It just might work

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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

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Nobody is speculating on this

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Top shelf PSH

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Top shelf PSH from Linda Stasi in her op-ed, “State Department must list gun-loving NRA as terrorist organization“:

“One terrorist group is responsible for more civilian deaths since December 2012 (the Sandy Hook massacre) than Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and the Taliban. Yet it is the only nearly-state sponsored terrorist group that is not listed by the U.S. State Department as such. It is the National Rifle Association and for their unending lobbying that’s kept a lid on gun control we now have 428 times more American deaths by gun than deaths by foreign terrorists …”

This is why the Daily News is losing tens of millions of dollars a year and just fired a bunch of people.

We already know the answer

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State Senator Ruben Diaz asks a good question:

“… “Last night, I watched President Barack Obama speak on national television about the massacre at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. I was seriously disappointed that our President did not even mention that the victims of that slaughter were singled out and killed because they were Christians … How can it be that when other groups are targeted, they get the attention of the President of the United States, but when the victims are Christians, that fact is not even mentioned in his speech? …”

Diaz already knows the answer:  Because the President was busy trying to use the incident to push gun control and unconcerned about little things like the killer’s motivation that might divert attention away from his self aggrandizing screed where Obama referred to himself 28 times in half as many minutes.