can afford to lose 28 deadbeat Republicans on the vote, and Pelosi still would not have a majority to pass a renewal.
This gives us a pretty good indication that getting a ban passed in the 111th Congress is going to be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible for Obama to pull off. Great work on the part of Congressman Mike Ross, and great work on behalf of NRA for getting this together. It would be awfully nice for our main complaint about the 111th Congress to be that they didn’t do enough for us, rather than what they did to us.
But that’s not to say with this pass snowed out, they won’t try to find another way over the mountain. We still have plenty of enemies in Congress and in the White House.
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2009/03/18/congressional-dems-oppose-awb-in-letter/
NRA is reporting more good news today. Sixty five Democratic members of the House of Representatives have sent a letter to Eric Holder opposing the reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban. Just to run the math for you, there are 178 Republicans in the House of Representatives under the 111th Congress. It takes 218 votes to pass a bill. That means with 65 Democrats on record as opposing a renewal of the ban, we can afford to lose 28 deadbeat Republicans on the vote, and Pelosi still would not have a majority to pass a renewal.
This gives us a pretty good indication that getting a ban passed in the 111th Congress is going to be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible for Obama to pull off. Great work on the part of Congressman Mike Ross, and great work on behalf of NRA for getting this together. It would be awfully nice for our main complaint about the 111th Congress to be that they didn’t do enough for us, rather than what they did to us.
But that’s not to say with this pass snowed out, they won’t try to find another way over the mountain. We still have plenty of enemies in Congress and in the White House.