Brady Campaign Filed Suit To Stop Concealed Guns In Park

The Department of the Interior issued a new rule allowing concealed guns in National Parks, as long as the states that house the parks permit concealed weapons. The final rule is here. The Brady Campaign has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the new rule. The Brady brief is here.

Maxine Waters Played On Lou Dobbs' Incompetence

Here is Maxine Waters on Lou Dobbs Program on December 11, 2008.

Here is Maxine Waters on October 6, 2004 saying (a) there are no problems with mortgages and (b) championing mortgages under relaxed standards.

Mr. Dobbs needs to do his homework.

Senate Democrats Kill Auto Bailout Bill

On December 11, 2008, the Senate failed to muster the 60 votes needed to end debate so that it could vote on the Auto Bailout Bill. The vote was 52-35, eight short of the sixty needed. Reliance on media reports would lead one to believe that Republican senators single-handedly killed the bill.

Voting to end debate were 40 Democrats, 10 Republicans and 2 Independents. Voting not to end debate were 31 Republicans and 4 Democrats. Four Democrats did not vote, Biden, Wyden, Kennedy and Kerry. If they had voted, it is likely they would have voted to end debate and that would have been 56 votes to end debate. Considering that four Democrats voted no, the failure to end debate came about because the Democratic Senate Caucus was unable to get all its members to vote and was unable to persuade all its members to vote to end debate.