13 March 2008

Gun Battle At The White House


Washington Post columnist Robert Novak looks at why two briefs stemming from the White House -- one by Solicitor General Clement that more or less supports DC's gun ban, and a second from Vice President Cheney and a big chunk of Congress that says overturn the ban -- differ so greatly.

"But if Bush agrees with Cheney, why did the president not simply order Clement to revise his brief? The answers: disorganization and weakness in the eighth year of his presidency. Consequently, a Republican administration finds itself against the most popular tenet of social conservatism: gun rights, which enjoy much wider agreement than do opposition to abortion or gay marriage, and Bush finds himself to the left of even Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama."

Read Novak's full column, then pass it along.

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