“The
reason President
Obama's gun control proposals were killed [is] because hundreds of
thousands of Americans began slamming the phone lines, and all of the
Senators that were leaning towards supporting it
suddenly said, ‘Holy cow, the folks back home don't like this.’ [There]
is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are
engaged and letting our voice be heard.”
-- Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), June 19, 2013
-- Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), June 19, 2013
Your
grassroots efforts are making a world of difference on Capitol Hill.
But we need to keep the pressure on if we are going to defeat the
anti-gun amnesty bill.
We’ve asked you repeatedly to focus your attention on the Senate bill; today, we take a brief look at the House.
But first, here’s a brief update on White House efforts to resurrect gun
control.
Biden’s plug goes virtually ignored by media
If a tree
falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
We’ll never know. Joe Biden’s Tuesday
press conference to renew his push for gun control went almost
completely unreported. The notable exception was an MSNBC report that
the NSA scandal made gun control less likely than before.
The
liberal media, instead, spent the last couple of days lamenting that
“the air had been take out of the push for [the anti-gun immigration
bill].”
What will Boehner do on anti-gun amnesty?
While
pro-gun House members held an anti-amnesty press conference,
your calls and e-mails to “swing” senators lowered the chances that key
members of the Senate GOP might go for a do-nothing sell-out
“compromise.”
As Senator Ted Cruz told Rush Limbaugh yesterday, “[There] is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.”
All
the while, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters, to their horror,
that he wouldn’t bring an anti-gun amnesty bill to the floor over the
objections of a majority of House Republicans. According to anti-gun
reporter Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post: “That’s a real tough one.”
And California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher predicted that Boehner would lose his job if he violated
that pledge.
So have we won yet?
Boehner
was asked by anti-gun
reporters whether he might send a conservative immigration bill to a
House-Senate conference –- and allow the conference to turn it into an
anti-gun monstrosity. When asked whether he might rely on Democrats to
pass an anti-gun conference report, Boehner replied: “We’ll see when we
get there.”
So that’s
today’s task: To make sure Boehner doesn’t use an anti-gun
House-Senate conference to circumvent Republicans in the House.
ACTION: Click here to contact your
Representative. Ask him to insure that no House-passed immigration bill be sent to conference with an anti-gun amnesty bill from the
Senate.
Done.
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