Reply #79: You're "outraged" that she signed a brief (not an NRA brief, a congressional one) [View All]

[benEzra]

affirming that the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights protects an individual right? The Democratic party platform says it protects an individual right. So does well over 70% of the U.S. electorate. That was a U.S. Supreme Court case, and the most significant 2ndA case ever. Good for her. And the fact that the NRA put a copy of the congressional amicus brief on their website doesn't mean they own it.

FWIW, the NRA originally fought the Heller plaintiffs to try to keep them out of court. Go figure.

Gillibrand is arguably somewhat more progressive than McCarthy, and considerably more progressive than Hillary. Gillibrand has a 100% rating from NARAL, a 90% rating from the ACLU, a 7% rating from the American Conservative Union (0% is perfect liberal, 100% is perfect conservative), 5%-10% rating from the conservative tax groups, etc. Tell me how she's so conservative, again? And the compromise FISA bill that people are ripping her for, McCarthy voted THE SAME WAY.

http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Kirsten_Gillibrand.htm
http://rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/01/23/rep-kirsten-gillibrand-chosen-us-senate
http://action.aclu.org/site/VoteCenter?congress=110&repId=28123&session_num=0&page=legScore

FWIW, McCarthy is a lifelong repub who used the (D) ticket as a flag of convenience, after the repubs rejected her as a liability. Did you know she didn't even bother to change her voter registration from (R) to (D) until she had served THREE TERMS in the Senate?

And Gillibrand, unlike McCarthy, actually gives a damn about the party and its broader agenda, as opposed to McCarthy's single-minded obsession with outlawing the most popular guns in America.

Yes, I understand where McCarthy is coming from emotionally, but she is a nationwide liability to the party who apparently doesn't even bother to read her own legislation.