Sipsey Street Irregulars: Another dead elephant party senator goes all wobbly.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Another dead elephant party senator goes all wobbly.

Obama’s make-or-break week on guns

President Barack Obama finds out this week whether he scratches out a narrow victory on gun control — or ends up with nothing at all. . .

The unlikely key to the answer might be a conservative GOP senator from Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey. The former head of the Club for Growth has emerged as a last-minute possible partner on a deal. But his stamp of approval is far from certain. If a deal emerges, Republicans could delay action on it for a week. . .

Manchin is trying to sell Toomey on a bill that would require checks and records of sales in a commercial setting, including at gun shows and online. Loopholes would remain for private sellers. And people who sell a gun that is later used in a crime would not be held responsible for that action. . .

For now, Toomey is key to the deal both in the Senate, where he could provide cover for other Republicans and conservative Democrats, but also in the House, where he is thought by advocates to bring with him the votes of several of Pennsylvania’s 13 House Republicans.

In a statement last week, Toomey signaled he was open to a compromise on background checks. “And, so I’m in favor of making changes to a background system if I believe that it would help to reduce the likelihood that a person who shouldn’t have access to a gun doesn’t get access to a gun,” Toomey said in a local TV interview.

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Anonymous said...: I have to keep grabbing my ass and putting back on as I continue to laugh it off.

None of this is going anywhere and everybody knows it but the left wants it soooooo bad!

They've caused the prices of ammo and firearms to go so high and they and their friends have made so much money because they want it soooooo bad.

The bastards and bitches know they're being watched and know beyond doubt what WILL happen if they try it but they just want it soooooo bad!

But not bad enough to loose everything including re-election. More whining and gnashing of teeth and complaining about how nobody will go along with their schemes, for the good of the country and centralized, efficient government, telling everyone what to do and how and when they can do it.

These simple asses haven't the capacity to figure out why we won't go along and kiss their asses to their satisfaction, the dumb ones, that is.

The others know but they just want it soooooooo bad!

Anything to advance the cause of Marxist control and propagation, even a centimetre at a time and this time they don't even a millimetre. It's so unfair!; April 8, 2013 at 10:52 AM

"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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Another dead elephant party senator goes all wobbly.

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