'08?

Well, for me, the expiration of the AWB was a very big deal. On this very forum I remember a lot of all-or-nothing extremists talking about how the Repubs would sell them out and Bush would sign the AWB, etc.
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Was for me too. But giving Bush credit for that is like giving a drunk credit for saving a life just becasue he didn't get behind the wheel.

I don't give people kudo's for their inaction leading to no negative results.
 
Well then you completely misunderstood what happend. Bush's inaction was exactly what kept that ban from being renewed. The Democrats gave him endless crap for not keeping his word on the AWB. They knew exactly what happened. I remember "sportsman" John Kerry flying back from the campaign trail to vote for the AWB. Bush and the Republicans killed that bill stone dead. Here is an interesting snippet from that long-ago age.

But the law had a built-in sunset clause, and it expires next Monday. Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said the president "supports the reauthorization of current law," and would sign a bill if it came to him. But, McClellan added, "The president doesn't control the congressional timetable." New York Sen. Charles Schumer responded to that today.

SEN. CHARLES SCHUMER: Well, if you believe that, I have got a bridge in Brooklyn that I want to sell you. When the president wants something to come on the floor, the Republican leadership puts it on.
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The bill never made it to his desk, so we will never know what he would really have done. Oh, wait, he promised to sign it if it got onto his desk.

I think we should thank the legislative branch instead. They are the ones who failed to pass it. Failure to make it happen, in this case, trumps inaction. Weird, huh?
 
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