tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3424164267278838302..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80873518080288712212013-03-20T06:52:50.944-04:002013-03-20T06:52:50.944-04:00Well, so far we've made some progress on the &...Well, so far we've made some progress on the "Gays."<br />A lot, actually, if you look at the polling over the last 20-30 years.<br /><br />Now, we probably won't make much headway for a generation or two on "God and guns," but I think the younger folks are less religious, and many of them don't like guns as much as their parents and grandparents do.<br /><br />Of course, in the meantime, the gun carnage continues.<br />And the prayers for the dead.<br />They're of a kind, of course.<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-42399195336224831682013-03-20T06:45:44.938-04:002013-03-20T06:45:44.938-04:00Why didn't those polls matter?
Because most o...<i>Why didn't those polls matter?</i><br /><br />Because most of those voters won't come out in a low-turnout midterm to vote for you if you support popular gun control measures, but gun control opponents sure as hell will turn out if you do that.<br /><br /><i>And do remember Harry needs 60 votes</i><br /><br />On an assault weapons ban, Feinstein doesn't even have 50.<br />Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51357683387511859962013-03-20T05:52:56.845-04:002013-03-20T05:52:56.845-04:00Didn't polls show the public supports backgrou...Didn't polls show the public supports background checks, magazine limits, and a ban on assault weapons?<br /><br />Why didn't those polls matter?<br /><br />And do remember Harry needs 60 votes for permission to go to the little boys' room because too many of his Democrats rejected majority rule when they had the chance to kill the filibuster, right along with the Republicans.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25343095933211391322013-03-19T23:06:52.518-04:002013-03-19T23:06:52.518-04:00" we're not going to get real change at t..." we're not going to get real change at the national level until the NRA is ACORN "<br /><br />Nice thought, but not so easy to implement. ACORN got money from the government, thanks to legislators who once were willing to support it. NRA gives money to the legislators. <br /> Quitting giving money? Very easy. Quitting receiving money? Very difficult. Or as the Congressman said to the woman next to him in the tumbril on the way to the guillotine, "After you, my dear."<br /><br />Very crankily yours,<br />The New York Crank<br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.com