The NRA Brags That They'll Work Out Of President GW Bush's Oval Office

[Octafish]

We didn't learn the lesson from Colorado from before Selection 2000:

The NRA Brags That They'll Work Out Of President GW Bush's Oval Office

by John Mintz
Washington Post, Thursday, May 4, 2000

The National Rifle Association's second-ranking officer boasted at a closed meeting of NRA members earlier this year that if Republican nominee George W. Bush wins in November, "we'll have . . . a president where we work out of their office."

First Vice President Kayne Robinson, who is in line to succeed NRA President Charlton Heston, added that the NRA enjoys "unbelievably friendly relations" with the Texas governor. Robinson, who is also chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, made the comments Feb. 17 before 300 members in Los Angeles. He also described 2000 as "a critical election" in which Bush's success would ensure "a Supreme Court that will back us to the hilt."

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Gun control groups say Bush has rarely strayed from NRA orthodoxy and for years has aggressively promoted its political platform. The NRA said it is proud of its ties to Bush.

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At the Los Angeles meeting, LaPierre expressed confidence that the GOP-led Congress will do what the NRA wants--even though the group briefly stumbled last year. [font color="green"]In the aftermath of last year's Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 students and a teacher were shot dead, the Senate humbled the NRA by voting to close a loophole under which firearms purchases at gun shows are exempt from background checks. Gore cast the crucial 51st vote, and gun control forces were exultant[/font color].

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/050400-01.htm

Then, the NRA's champion takes the Oval Office by a vote of 5-4, thanks to the GOP's partisan SCOTUS appointments.



The guy's kid and his veep know how to handle service revolvers, too.

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R - Thanks Octafish, these things need remembered.

[Octafish]

3. You are most welcome, Mnemosyne. If we don't remember...

...you know ABCNNBCBSFixedNoiseNutworks and the Texas School Book Board never will.

Samuel Prescott Bush



Father of Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather to George Herbert Walker Bush (Poppy), great-grandfather to George Walker Bush (Dubya).

Sam Bush was in his era to Remington Arms what Dick Cheney is to Halliburton in ours. Son of an Episcopal minister, he switched to a darker religion. Sam started out as low-management for railroads, where he made the connections needed to move over to Buckeye Steel Castings Company. Buckeye harbored railroad strike-breaker sentiment from the president on down. It's founder was member of the "Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery",[1] called a military and social organization, set up in 1878, the year after nationwide railroad strikes.

This guns and railroad connection returns for World War I, when Buckeye Steel produced gun barrels and shell casings, and Sam Bush was moved by his patrons into the position of chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board. Bush took national responsibility for government assistance to and relations with Remington and other weapons companies.[2] This was during the time that Buckeye Steel was casting gun barrels and Bush was president of Buckeye.

Preacher's son Bush looks innocent until you are informed that his patron, Percy Rockefeller took control of Remington Arms in 1914. Frank Rockefeller was president of Buckeye Steel for three years from 1905-1908, followed by Sam Bush from 1908-1927, throughout the WWI years and the gunbarrel sales era of Buckeye.[3] In 1915 a new Remington plant was constructed, operational by 1916 for the first world war, just in time to get a million rifle order from Russia.[4], [5] 67% of all the ammunition used in WWI by the US, Britain and Russia was sold by "Merchants of Death" Remington. Somebody got a no-bid contract on gun barrels for their company.

Pumping up nations war aspirations is good business for some, and the Bush family has been engaged in it for four generations.

Samuel Bush donated a son Prescott Sheldon Bush to the marriage of Dorothy Walker, daughter of George Herbert Walker. The name Walker thence comes in the middle of two George Bush presidents.

See George Herbert Walker's story for the other half of this history of where Bush Family Values were created.

SOURCE w/LINKS: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_Prescott_Bush

Something I believe the majority would agree with: Merchants of Death shouldn't rule.

[Mnemosyne]

5. A century later, no bid contracts are nothing new to these Merchants of Death.

Do we stand any chance against these creatures? They have been at it so long. I started watching them when I was a teenager in the early seventies, their power has only grown.

Thanks for the link, Octafish, much good info in that thread, leading to more good info.

[young_at_heart]

2. The NRA will always choose a Republican

over a Democrat. They simply loved the Bush family!

[Octafish]

4. It's weird. Both parties bend over backwards to appease the NRA.

Yet, the NRA does all they can to spin the facts to the GOP's favor.

11 Democrats defy the NRA on Holder

By TARINI PARTI |
Politico 6/28/12 7:18 PM EDT

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The NRA has contributed a total of $43,450 to the reelection campaigns of those 25 Democrats this cycle, according to numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics. Fourteen of them voted in favor of the criminal contempt resolution, eight voted against and three did not vote at all.

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The top Democrat to receive contributions from the NRA, Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), broke party ranks and voted in favor of holding Holder in contempt. The NRA contributed $5,000 to Ross’ campaign this year.

Along with Ross, Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.), Jason Altmire (D-Pa.), Mark Critz (D-Pa.), Ben Chandler (D-Ky.), Larry Kissell (D-N.C.), Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.), Jim Matheson (D-Utah), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn) all voted to hold Holder in contempt.

The NRA has said it was counting the Holder vote in its congressional scorecard. Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs for the NRA, said he couldn’t say for sure if the congressmen who voted against holding Holder in contempt would lose all future support.

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/06/democrats-defy-the-nra-on-holder-127678.html

Incredible stuff, money. Compared to what it does to politicians, it's better than guns.