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"Anyhow, that is my chip. That is the deal. Abolish abortion in return for some watering down of the Second Amendment. One time offer. Take it or leave it."
A while back, I put forward an idea for this state. It seems that we have been trouble getting the enhanced ID enough traction to make it universally popular. To test the waters, when my license update was due last December, I went ahead and upgraded to the enhanced driver's license. It was more money and more of a hassle. Many on my side of the aisle don't like it because it is too intrusive. And it was.
The bargain I proposed was this. We go ahead full bore with the enhanced ID. Everyone gets one. However, since this ID is so very important, we would also have this valid ID ready for identification purposes for many things. Like voting. Yes, Voter ID would be a part of enhanced ID. You need one to vote.
Right after I let that idea fly, I had some telling me I was mixing apples and oranges. I know I was. Others told me I had rocks in my socks. But who cares? Voter ID is STILL very important to a state which is plagued with voter fraud.
Here is my next grand bargain. This just came to me last night when we were visiting the kids. Right now the Left is all up in our business about getting guns off the street. "They are killing our kids!" they clamor about. The Right has come back with a real solution to school shootings - hardening the schools. The Left hates that idea. Meanwhile, both sides are talking, and nobody is listening. Just like after New Town, after a while the talk will stop, and we just wait for the next soft target to be hit.
I would like to propose something from a new viewpoint. This might be an opportunity to right a wrong which has been killing our very young people for decades now. It is killing more by orders of magnitudes than gun violence. Yes, I am talking about the taking of innocent life out of the womb - abortion on demand.
If we could make that illegal for once and for all, maybe, just maybe we could give up something very important to those on the Right. Maybe we could tinker around the edges of gun control. Like the limiting the size of magazines. Or maybe closing the gun show loop hole. Or raising the age to buy a gun. But that is as far as it goes. We would NOT give up our Second Amendment rights - just maybe just trim around the edges. To save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives through abortion, this might be worth the trade.
Trust me - I am a staunch Second Amendment guy. In fact, I fully support Constitutional Carry. But I am also a staunch Right to Life guy also. I want abortion ended like yesterday.
If the Left truly wants us to believe they are concerned about the children, they would jump on this deal. We could call it the Save the Children Act. But they are not. Abortion is their battle cry. And children are their pawns as they are only concerned with issues, not results. Being referred to as the "Party of Death" rolls off their backs just like water off a duck. So they would never go for the grand bargain. I wish they would, but they won't.
Anyhow, that is my chip. That is the deal. Abolish abortion in return for some watering down of the Second Amendment. This is a one time offer Di-Fi. Take it or leave it.
Deal unacceptable.
ReplyDeleteCounter offer-Outlaw private ownership of weapons of war and all of their accessories.
Keep your hunting equipment and personal protection weapons. Register them.
Submit to psychological testing.
Background checks for security violations.
Tattoo on your forehead a large G so you can be identified easily as a gun-toting radical.
Then we will end abortions beyond 1st trimester.
the dotard deal maker screwed up again...
ReplyDeletehe wouldn't know a tariff if it bit him in the hairpiece
a year ago, 45 announced an investigation into Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act which allows the US to restrict imports if national security was at stake.
Immediately, the exporting countries dumped millions of tons of steel on the US market, causing layoffs in steel mills in Harrisburg and Conshohocken and closure of a mill in Kentucky.
After that he announced tariffs on solar panels and washing machines, but these were paybacks to big donors. OK, I guess.
Now, the idiot has announced new steel tariffs, plummeting the stock market, raising auto prices and causing farmers grief as they fear the retaliation will be reduced grain exports.
Farmers already are facing reductions, as Mexico has dropped the US and turned to Brazil for grain imports, due to our waffling around NAFTA, along with the resignation of the US Ambassador to Mexico, who can't stomach his crap anymore.
Hopefully, saner heads will prevail and he'll back off. Maybe he just wanted to give the news something to talk about rather than his squeeze Hope Hicks deserting him or Jareds 500 million in nefarious loans that are coming under close scrutiny.
You call this guy a deal maker? BS
Now infrastucture is dead until 2019, DACA is renewed without change for 18 months. No legislation until spring of 2019.
What a country. And Russia has hyper-sonic missiles that can evade our defenses and we can't even sanction them for election meddling. Give me a break. We don't stand a chance of surviving this guy, let alone MAGA.
Steel-using industries employ 80 times as many people as steel-producing industries
ReplyDeleteThe risk comes from the potential ripple effects.
Affected countries may well retaliate by ordering tariffs on American goods, and they could carefully target goods to cause economic or political pain.
American exporters — whether they sell passenger airplanes or soybeans — should be nervous about the next shoe to fall.
There are few winners in an all-out trade war like one that enveloped the world economy in the 1930s.
The real risk isn’t that steel and aluminum are a bit more expensive, though that is likely to be the case.
It’s that an entire system of global trade, which the United States helped build, might be undermined.