{"id":1082,"date":"2010-03-22T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:20:03","slug":"food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Food for thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickmorris.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Morris<\/a> said something on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> last week that I think could be important to gun control legislation in Congress. \u00a0He said that the Democrats know they&#8217;re going to get spanked by the voters in November one way or another over Obamacare, so they&#8217;re going to vote for it anyway and make history. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/21\/house-leaders-make-impassioned-pleas-final-health-care-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Which they did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With their fate pretty much sealed, it occurs to me that the Democrats may decide again to go for history and push a broad gun control agenda in Congress. \u00a0They now have nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D1082&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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