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Friday, March 15, 2013

The NRA weenie wagon's engine is warming up. Again. More along the lines of red herrings and the big sellout.

Joe Manchin fights uphill battle for gun deal.

In close contact with the NRA, the West Virginia Democrat and hunter is leading a bipartisan group crafting legislation to expand background checks on purchasers of firearms. The group is trying to lure at least one pro-NRA Republican in hopes that will open the floodgates for more. Support from the GOP will help determine how much backing the effort gets from red-state Democrats, who so far have been lukewarm.

Indeed, Manchin floated an idea to pro-NRA Sen. Mark Begich to combine the Alaska Democrat’s bipartisan proposal modifying gun restrictions for the mentally ill with a new background check plan in an attempt to piece together a broader coalition.

Begich’s response: Manchin needs to win over more Republican senators than just moderate Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk.

“I know he would like to get a criminal background check completed,” Begich said of Manchin. “His challenge is, and I wait for him to finish off his discussions, he needs to bring one or two A-rated NRA Republicans on board. With all due respect to Sen. Kirk, he’s an F-rated. You need an A-rated.”

A-rated, schmay rated. If the NRA gives a wink and a nod to these traitorous pukes they will have confirmed everything we always knew about them.

Wayne in the Wilderness.

5 comments:

Scott J said...: Just copy my comments to the red herring post here.

NRA has established what it is. It's just negotiating price.; March 15, 2013 at 8:27 AM
Ashrak said...: What the NRA is pulling in Illinois ought to tell the entire country the truth about the NRA. It stands AGAINST the free exercise of the Second Amendment. It stands FOR government control over exercise so long as it can keep the dough rolling in.

The NRA is the largest and best disguised gun control group in the country. It is a usurper of rights just like the government it claims to oppose.

The NRA lobbyist here actually wrote yesterday to "let the professionals worry about" legislative happenings.

Yup. The message sent is - don't defend your own right to defend your self and property, let the professionals do it for you. Until the NRA wants you to melt the phone lines anyway. Hilariously the NRA calls on folks to make calls while at the same time telling people not to post names if legislators positions pro and anti only to turn around and then tell people not to call one legislator in particular Make sense? No? Exactly. The header has kinda list track of his sheep, not realizing that his own "leadership" is what has them so confused.

He might be better off saying - all you folks just need to shut up until I give the order to speak and even then only speak to who I tell you to and only say what I tell you to.

Sheesh. The Chicago way sure does run the NRA in Illinois. Gee, how would the country like to see Wayne hop up on the stump and argue that constitutional carry is something to be avoided by creating the most restrictive shall issue in the country?

Without a doubt, the NRA is talking tall nationally, begging and shooting low here in Illinois and fully intending upon driving the weenie mobile up our collective hind ends all across this land.

Pathetic.; March 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Anonymous said...: Begich’s response: Manchin needs to win over more Republican senators than just moderate Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk.

That's rich. A "moderate." Cruz is the second coming of a Puritan pastor, and Kirk is a moderate.

In the words of Orwell, "look to the language."; March 16, 2013 at 4:35 AM
Anonymous said...: "What the NRA is pulling in Illinois ought to tell the entire country the truth about the NRA."

The NRA does not run the state of Illinois. Apparently, the voters of Chicago currently do. Only the voters in the rest of the state can change this.; March 16, 2013 at 5:57 AM
Ashrak said...: Hilariously, the NRA lobbyist here openly admitted to supporting Mark Kirk, advocated others do so and afterwards admitted publicly he did vote for him.

So the NRA lobbyist admits to voting FOR a guy who introduced a rifle BAN.

Truth hurts.

But I'm the bad guy for telling the truth. Uh huh. Riiiiiight.

NRA may once have stood for National Rifle Association but corruption infection has it now meaning-
No Rights Allowed.

III; March 16, 2013 at 1:46 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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