Daily Archives: 13 September 2013

There’s Hope, Again

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Both Colorado State Senators, including the President of the State Senate, facing recall over their gun control legislation lost those recalls Tuesday.  These were solid defeats, too, nothing cliff-hanger-ish about them: State Senator John Morse (D), the Senate President, lost 51%-49%, and his colleague, State Senator Angela Giron (D), lost 56%-44%.

Moreover, these were not California-style recalls, where the firing occurs in one election and a separate election is held later (in which the just-fired incumbent could be a candidate).  These Colorado recalls were elections themselves, and on losing the recall, Morse and Giron were replaced by their opponents—Republicans Bernie Herpin and George Rivera.

The State Senate remains in Democrat hands, and it remains to be seen whether Herpin and Rivera will be any more responsive to their bosses, the citizens of their districts, but this is a clear step in the right direction: those who try to limit our individual liberties—in this case, try to foist onto honest citizens restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights—can expect to be fired forthwith.

Chuckleheads, Again

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The House chuckleheads are at it again, acting like two-year-olds, throwing tantrums and blocking progress because they can’t get all of their way, and they can’t get it immediately.  They’ve lost sight of, or they’re wilfully ignoring, the legislative version of the Buckley Rule.

House Speaker John Boehner had a strategy that would have, in this run-up to the 2014 elections, forced Senate Democrats, especially those in vulnerable states, choose between voting to defund Obamacare or being responsible for shutting down the government for lack of funding past the current fiscal year.

The plan essentially called for the House to vote on defunding ObamaCare and the temporary spending bill, then send the package to the Democrat-controlled Senate, which almost certainly would have jettisoned the defund part and allowed the chambers to negotiate on a “clean” funding bill.

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“The Ruling Elite is up to it again,” the Tea Party Patriots group said Wednesday.  “They want you to think they have voted for defunding ObamaCare.  But it’s another shell game.”

And the chuckleheads in the supposedly conservative caucus acceded to the TPP’s demands and forced the Boehner Plan to be withdrawn, at least for now.  How do these politicians propose to defund Obamacare without the votes to do so?  At least this, as I said, would have put Democrat Senators on record as voting for the Obamacare that their constituents do not want.

And they should ask themselves how much of a tax cut their “Tax cut, or nothing” stubbornness got them last year.

These guys’ hearts are in the right place, but their heads…are not.