I have been incredibly lazy lately in terms of my writing and researching...honestly I think because my discovery of hulu has virtually eliminated my viewing of streaming videos from C-SPAN. However, today I sort of "ran out" of things to watch on hulu and wandered back over to C-SPAN, where I decided to watch a 1-hour video from Wednesday of House debate on the so-called "Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights." Admittedly, I haven't really been following this issue very closely so I don't know much of what is in the bill. I was also wholly unaware of the great controversy surrounding Senator Tom Coburn's, R-Okla., insertion of an amendment into the Senate version of the bill regarding the possession of firearms inside of federal parklands. I learned about this only from the video I watched, because about half of the "debate" in the hour-long video was about this amendment. It was fairly predictable in that every Democrat who spoke about it was in "strong opposition" and the Republicans who spoke were "strongly in support." Blah, blah...what's new? There were 2 things that really bothered me about all of this...first, was the absolute indignation that each Democrat expressed at the Republicans for the "audacity" of inserting such an unrelated amendment into a credit card bill. Many mentioned "hijacking" and also "pork." Seriously? Talk about hypocritical...the way they were talking made it sound like Democrats never have done such a thing, and never would think of it!
The second thing that really bothered me was a bit more diffuse--some of the statements made by Democrats during this debate video about the amendment and the idea of guns/weapons in national parks, etc. Some of the things they said were, quite frankly, absolutely asinine. There is simply no other way to describe it. If one were to believe what these Democrats were saying, this amendment (if passed) would lead to utter chaos that would deter nearly anyone from ever visiting a national park or monument again. Just imagine driving through Yellowstone and encountering a bloody gang battle!!! One Democrat said something to the effect of "well, if we allow people to have guns in our national parks why don't we allow them to bring them to the White House, to the Capitol?" blah blah. I'll just let you see for yourself...
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1242879323&e=1242883223&n=1
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the reason to vote against this one is because it sounds bad in campaign ads, like "joe schmo voted in favor of allowing GUNS in national parks" then they'll juxtapose some family having a nice picnic with a picture of bunch of AK-47s and stuff.
also matt apologies but i have not yet had a chance to look up ted nugent's political views.
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