Major city shut down during all this by the search for one guy; all kinds of things to be said about that.
For now,
David Henneberry, an avid boater and
member of the Watertown Yacht Club, walked outside to smoke a cigarette
just after Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick lifted the curfew on Boston
residents at 6 p.m. Friday.
Puffing away, Henneberry noticed the tarp that covered his rare, 22-foot pleasure cruiser...wasn't on correctly.
Which led to finding the bad guy hiding inside. AFTER the city had been shut down for a day, etc.
Pass on to people you know who're whining about the vote the other day: they had to have 60 votes because Obama and Reid wanted a vote WITHOUT ANYONE GETTING THE DETAILS ON THE BILL BEFORE VOTING.
But under Senate rules, a simple majority vote would have opened the measure to up to 30 hours of debate, which would have meant inspecting the details. The White House demanded, and Mr. Reid agreed, that Congress should try to pass the amendment without such a debate.
Majority rules would have also opened the bill to pro-gun amendments that were likely to pass. That would have boxed Mr. Reid into the embarrassing spectacle of having to later scotch a final bill because it also contained provisions that the White House loathes. So Mr. Reid moved under “unanimous consent” to allow nine amendments, each with a 60-vote threshold. . . .
Manchin-Toomey was rushed together on a political timetable, and a thorough scrub would have revealed that its finer legal points aren’t as modest as liberals claim. Tellingly, the White House blew up earlier negotiations with Tom Coburn on background checks. The Oklahoma Republican favored more and better checks across secondary firearms markets like gun shows and online, but liberals insisted that federally licensed dealers had to keep records.
In other words, keeping guns away from dangerous or unstable people was less important than defeating the NRA.
There should be a rule: any time a politician wants a vote without all the details being available first, he should receive twenty lashes. Delivered by a Marine DI.
Puffing away, Henneberry noticed the tarp that covered his rare, 22-foot pleasure cruiser...wasn't on correctly.
Which led to finding the bad guy hiding inside. AFTER the city had been shut down for a day, etc.
Pass on to people you know who're whining about the vote the other day: they had to have 60 votes because Obama and Reid wanted a vote WITHOUT ANYONE GETTING THE DETAILS ON THE BILL BEFORE VOTING.
But under Senate rules, a simple majority vote would have opened the measure to up to 30 hours of debate, which would have meant inspecting the details. The White House demanded, and Mr. Reid agreed, that Congress should try to pass the amendment without such a debate.
Majority rules would have also opened the bill to pro-gun amendments that were likely to pass. That would have boxed Mr. Reid into the embarrassing spectacle of having to later scotch a final bill because it also contained provisions that the White House loathes. So Mr. Reid moved under “unanimous consent” to allow nine amendments, each with a 60-vote threshold. . . .
Manchin-Toomey was rushed together on a political timetable, and a thorough scrub would have revealed that its finer legal points aren’t as modest as liberals claim. Tellingly, the White House blew up earlier negotiations with Tom Coburn on background checks. The Oklahoma Republican favored more and better checks across secondary firearms markets like gun shows and online, but liberals insisted that federally licensed dealers had to keep records.
In other words, keeping guns away from dangerous or unstable people was less important than defeating the NRA.
There should be a rule: any time a politician wants a vote without all the details being available first, he should receive twenty lashes. Delivered by a Marine DI.
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Once again, the "official" process fails miserably, and a private citizen catches ANOTHER terrorist.
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