Posted on 10/20/2017 12:21:53 PM PDT by richardb72
The Hill newspaper and Political have articles about how Democrats want to avoid discussing their views on gun control until after the 2018 mid-term elections. From The Hill:
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is urging his colleagues to stay away from gun control in the budget debate despite pressure from activist groups that argue the party needs to take a stand given the string of mass shootings across the country.
Schumer, focused on next year’s midterm elections, thinks it is smarter to focus on economics — specifically President Trump’s tax plan, which Democrats say is a giveaway to corporations and the rich, and GOP proposals to cut Medicare and Medicaid. . . .
In next year’s midterms, however, Democrats will be defending 10 seats in states won by Trump in last year’s election — including West Virginia, Montana and North Dakota, where guns are a big part of the local culture.
Schumer’s strategy is based, at least in part, on saving those seats and potentially winning back the Senate majority next year if Republicans falter badly. . . .
Politico also had this story from immediately after the Las Vegas attack:
It’s easy for them to lambaste Republicans for failing to take action after mass shootings. But elevating the issue heading into a midterm election next year — something Democrats said this week they have no plans to do — could repel the very voters they need to woo to regain control of Congress. Not to mention make their vulnerable red-state Democrats prime for Republican attacks. . . .
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Well, I guess we know what our campaign strategy will be!
Smart strategy... gun control doesn’t win Democrats votes.
Chuck-U knows its suicidal for them to bring it up.
No different from any of their other views.
A day late and a dollar short there Chuckie.
The reason they don’t have the confidence to express their views is their views worth about as much as a gallon of cyanide.
Yup
Sure...lie like hell, just like you always do....
Yeah, they have all made their views known by their previous votes. Like we are going to forget. The Internet never forgets.
Schumer is such a snake.
Too late Chuck ,Oh wait maybe you can hide you’re a Democrat as well
I hate that Shmuck more every time he opens his mouth!
ChuckU wants to be the gun salesman of the year?
So, they will lie? Have a public and a private, inside the beltway answer. That didn’t work so well for Clinton.
“Schumer is such a snake.”
Not much difference between his approach and that of those squishy republicans who also change their tune at election time as well to present themselves as more conservative.
This is swap creature behavior.
“For Pete’s sake don’t tell them what we intend to do.” Not exactly a rah-rah election strategy, is it, Chuckie?
I’m opposed to any form of federal tax cuts while federal spending is so out of control.
In fact, to fund the PPACA and other welfare state handouts, the tax on the upper middle class needs to be raised by 50% and on $1,000,000+ annual incomes doubled.
Since the companies’ money is out of federal reach, perhaps an annual share value tax of 2% of the shares of companies with liquid assets in excess of $1 billion could be levied on the domestic shareholders instead of handing out a massive tax giveaway to companies likely to create few new jobs in the USA.
So now even the Democrats admit that they have to hide their radical leftism to get elected. Amazing.
Isn’t that “swamp creature”?
Anyway, you’re right. For every Louie Gohmert there are at least fifty squishy Repubbies with Potomac Fever.
“Ì hate that Shmuck more every time he opens his mouth”
But he’s the perfect face for democrats in general and Screw York City in particular. Scum representing scum.
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