Keeping Up Those "A" Ratings

In a chat session this month with the liberal magazine Texas Monthly, Cornyn revealed he and Lindsay Graham will introduce a bill strengthening the NICS federal gun owner registration database and place more Americans on lifetime gun ban lists. [More] 

Some in the "gun establishment" have been itching to use this as a sellout point since right after Newtown. I was privy to some insider conversations where the sentiment was our legislators have to give their constituents something.  We know NSSF is behind it, and through a combination of carefully crafted weasel words here and tactical silence there, so is NRA.

I haven't seen the bill (I didn't find it yet on GovTrack) to compare how it actually reads against the allegations, but that doesn't change my position of not giving anything up through preemptive surrender. I don't care what it says, if it cedes an inch, then no.

They're feeling bold enough to do this because it's been green-lighted, and probably written, by the same genius minds who sold out "undetectable guns" and, years earlier, normal capacity magazines, a betrayal that would have given a distinct market advantage to positioned insiders.

Hey, remember when NRA was dragged kicking and screaming into promising they would score the Sotomayor vote?  Lindsey? And Kagan? Lindsey?

How come they still give him an "A"?

Too bad some of us weren't successful at ginning up enough support when it was Holder's turn at bat, which was also good for Lindsey.


I'm sure I'll have more to say about this later.