slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

A recent editorial from the Waco Tribune Herald...

From what we’ve seen on Capitol Hill this week, we’ve decided to add a question to any further interviews we do with legislative candidates, federal or state: “Do you solemnly swear to resist the temptation to engage in cheap political stunts, petty political payback or other demeaning displays of immaturity that raise questions about the sanity of us in the home district who placed you in a position of power?”

This newspaper believes wholeheartedly in the Second Amendment. We also believe it’s absolutely crazy to vehemently insist that the mass shooting deaths in Orlando this month are terrorism — and then turn around and resist at least some well-intentioned efforts to block suspected terrorists among us from getting their hands on firearms.

Sure, determined terrorists defeated by such laws can probably get their firearms through illicit means. But the point is we don’t need to make it any easier for them to get guns — and such a law, of course, shouldn’t block any law-abiding person from procuring a gun.

Unfortunately, the lack of cooperation in the U.S. Senate on Monday — when no less than four gun-control measures (Republican and Democrat) were voted down — devolved into childishness over in the House. Democrats decided to undermine the stature of the Republican-run chamber by staging a loud sit-in to demand votes on gun legislation.

If the Democrats’ PR stunt wasn’t bad enough, Republican leadership then reacted with pettiness, stingily shutting down the cameras which C-SPAN uses to cover the Capitol — the same cameras that routinely broadcast each and every screwball speech given by Texas Republican Louis Gohmert. In response, Democrats employed streaming video from cellphones to show a chamber in full rancor (which C-SPAN broadcast).

And if that weren’t enough, our own congressman, Republican Bill Flores, head of the resolutely conservative Republican Study Committee, reportedly had to restrain Gohmert during the latter’s screaming match with equally unhinged Democrats about whether “radical Islam” was the cause of 49 Orlando deaths this month.

No American should tolerate any of this. Extremists on either side are making it impossible for grownups among the elected to discuss compromise and address problems, whether immigration, selecting Supreme Court justices or keeping guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists (while, yes, ensuring due process to safeguard Second Amendment rights).

Two more bills to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists failed Thursday, this time both Republican in origin. In 10 days, these lawmakers will wax eloquent about the Founders on the Fourth of July. In doing so, they will show only how short they themselves truly measure up.

Babsan

I thought this was exactly what the DEMOCRATS are,little sulky children and a disgrace .Sombody should have sent some pacifiers top these vermin sitting there

Loki Loc: Georgia

Or old fashioned sugar tits. The problem lies with the Democrats' and some Republicans' insistence on trying to pass unrealistic laws. Laws that will be haphazardly enforced, just like the ones we currently have. There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of so-called "assault rifles" in private hands right now. A tiny fraction of one percent of them will ever be used in a crime. Democrats would "ban" rifles that already number in the hundreds of thousands, at the least. How do you propose to enact a "ban" that works? You cannot confiscate property that was purchased legally in good faith. To declare something illegal for the purpose of confiscating it from the owner who purchased it legally is stomping all over the Law of Fraudulent Transactions.

Does anyone realize that there have been around 40,000 AR type rifles sold since Orlando? Has everyone forgotten that there are at least 80 million gun owners in this country, and once more, a tiny, tiny fraction of one percent of them will ever commit gun crimes, yet Liberals would punish everyone for the crimes of the few. An inalienable right is or isn't. If it isn't then it is not a right at all, but a privilege to be granted or denied at the whim of the government in power.

Wolf counselor Loc: Heart of Texas

I'm surprised that anyone remembers romper room.

http://www.google.com/search?site=webhp&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=AepvV_fpFci-jwS08KfgBg&q=romper+room&oq=romper&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.2.0l5.1995.4100.0.5376.7.7.0.3.3.0.393.1202.0j6j0j1.7.0....0...1c.1j4.64.mobile-gws-hp..0.7.648.3..41.uH2XlMpIucQ

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I presumed that, with the average age of the OPP crowd, many would.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Good article Slatten.
Couldn't agree more.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Geeeze I can still hear ( whats her names ) voice talking baby talk to the children.
If she were alive today she'd probably be a Congress-Women. Democrat of course. sm09: :
Oops. My stomach just flipped a little.

XLCH

Not Romper Room is Rumper Room with all Jack-Asses sitting on the floor !!

Loki Loc: Georgia

I thought Romper Room was actually Congress back when they still had manners and tried to act like grownups.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

How can you remember back that far...not to Romper Room, but for that kind of behavior in Congress by either/both sides

Loki Loc: Georgia

Past life regression therapy?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Through hypnosis, or while in a drunker stupor

The technique of past life regression often uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. In certain posters, I suspect confabulation. Though you are not one of 'em, I'll bet you could come up with at least one candidate who confabulates.

Babsan

Loki Loc: Georgia

I can come up with a bunch who prevaricate. Is that close enough?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Well, it certainly widens the field to choose from, not being limited to those with distorted or imaginative memories.