Buzzflash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week: Larry Craig

Well deserved, too......

"It's not often that a member of the NRA Board of Directors and a United States Senator shoots himself in the foot. After all, Senator Larry Craig of Idaho boasts being a member of the National Rifle Association "Winning Team" -- or after this week, more likely the NRA "Losing Team."
Craig, who has served on the gun lobby's board since 1983, usually carries the ammo for the NRA in the senate. For this reason, he introduced a piece of legislation to give the gun industry immunity from being liable for causing death and injury. It's the kind of sweetheart law anyone would want. I mean, wouldn't you want to be legally immune from responsibility for your own behavior?
But, a funny thing happened on the way to the shooting range, so to speak. After championing a gun industry "get out of court for free card" for years, Senator Craig told his gun guy supporters to vote against the bill on March 2nd when it finally came up for a vote. Are you confused yet?
Well, you see, Craig, being the GOP point man for "white males packing heat," said that he was upset that a couple of minor gun control amendments got attached to the bill during the legislative process. So he told the NRA lackeys in Congress to disembowel their own proposal."

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/03/edi04015.html

LOL

beaten like a rented mule...

There's nothing hilarious about cruelty to animals, even when it's presented as a metaphor.

Actually, I think you have it backwards...

You see, the gun industry didn't lose any ground. What did the gun industry lose? Nothing. S1805 was to help the industry from frivolous lawsuits, but it wasn't law yet, so the voting down of it didn't cause a loss. However, what did the anti-gunners lose? Well, they lost the AWB. According to Schumer, an amendment was the only vehicle by which the AWB could pass this year. He has acknowledged that if it wasn't tacked on to another bill, it would die. I don't see it being amended to any other pending bill before the end of July (when the Senate recesses until September 7th - a week before the AWB sunsets. I don't think a week is enough time to pass the AWB for which there's not enough support in the House.

"According to Schumer, an amendment was the only vehicle by which the AWB could pass this year."
Yeah? Let's see a link to that.

You never did say whether my answer to your question in Civil Rights back in December
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=113&topic_id=4298
was of assistance. In fact, you never said anything at all. Did I manage to help?

One of the last times you visited here, you quoted an entire thingy -- a book review from the anti-intellectual right-wing Toronto Sun, quoting with approval from the foreword to that book by the right-wing "intellectual" David Horowitz -- and said "Need any more be said?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=32499

How you feeling about David Horowitz and his crew in the Bush administration these days? You think that "left-wing" professors should be ousted from the faculty of public universities?


College Republicans sure like him:
http://www.goodspeedupdate.com/index-horowitz.htm

Oh, damn, following the tentacles is making me dizzy. At that site, I click on the financiers of Horowitz's Collegiate Network
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?recipientID=74
and I find the Scaife Foundations ... those ones financing Judicial Watch, as I recall, or was it the Mises Institute ... . And damned if it isn't the U of Michigan that Horowitz has under the microscope there, the same U of Michigan that one of Lew Rockwell's benefactor institutes wants to privatize ... .

Oh look ... Horowitz *is* the "Scaife Internet Network":
http://scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_scoobiedavis_archive.html#106412582590437519
Little did I know, it was "Richard Mellon Scaife".

What Democrats Face in 2004 from the Scaife Internet Network

I agree with Al Franken in his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (click here to buy the book and support this site) that right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife set the tone of political discourse for the last decade. Scaife has funded numerous “journalists” who planted stories in the mainstream media that supported Scaife’s paranoid conspiratorial worldview.

Most prominent was Scaife’s role in the discredited story that Bill Clinton was responsible for the death of Vince Foster. Scaife is also a devoted believer of the Free Republic staple and urban legend, the Clinton Body Count, the belief that Bill Clinton is responsible for the murder of dozens of people. Scaife is also responsible for the phony Troopergate scandal — in which Scaife-paid Arkansas troopers were paid by Scaife to spin lurid stories to Scaife-paid journalists/operatives. This incestuous relationship between parties paid by Scaife (who act as if they are working independently), is a common Scaife tactic. Scaife’s paranoid memes has metastasized largely because of the vast amounts of money that Scaife has used to pay people to promote his conspiracy theories.

Scaife’s Current Internet Network

Several of the Scaife-subsidized veterans of the Clinton wars are involved in the contemporary internet community. The three most prominent are Joseph Farah, Christopher Ruddy, and David Horowitz. These three represent Scaife’s influence on the web.

Wow ... wasn't I just saying something about "in-breeding" in one of these threads?

So if I can rest my dazzled eyes for a minute, I guess my question would be: have you noticed who's on your side yet? And has your discomfort level risen at all, if you hadn't previously noticed? (I mean, I don't know how you couldn't have noticed that you were quoting David Horowitz with approval that other time, but whatever.) Got the slightest sorta squirmy feeling coming over you now that you know?

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