True Courage!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Courageous Senators Stand Up to American People

WASHINGTON — In the halls of the United States Senate, dozens of Senators congratulated themselves today for having what one of them called “the courage and grit to stand up to the overwhelming wishes of the American people.”

“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”

“It was a gut check, for sure, but we had to draw a line in the sand,” agreed Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S. Carolina). “If we had voted the way the American people wanted us to, it would have sent the message that we’re here in Washington to be nothing more than their elected representatives.”

Calling yesterday’s Senate action “a bipartisan effort,” Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) said, “This proves that on a matter that affects the safety of every man, woman, and child in the nation, we can reach across the aisle to defy the interests of all of them.”

Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”

[Karee 4,190]

I know that article is meant as satire, but in reality the way they voted on that bill will have little to no effect on their chances for re-election, and they know it. I suspect what the American people want is pretty low on their priority list.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I know that article is meant as satire, but in reality the way they voted on that bill will have little to no effect on their chances for re-election, and they know it. I suspect what the American people want is pretty low on their priority list.

If that was true, why is there an NRA? I mean, I know why there was an NRA, and why I joined as a young man. And then the gun nutters took over, and there were membership drives that let any warm body join and committees to influence legislation that was contrary to the original purpose of the NRA. I know why I left, and joined another group, because the NRA no longer appealed to the responsible sportsmen that built the organization.