Former Speaker of the House Tom Foley dies at 84

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37. Bill Clinton

was facing many problems, and gun control was constrained to specific areas, including Washington State which Tom Foley represented. The main reason that Congress changed hands was a successful neoconservative "Contract With America" propaganda campaign against his health care proposals, and his other DLC attempts at "centrist" triangulation positions.

"The Democratic Party had run the House for all but four of the preceding 62 years. With help from the Harry and Louise television ads, the Republican party was able to unite the majority of Americans against President Clinton's proposed healthcare reform. Capitalizing on the negative perception Clinton received because of this push, the Republicans alleged Clinton had abandoned the New Democrat platform he campaigned on during the 1992 Presidential election and united behind Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, which promoted immediate action on institutional reform and the decentralization of federal authority."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1994

The damage that Newt Gingrich and his band of criminals did to this country remains, and as much as Gungeoneers would like to believe otherwise, it had very little to do with the Democratic Party's stand on gun control. To say that we Democrats do not "support the Second Amendment" is just perpetuating the neoconservative NRA lie. Quoting portions of Bill Clinton's book out of context does absolutely nothing to address the facts at hand.

NRA supported lies about over-reaching gun control by Democrats may sway elections in some areas, especially where it is reinforced by so-called Liberals who parrot the NRA propaganda. In the end, Americans care much more about money and the economy than they do about some nebulous political threat of losing their Second Amendment rights.

P.S. Only NRA apologists could turn a tribute to a great Democrat into a Second Amendment argument.