Dem Senator Says "Not Interested in Conpromise with NRA"

[Bartholomew Roberts]

You realize that all three of those stories aren’t about lobbying per se; but about limiting the rotating door system between lobbyists and bureaucracies. Nothing in that article has anything to do with the way the NRA does business.

NRA isn’t hiring top leaders of ATF straight from the agency to come work for them. They aren’t paying seven figure “show up” salaries to disgraced ex-DoJ attorneys who fell on their swords to protect the higher ups during the scandal du jour. NRA isn’t being asked to send over big donors to staff White House positions. So in what way is getting rid of the NRA “draining the swamp” in your view?

There is a big difference between “there should be no money or lobbying in politics” and “money and lobbying should be transparent to the point an ordinary voter understand what is going on.” Not to mention the necessary underlying assumption that it is the money that gives NRA its power is wrong.

 

[turkeestalker]

The POTUS's recent comments are a bit concerning.

I honestly don't believe that they are, everything is not what it is assumed to be.

There were other choices...

No there weren't. Supreme court justices were the only issue.

Its relatively easy to advance fundamentally flawed legislation or legislation that would have effects you do not want if you know it has no chance of going forward or passing.

Bingo.


Aguila Blanca is right, be proactive.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Complacency sucks, and we would deserve what we would gain or lose as a result of it.


Just don't lose sight of the fact that this guy has very deliberately had a whole lot of people behaving like a bunch of baby chicks in a pen, all chasing the same grasshopper... the one that he threw in the pen.

 

[JoeSixpack]

Compromise to us would be we get something in return, Compromise to them is taking some and not all.

Right now they are bold cause they feel like they have the upper hand.. their time has come.. did you see how giddy Di-Fi got when trump said something about putting in some of the stuff she wanted into a bill.

I honestly thought she was gonna wet her self.

That's how politics work.. The side on the loosing end complains about no middle ground, no compromise.

But once the shoe is on the other foot they employ the same behavior they decry.

It's all about power.. no one who has it wants to share it.
So they're gonna try to take the whole pie.. They think they can.. I would suggest the same no compromise stance for our side of things.. cause every day their power wave wains and they'll have to wait to get their next "fix".

Their power peaks with fresh blood but it wears off as fast as it cools.
Time is their enemy, But we keep them at bay (and sometimes not even then) only cause many of us will become single issue voters when necessary.

.. When that falls apart we really will be in trouble.

 

[Machineguntony]

As an NFA machine gun collector and enthusiast, every time I hear of a “no grandfathering” clause, I swallow my drink extra hard.