Constitutional Law

Boomberg on the State of the Union

Letter here. I suspect the other side is experiencing what we have experienced under past Administrations -- forgotten, because "what are you going to do, vote for the other side the next time around?" You'll get a small favor now and then, if it's not unpopular to give it, but when it comes to anything major, "I know thee not, old man."

Somewhere in my files I have a copy of an internal memo written in the early days of the Jimmy Carter administration, where a staffer writes to her superiors that someone is going to have to tell Handgun Control Inc. [since renamed the Brady Campaign] that it cannot expect the administration to endorse registration, permits, or anything significant, and that message is going to have to come from someone above her pay grade.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).