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Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:08 pm
by Kythas
Democrat members of the Iowa legislature have fled Iowa to an "undisclosed location" so they don't have to hold debate on gun bills being advanced by Republicans.

Why is it only Democrats do this? Republicans have never, as far as I know, fled to avoid debating issues with which they disagree. I can think of three instances in three states where Dems have done this in the last few years.

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/ ... -location/

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:32 pm
by hi-power
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"For Democrats, political courage is like most vintage French World War II era MAS-36 rifles: never fired and only dropped once." ~Dr. Milton R. Wolf, The Washington Times

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:37 pm
by philip964
I guess we are part of the "Wild Wild West"

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:28 pm
by old farmer
:tiphat:
"The short notice hindered Democrats from offering amendments to improve the bills, McCarthy said."
"rlol" "rlol" "rlol" "rlol"

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:43 pm
by RPB
Quick, let's all run, hide-head-in-sand ... ok we're safe now I can't see any danger or threat, can you?.
It's like a belief system.

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:10 pm
by EconDoc
old farmer wrote::tiphat:
"The short notice hindered Democrats from offering amendments to improve the bills, McCarthy said."
"rlol" "rlol" "rlol" "rlol"
Right. They wanted to offer amendments that would have gutted them of any substantive meaning and made them purely symbolic. Leftists either intend to do very bad things to ordinary citizens, or they are so filled with contempt for citizens that they believe that none of us can be trusted with anything important. Either way, their attitude is despicable, reprehensible, and dastardly.

:patriot: :txflag:

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:36 pm
by smoothoperator
It's been said before and it's as true as ever. They're not good people with bad ideas.

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:33 pm
by Dragonfighter
Why are these "strikes" tolerated and not prosecuted for breach of the public trust or something?

Re: Iowa Dems Flee Capitol To Avoid Gun Legislation

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:44 pm
by VoiceofReason
Quick, change the locks and start recall petitions. :lol: