Cuomo admits it

Gov. Cuomo finally admits gun control cost him politically:

“… Cuomo focused largely on Sanders’ 2005 vote in favor of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which first extended the immunity to firearms manufacturers. Lehrer asked Cuomo if it was acceptable for Sanders to support the bill … Cuomo said it wasn’t, pointing to his own popularity dip … “Not when Bernie Sanders looks at the camera and says this is about doing what’s right and doing what’s tough, even if it’s not politically popular at the polls, blah blah blah,” Cuomo said. “I know the politics of this. I represent New York state. Upstate New York and Vermont and rural communities, I know the political price because I’ve paid it, Brian.” …”

The price being ending his presidential aspirations, not to mention bad karma in the form of Preet Bharara.

Good for him

Former Senator Jim Webb isn’t likely to win the Democrat nomination for president, but he didn’t back down from his previous NRA rating at last nights debate:

It just might work

If only the antis had more than astroturf:

Manhattan State Senator Liz Krueger today laid out a novel strategy to undermine opposition to new restrictions on firearms—having gun control supporters join the pro-gun National Rifle Association and act as a Trojan horse … “I might propose another cultural approach: all of us who actually care about gun violence might want to join the NRA, and create our own forum within the NRA to say ‘we don’t agree with their current policy,’” she said … “I actually think we outnumber them, by the way. And if, maybe if we all join, and created our own platform, we could switch the dialogue, even within an organization who I think has done so much harm,” she said …”

Krueger has never expressed any interest in having a dialogue about New York’s gun laws during her time in Albany.

Soon after she was first elected, she hooked up with then Senator Eric Schneiderman and I always had the impression she was jonesing for a leadership position.  Reading this article reminded me that she is not bright enough for that.

Maloney Happens

Nobody is speculating on this

No:

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) withdrew from the race for House Speaker on Thursday afternoon, causing some to speculate whether Rep. Peter King (R-New York) might emerge as the next front-runner for the position vacated by John Boehner …”

This is the least serious story I’ve read in some time.

Endorsement for Paul Czajka

Paul Czajka is running for re-election as District Attorney in Columbia County.

We endorsed him for re-election. Here is one of the reasons why:

Telling it like it is

Telling it like it is:

“… Tom King, an NRA board member from New York who also heads the state Rifle and Pistol Association, called Cuomo’s comments “pure political theater.” “The governor is using a tragedy out in Oregon to try and rejuvenate a failed political career,” King said. “He’s trying to build it on the graves of the people who were killed up there.” …”

Bullseye!

“… Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa called it “disappointing but not surprising that Tom King would resort to baseless personal attacks rather than discuss the merits of common sense gun control — it’s easier than confronting the fact that more than 80,000 people have died due to gun violence since Sandy Hook.” …”

Direct hit and Cuomo knows it.

Nobody was paying attention to him anyway

A few days ago Governor Cuomo called for a government shutdown unless Congress passed more gun control.

He’s backpeddling now:

“… “I didn’t call for a government shutdown,’’ Cuomo said Monday on WNYC, a New York City radio station …”

The internet says he did:

“Gov. Cuomo, speaking at the funeral of his murdered aide Saturday, urged Washington Democrats to shut down the government until they get a gun control bill that works …”

Cuomo is forced to retreat as nobody was paying any attention to him.

Already tried and failed with this

Hillary’s “new” gun control proposal:

“The day after the shooting that killed nine people at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, Hillary Clinton called for a “national movement” strong enough to rival the National Rife Association, which she described as “an intense, dedicated group” of gun lobbyists who “scare politicians and say, ‘We will vote against you.’” Clinton, who has made new gun restrictions a regular feature of her speeches on the campaign trail, addressed the shooting at a rally in Florida on Friday … “Here’s what the other side counts on,” Clinton said. “They count on really having an intense, dedicated group that scare politicians and say, ‘We will vote against you.’” Republicans, she told supporters, “put the NRA ahead of American families.” … What Democrats need, she said, is a “national movement” to pass “new, effective gun control measures,” like her husband President Bill Clinton’s in the ’90s …”

This is the exact same thing the antis have tried and failed at for decades.  Bloomberg said last year he’d put up $50 million to create a grassroots counterpart to the NRA and all that money could buy was a re-branding of the same old astroturf.

DNC video attacks GOP candidates on guns

This video by the DNC shows why gun control is not a national issue. It is really lame and you can tell their heart is not in it.