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Friday, April 5, 2013

The Dead Elephant party key to the big sellout door.

Will Republicans Block Background Checks?

The real barrier in the Senate comes from Republicans. The question for many of them is whether they honestly think that letting weapons manufacturers dictate the party's positions on gun violence is a recipe for renewal.

Based on what they have said, a host of GOP senators just might find the daring to tell their party that gutting a background check bill is foolish, substantively and politically. Their ranks include John McCain, who has been brave on this issue in the past, as well as Pat Toomey, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, Mike Johanns, Dean Heller, Johnny Isakson, Saxby Chambliss, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker and Rob Portman. They hold the key.

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Unknown said...: I think you can safely remove Portman from this list.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/8854; April 5, 2013 at 7:43 AM
Anonymous said...: You can forget any one of these morons coming to the aid of the people. The end result will be "we the people" deciding these things, and since our reps don't have the stones to do it, they will pay the price in blood when the SHTF. Bye, bye, boys!; April 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm pretty sure that the GOP doesn't want to test this because I'm fairly certain they can remember 94 as well as the Democrats!

But if they do, well I guess we'll be adding names to the lists, that is if they don't just resign and move out of the country.

The very day this happens the Republican party is done and that's a flat guarantee. Of course the party is now run by the Democrats who we now know are Marxists of the first order so, who knows maybe that what they have planned!; April 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Anonymous said...: McCain is a quisling traitor. He graduated about 4 from the bottom of a class of about 900 at the academy. If his daddy hadn't been an admiral, he'd have been washing the whidshield on planes, not flying them. He allegedly got special treatment in the Hanoi Hilton because of daddy's rank (and there have been persistent rumors that he did not behave honorably in captivity).; April 6, 2013 at 9:23 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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