Friday, March 15, 2013

Everything but actually answering the question

Allahpundit at Hot Air gets, by way of commenting on Andrea Mitchell's reaction to it, to the essence of the exchange between Dianne Feinstein and Ted Cruz yesterday:

How many decades does she need as a “thought leader” in the Senate on gun control to be able to explain in a pinch why it’s not an infringement on the right to bear arms to ban certain types of weapons? The closest she gets to a legal point is mentioning the Heller decision in passing; the rest of it is all variations on “don’t you know who I am?”

This is the leftist method of persuasion:  raise the emotional pitch, in this case with "I've-seen-the-bodies" rhetoric, sufficiently to crowd out reason's primary role in formulating policy and crafting law.

11 comments:

  1. Does that mean we can buy nukes if we want, Sen. Cruz? If you say no, I say it's an infringement on our right to bear arms. Of course, no no never never uh uh uh to Iraq and North Korea and any other upstart nations trying to protect their own asses from a country that might invade them and has shown that it will, even under false pretenses.

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  2. And can we please buy our own personal drones too because we don't trust our own country right now with the wrong people in power and need to match fire power with fire power?

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  3. Why you think tyranny is the way for humanity to go is beyond me.

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  4. Tyrrany? This issue is being debated and will be voted on in our Congress like we have been handling it for 237 years.

    How does a deer come off at the dinner table after being slain by an assault weapon?

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  5. Breaking news here on the lover not a fighter front:

    Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, has switched his stand on same-sex marriage, saying he now supports it after his son told him he is gay. He is the only sitting Republican senator to so publicly embrace same-sex marriage.

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  6. I know it's either very late in the day or morning in America. Can we put that to a vote to or do we defer to that tyrant in heaven as He (She?) is understood by whom?

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  7. The tyranny remark comes from your justification of Iran and North Korea pursuing nuclear weapons. These are tyrannical regimes bent on posing a threat to global order.

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  8. I don't think that they look at it that way. They feel threatened by their enemies with the nukes. Hey, it's only human. It is the truth as I see it. Not sayin at all that I agree with their regimes which are both lying sacks of smellier than shit.

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  9. Why you think I think tyranny is the way to go is beyond me, but, oh well.

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  10. Breaking news on a liar and a fighter front, this one really cracks me up. Freedom lover busted for pot possession. Oh that urge to "get off" as you call it...

    A case of a pot-smoking lawmaker calling the kettle black?

    Katz, a 59-year-old Republican from Mohegan Lake, N.Y., was stopped for speeding on a state thruway in Coeymans, on Thursday morning. After noting the odor of marijuana, a State Trooper found "a small bag of marijuana" in Katz's possession, New York State police said in a statement.

    According to the paper, Katz was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

    In a statement obtained by the New York Times, Katz called the incident "unfortunate."

    Read more at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57574652-504083/anti-drug-ny-assemblyman-steven-katz-arrested-for-marijuana-possession-report-says/

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  11. This should not overshadow the work I have done over the years for the public and my constituency," he reportedly said, adding, "I am confident that once the facts are presented that this will quickly be put to rest."

    Katz, who is a veterinarian by trade, is a member of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee. According to The Times, he voted against a bill in 2012 that would have legalized medical marijuana.

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