re: #75 freetoken
NRA moves to new arena in fight over surgeon general
Just what we need - the Overton Window working on gun fetishists.
The NRA has had to smack down a large number of conspiracy theories in the last couple years and over time that makes enemies because of people who think “Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” and who cannot accept that the ‘smoke’ is just brain farts from lunatics.
That said, all the NRA has is Murthy’s word he won’t try to push an anti-gun agenda and its easy to argue they should not take it.
Lastly, getting the Senate to block Murthy helps showcase the NRA’s power, drives a wedge between Obama and a number of Democratic senators, and hands Obama a visible defeat in the blocking of his second appointee without a filibuster.