They successfully ambushed Paul Ryan. THEY GOT SPINES! #NoBillNoBreak [View all]

[TygrBright]

Took me a while to figure it out...

They're taking down Ryan.

Yes, the "#NoFlyNoBuy" bill is a teaspoon to empty an ocean. Is it a serious threat to the proliferation of gun violence? Not a bit. It will do very, very little in actual fact.

But the GOP has their marching orders from LaPierre and the NRA: NO LEGISLATIVE RESTRICTIONS OF ANY KIND. No votes on them, no meaningful discussion, even. The NRA operates on the "camel's nose" assumption and assume that any successful action at all, no matter how ineffectual, represents weakness and a step onto some "slippery slope" toward Second Amendment DOOM and TYRANNY! So, no action, AT ALL, is the demand of the deathtool oligarchs and their NRA mouthpieces.

This action, on the "No Fly, No Buy" bill may do almost nothing in any real sense, against gun violence. But they suckered Paul Ryan into suspending the session and turning off the cameras, which may well have been exactly what they wanted. Now it's building momentum. Nothing makes people suspicious and nosy like being told "you can't see that."

Ryan is boxed into a very tight corner, there are no good exits and no good options for him.

appreciatively,
Bright