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That Was Quicker Than Last Time

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From the NRA:

EPA Denies Ammo Ban Petition

Friday, August 27, 2010

Responding to a grassroots outcry from gun owners, the Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has denied a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and other radical groups that had sought to ban the use of lead in ammunition.

Agreeing with the position of the NRA and the firearms industry, the agency explained in a news release that it “does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).” Further crushing the hopes of anti-gun and anti-hunting activists, the release added: “nor is the agency seeking such authority.”

I guess somebody told them about the sudden rush on Wookie suits.

The NRA Finally Throws Harry Reid Under the Bus

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Via email today:

In the coming days and weeks, the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) will be announcing endorsements and candidate ratings in hundreds of federal races, as well as thousands of state legislative races. Unless these announcements are required by the timing of primary or special elections, the NRA-PVF generally does not issue endorsements while important legislative business is pending. The NRA-PVF also operates under a long-standing policy that gives preference to incumbent candidates who have voted with the NRA on key issues, which is explained in more detail here.

The U.S. Senate recently considered a number of issues important to NRA members, including the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Out of respect for the confirmation process, the NRA did not announce its position on Ms. Kagan’s confirmation until the conclusion of her testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee. Her evasive testimony exacerbated grave concerns we had about her long-standing hostility towards the Second Amendment. As a result, the NRA strongly opposed her confirmation and made it clear at the time that we would be scoring this important vote.

The vote on Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Court, along with the previous year’s confirmation vote on Sonia Sotomayor, are critical for the future of the Second Amendment. After careful consideration, the NRA-PVF announced today that it will not be endorsing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for re-election in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Nevada.

The NRA, contrary to the beliefs that it is a exclusively Republican organization, has endorsed Harry Reid in the past because of his support of the right to arms, at least when voting on specific legislation. However, there’s more to it than just that, and the NRA has at long last weighed the balance of Reid’s behavior (or, on the other hand, sees which way the political winds are blowing) and has dropped that support like a hot rock.

About time.

Oh HELL No! (Part II)

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Well, one does have to wonder at the current .gov. Back in March 2009 the Department of Defense attempted to change its rules for the disposal of once-fired small-arms ammunition casings by requiring the brass to be destroyed, suitable only as scrap metal.

The reaction of the shooting community was swift, vocal, and effective.

Now the Environmental Protection Agency is considering banning lead in firearm ammunition. Click on that link. Follow the NSSF’s recommendations. Write your congresscritters, then call them. Comment on the EPA’s public commentary site. Write – hell, call – Administrator Lisa Jackson’s office and voice your objections.

Repeatedly.

Be calm, be collected, be polite. But be insistent and persistent.

UPDATE: It’s over. The EPA backed down.

In Even Better Political News . . .

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Ruth McClung has won the Republican primary and will be running against (*hawk, spit!*) Raul Grijalva for the AZ Congressional District 7 seat. I met Ms. McClung at a blogger gathering in Phoenix a few months ago (she’s not in my district, I live in District 8.) Now she has to face the Grijalva political machine. I wish her great luck.

One of her campaign slogans I really like is “Maybe it does take a rocket scientist . . . “

She’s an engineer, and her expertise is in missile guidance systems.

Lt. Col. Allen West Wins!

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Ron Klein and Allen West set for contentious general election battle

Voters in Broward and Palm Beach counties set the table for a vicious political food fight in November – the race between U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, and challenger Allen West, R-Plantation.

Each candidate easily won his party’s nomination. Klein crushed Paul Francis Renneisen and West easily bested David Brady.

With half the precincts counted shortly before 10 p.m., Klein had 84 percent of the Democratic primary vote.

With half the precincts counted shortly befoare 10 p.m., West had 76 percent of the Republican primary vote.

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In other news, it looks like McLame will be going back to the Senate for another six years.

Dammit.

Quote of the Day for Saturday

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Because I’m going to the USPSA match, and probably won’t be posting anything tomorrow, and I don’t want to post-date this particular bit of linkage. From Dr. Sanity:

Eleven score and four years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Today we live in an Animal Farm world where our elites in Congress consider themselves more equal than you or I; and the wealth created by the productive people in our society is regularly redistributed to those who produce nothing; or, it is wasted on the pet projects of those preening elites who are certain that they know what is best for for everyone. In short, we (and our children and their children) are slowly but inexorably being transformed into slaves of the State.

From Our Very Own Little Country of Horrors which I urge you to read in its (brief) entirety.

Then skip down and read Between Brains, which is longer, deeper, and more important.

There are No Socialists in Our Government . . .

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. . . what a silly idea!

DISCLAIMER:

The list is of the Progressive Caucus, which isn’t affiliated with any socialist organization. Spun-up half-truth from WND.
Discussion @ http://www.theguncounter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13154 – Commenter “Fill”

There’s about a dime’s worth of difference between a modern “Progressive” and your run-of-the-mill socialist, but that’s not the same thing as being a proud card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Chris Byrne is right when he said:

“Now, once again, let me state an important political principle.

“When you use an argument, or cite a “fact” that you haven’t done the research on, you make yourself look like and idiot, and you hurt your own side.

“When you make a provably false statement, you make yourself look like an idiot, and you hurt your own side.

“When you cite a known crackpot, you make yourself look like an idiot, and you hurt your own side.

“When you use a well known discredited or provably false argument, you make yourself look like an idiot and you hurt your own side.”

I had planned to do more research on this before I hit “Post,” but I didn’t. Mea culpa.

American Socialist Voter–

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
A: Seventy

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?
A: See the listing below

Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Via Gateway Pundit.

Get that? That’s 70 out of 435 members of Congress willing to be identified as members of the Socialist Progressive Caucus, including Maxine “We’re Gonna Socialize You” Waters. Almost half of the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are self-identified members.

These are people who swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, yet in order to be Socialists, they must subvert that very document. The two philosophies ARE NOT COMPATIBLE.

But we’re constantly assured that there’s nothing to be worried about! The specter of socialism is merely a hobgoblin of The Cult™ created just to frighten the kiddies! (Dime’s worth of difference.)

Pitchforks and torches and rope, oh my!