A collosal W....T....F is called for here. Apparently, a number of Democrats are attempting to torpedo the party's chances for 2008.
Remember Carolyn McCarthy's introduced-every-year Assault Weapons Ban II, this version, HR 1022, being one that'd outlaw, by name, dozens of sporting rifles never used in crimes as well as nearly every legal semiautomatic handgun?
Remember how people posted that it was just her, that the Dems would never slip back into that election-losing rhetoric, that they'd focus on Iraq and the real issues?
Well. Guess WHAT. It's got EIGHTEEN COSPONSORS as of today. And...yes, they are ALL Democrats!
(Update, 3/14 - Now 26 cosponsors, all Democrats)
HR 1022 would declare illegal everything including WWII M-1 Carbines that went up the beach at Normandy. It would prevent the transfer of a war veteran's heirlooms to their children...the government would confiscate them, and they'd either be destroyed or end up in a politico's collection. It would ban things never used in crimes, but that have been carried to target matches nationwide, that have been used in competition, and that have been carried by law-abiding citizens to defend their families after Katrina. It would, in short, rightly infuriate every single law-abiding owner of legal semi-automatic weapons in the United States.
Look up H.R. 1022 on the Thomas system if you'd like to see a horrific exercise in bureacratic nonsense that would instantly criminalize nearly every semiautomatic pistol as well, since they have the ability to accept a higher-capacity magazine.
Here's the list of Democrats who seem to have forgotten that the 2006 elections were a rejection of neocon corruption and warmongering, NOT an endorsement of the obsessive pet agendas that lost Dems control of Congress in 1994. If one is yours, perhaps call them and ask just what, praytell, they're smoking?
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY 5th)
Joseph Crowley (D-NY 7th)
Chaka Fattah (D-PA 2nd)
Bob Filner (D-CA 51st)
Barney Frank (D-MA 4th)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX 18th)
Carolyn Maloney (D-NY 14th)
Marty Meehan (D-MA 5th)
James P. Moran (D-VA 8th)
Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL 9th)
Adam Schiff (D-CA 29th)
Chris Van Hollen, Jr. (D-MD 8th)
Rep Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Rep Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [D-AZ-7]
Rep Miller, Brad [D-NC-13]
Rep Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THEY THINKING?!
Are they actively trying to implode the Democratic majority and assure a 2008 Republican victory? Why? WHY?