Press release:
“The ISRA has learned from a credible source that Illinois Senate President John Cullerton [above] will
introduce a so called ‘assault weapons’ ban on Wednesday when the
legislature returns for its ‘lame duck’ session. Cullerton hopes to
ramrod the bill through and get it to Governor Quinn for signature by
Friday. If he is successful at doing so, nearly every gun you currently
own will be banned and will be subject to confiscation by the Illinois
State Police . . .
“Based on what we know about Cullerton’s bill, firearms that would be
banned include all semiautomatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Pump
action shotguns would be banned as well. This would be a very
comprehensive ban that would include not only so-called ‘assault
weapons’ but also such classics as M1 Garands and 1911-based pistols.
There would be no exemptions and no grandfathering. You would have a
very short window to turn in your guns to the State Police to avoid
prosecution.”
TTAG’s sources tell us there will be two bills: one for
semi-automatic rifles, lever guns, shotguns and handguns with certain
features (e.g., threaded barrels); and one for ammunition magazine
capacity.
Mags would be limited to 10 rounds and owners of existing magazines
holding more than 10 rounds would have to register them with the state
police.
One [non-ISRA] gun guy on the front lines in the Land of Lincoln
tells TTAG that the odds of the bills going through are 50 – 50. He
advises gun owners both in and out of state to call Senate President
Cullerton at 217 782 2000 and/or find another legislator to pester at ilga.gov.
“If gun owners around the country melt the phone lines in the next
three days we can push this thing back . . . that would be a tremendous
morale boost ahead of federal legislation.”
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/01/robert-farago/breaking-illinois-bill-to-ban-all-modern-firearms/
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Distraction 101
What a tangled web the White House weaves. Benghazi is a word that the media and President wish you would forget. Keep this all in your brain for future use. Rice has pulled her name from contention for Secretary of State. Hilary has fallen and can't get back up. Her concussion will keep her from testifying. Not only that she is slated to be replaced by John "why the long face" Kerry. He will be the one who has to tackle this tough issue. Being the new SoS he will not have any answers. As it was best said by the Madagascar Penguins "smile and wave boys, smile and wave".
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sad X 2
I would never ever want to minimize the tragedy that took place in CT. What those families are dealing with is unimaginable. My heart truly goes out to them.
However I do feel compelled to say something about the larger issue. The President and his media minions cannot let this opportunity pass. He and they alike have taken full advantage of the tragedy to once again talk about gun control in the United States. Why would any of us expect anything different. The left has proven time and time again that the constitution has no value. This would be just another example of how they spit on it.
Taking guns out of the hands of good guys, only empowers bad guys. We all know that law following citizens would be those who would suffer the most from any type of gun control.
Lets look at all of the high profile examples that innocent people were killed by nut jobs. Virginia Tech ( a gun free zone ) no honest person was on that college campus with a fire arm. Naturally, the loser who did the killing did not stop when he read the sign "no guns allowed". He was a law breaker, they ignore the rules. He walked in and shot. Not one person there was able to return fire.
Denver movie theater, again a "no gun" business. If just one of those people had a gun, maybe one less person would have lost their life.
Let's arm the principals. Train them to use a gun. Create a deterrent. We the people have the right to bear arms. Let us use that right to defend ourselves from enemies foreign and domestic.
However I do feel compelled to say something about the larger issue. The President and his media minions cannot let this opportunity pass. He and they alike have taken full advantage of the tragedy to once again talk about gun control in the United States. Why would any of us expect anything different. The left has proven time and time again that the constitution has no value. This would be just another example of how they spit on it.
Taking guns out of the hands of good guys, only empowers bad guys. We all know that law following citizens would be those who would suffer the most from any type of gun control.
Lets look at all of the high profile examples that innocent people were killed by nut jobs. Virginia Tech ( a gun free zone ) no honest person was on that college campus with a fire arm. Naturally, the loser who did the killing did not stop when he read the sign "no guns allowed". He was a law breaker, they ignore the rules. He walked in and shot. Not one person there was able to return fire.
Denver movie theater, again a "no gun" business. If just one of those people had a gun, maybe one less person would have lost their life.
Let's arm the principals. Train them to use a gun. Create a deterrent. We the people have the right to bear arms. Let us use that right to defend ourselves from enemies foreign and domestic.
Friday, December 14, 2012
The End is Nigh
One week from today is our next MNCC meeting. Questions? Post to the blog and I will get back to you.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Congressman's view: President blames Republicans but is the one holding the economy hostage
Republicans have put revenue on the table to
a level the President once sought. Now he says double it. We have shown
a willingness to negotiate. It is the president who has announced
positions that are non-negotiable. It is the president who continues to
divide the country. He is showing a willingness to tank our fragile
economy and send it back into recession. It is he who is holding the
economy hostage.
By: U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack, special to the News Tribune
“Fiscal cliff” is a term repeated so often many Americans cringe
when they hear it. Although hearing about it is grating, it is critical
everyone comprehend what is at stake, how we got here, and what is
preventing us from confronting this perfect fiscal storm.
Some brief history may provide insight. The “cliff” did not suddenly appear. It has been years in the making. Getting the most attention is the expiration of tax cuts passed a decade ago during President George W. Bush’s first term. Those tax rate cuts, referred to as the “Bush Tax Cuts,” helped everyone.
Two years ago, almost to the day, President Obama agreed to extend the existing tax rates for two more years. The president, while signing the extension, called maintaining the existing tax rates “a substantial victory for middle-class families across the country.” He said the tax cuts “will grow our economy and will create jobs for the American people.” He said it was not the time to be raising people’s taxes.
Apparently he doesn’t believe that anymore.
Also two years ago, the president formed a debt commission to at least begin addressing what is obvious to everyone: our country’s deteriorating financial condition. The Bowles-Simpson Commission worked diligently and compiled a detailed bipartisan report that contained more than $4 trillion in proposed spending cuts and tax increases to attack our mounting debt, a balanced approach if you will. What did the president and the Congress do with the commission’s report? Nothing. It was completely ignored, and the debt has continued to grow. Our national debt now exceeds $16 trillion, and we are on the fast track to $20 trillion and beyond.
Last year brought another significant aspect of the pending “cliff.” It was the Budget Control Act of 2011. The act amounted, again, to inaction. During the contentious debt-ceiling debate in late July 2011, an agreement was reached whereby a select committee was formed to work out a compromise between the two bodies of Congress. In order to compel an agreement, Congress decided to include provisions in the act that were thought to be so onerous both sides would fear the fallout if an agreement was not reached. Failure would result in automatic cuts amounting to more than $1 trillion with half coming from Defense budgets and the other half coming from social programs over the next 10 years. What happened? The committee failed and here we are with no plan to bring the debt under control.
So what stands in the way of compromise? Strip away the finger-pointing for a moment and some things have become apparent. The president refuses to lead in any serious way. He seems comfortable with his “lead from behind” style. Proposals he has made do not address our massive fiscal problems. On the contrary; what he has proposed would, if adopted, make matters much worse.
One of the president’s proposals is for the federal government to not have a debt ceiling. He sent Tim Geithner, his Treasury Secretary, to Capitol Hill last week to advocate that there should be no limit to what the federal government can spend; it should be infinite, endless.
Really? Infinite debt? Is there any thinking person who doesn’t see the fiscal irresponsibility in that? Yet this is what the administration offers as an idea to address our debt crisis. Common sense has gone out the window.
Some numbers the president has chosen to ignore include 99-0 and 414-0. Those were the results of votes taken in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House earlier this year when Congress decisively rejected the president’s “blueprint” for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Notice the zeroes. No one bought it. It was a total, complete, bipartisan rejection of what the president proposed to do.
One has to marvel at the president’s relentless attempt to twist the argument in such a way that portrays Republicans as standing in the way of extending tax cuts for the middle class when it is the Republican position to extend existing tax rates for everyone. Republicans want to make the current tax rates permanent for all taxpayers. That would include the middle class.
Republicans have put revenue on the table to a level the President once sought. Now he says double it. We have shown a willingness to negotiate. It is the president who has announced positions that are non-negotiable. It is the president who continues to divide the country. He is showing a willingness to tank our fragile economy and send it back into recession. It is he who is holding the economy hostage.
Why is he willing to do this? He is convinced the American public will again buy his rhetoric that Republicans are to blame. He sees the numbers that re-elected him to a second term last month and believes he can continue to get away with his divisive class-warfare rhetoric. Hopefully, he is wrong.
My message all along, and those of my Republican colleagues, has been clear. We have to stop spending money we don’t have. We have stated repeatedly that we have to stop kicking the proverbial can down the road. Our pleas for fiscal sanity seem to fall on deaf ears or they just evaporate into the ether. Half the country sees what’s happening and dreads about the financial calamity that is inevitable if we stay on our current course. Yet the other half of the country seems either oblivious to it, sees it but doesn’t fully comprehend it and therefore chooses to ignore it, or sees it and understands it but doesn’t care.
I care.
I care very deeply about the country we are leaving our children, a sentiment I believe is shared by all. I don’t want to see us or them buried under a growing mountain of debt. The serious debate and the decisions the president and the Congress have been putting off are needed more today than ever, and it is a mistake if we continue to resort to the practice of ignoring the problem.
I urge the president to join us, work with us and not bring the country to financial ruin, something which at the moment he seems intent on doing.
U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack represents Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, including Duluth and Northeastern Minnesota, in the U.S. House.
By: U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack, special to the News Tribune
U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack
Some brief history may provide insight. The “cliff” did not suddenly appear. It has been years in the making. Getting the most attention is the expiration of tax cuts passed a decade ago during President George W. Bush’s first term. Those tax rate cuts, referred to as the “Bush Tax Cuts,” helped everyone.
Two years ago, almost to the day, President Obama agreed to extend the existing tax rates for two more years. The president, while signing the extension, called maintaining the existing tax rates “a substantial victory for middle-class families across the country.” He said the tax cuts “will grow our economy and will create jobs for the American people.” He said it was not the time to be raising people’s taxes.
Apparently he doesn’t believe that anymore.
Also two years ago, the president formed a debt commission to at least begin addressing what is obvious to everyone: our country’s deteriorating financial condition. The Bowles-Simpson Commission worked diligently and compiled a detailed bipartisan report that contained more than $4 trillion in proposed spending cuts and tax increases to attack our mounting debt, a balanced approach if you will. What did the president and the Congress do with the commission’s report? Nothing. It was completely ignored, and the debt has continued to grow. Our national debt now exceeds $16 trillion, and we are on the fast track to $20 trillion and beyond.
Last year brought another significant aspect of the pending “cliff.” It was the Budget Control Act of 2011. The act amounted, again, to inaction. During the contentious debt-ceiling debate in late July 2011, an agreement was reached whereby a select committee was formed to work out a compromise between the two bodies of Congress. In order to compel an agreement, Congress decided to include provisions in the act that were thought to be so onerous both sides would fear the fallout if an agreement was not reached. Failure would result in automatic cuts amounting to more than $1 trillion with half coming from Defense budgets and the other half coming from social programs over the next 10 years. What happened? The committee failed and here we are with no plan to bring the debt under control.
So what stands in the way of compromise? Strip away the finger-pointing for a moment and some things have become apparent. The president refuses to lead in any serious way. He seems comfortable with his “lead from behind” style. Proposals he has made do not address our massive fiscal problems. On the contrary; what he has proposed would, if adopted, make matters much worse.
One of the president’s proposals is for the federal government to not have a debt ceiling. He sent Tim Geithner, his Treasury Secretary, to Capitol Hill last week to advocate that there should be no limit to what the federal government can spend; it should be infinite, endless.
Really? Infinite debt? Is there any thinking person who doesn’t see the fiscal irresponsibility in that? Yet this is what the administration offers as an idea to address our debt crisis. Common sense has gone out the window.
Some numbers the president has chosen to ignore include 99-0 and 414-0. Those were the results of votes taken in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House earlier this year when Congress decisively rejected the president’s “blueprint” for the Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Notice the zeroes. No one bought it. It was a total, complete, bipartisan rejection of what the president proposed to do.
One has to marvel at the president’s relentless attempt to twist the argument in such a way that portrays Republicans as standing in the way of extending tax cuts for the middle class when it is the Republican position to extend existing tax rates for everyone. Republicans want to make the current tax rates permanent for all taxpayers. That would include the middle class.
Republicans have put revenue on the table to a level the President once sought. Now he says double it. We have shown a willingness to negotiate. It is the president who has announced positions that are non-negotiable. It is the president who continues to divide the country. He is showing a willingness to tank our fragile economy and send it back into recession. It is he who is holding the economy hostage.
Why is he willing to do this? He is convinced the American public will again buy his rhetoric that Republicans are to blame. He sees the numbers that re-elected him to a second term last month and believes he can continue to get away with his divisive class-warfare rhetoric. Hopefully, he is wrong.
My message all along, and those of my Republican colleagues, has been clear. We have to stop spending money we don’t have. We have stated repeatedly that we have to stop kicking the proverbial can down the road. Our pleas for fiscal sanity seem to fall on deaf ears or they just evaporate into the ether. Half the country sees what’s happening and dreads about the financial calamity that is inevitable if we stay on our current course. Yet the other half of the country seems either oblivious to it, sees it but doesn’t fully comprehend it and therefore chooses to ignore it, or sees it and understands it but doesn’t care.
I care.
I care very deeply about the country we are leaving our children, a sentiment I believe is shared by all. I don’t want to see us or them buried under a growing mountain of debt. The serious debate and the decisions the president and the Congress have been putting off are needed more today than ever, and it is a mistake if we continue to resort to the practice of ignoring the problem.
I urge the president to join us, work with us and not bring the country to financial ruin, something which at the moment he seems intent on doing.
U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack represents Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, including Duluth and Northeastern Minnesota, in the U.S. House.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Interesting.
Thanks Scarecrow for the link. http://www.brotherjohnf.com/archives/91573
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