{"id":77627,"date":"2022-02-17T23:39:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77627"},"modified":"2022-02-17T23:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T05:39:41","slug":"77627","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77627","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2022\/02\/17\/look-another-issue-dems-want-to-sweep-under-the-rug-until-after-the-midterms-n1559967\">Look! Another Issue Dems Want to Sweep Under the Rug Until After the Midterms.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats always feel like they can\u2019t show their true colors until after an election.<\/p>\n<p>With their party expected to take a huge beating at the ballot box in November, Democrats fighting tough battles to save their careers are distancing themselves from the unpopular Joe Biden as well as key issues in their party platform. House Democrats are actually being advised to deny supporting amnesty and open borders, critical race theory, or defunding the police\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2022\/02\/16\/democrats-are-always-denying-their-platform-until-after-elections-n1559843\">in order to salvage their campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, there\u2019s still another issue Democrats won\u2019t touch with a ten-foot pole, either \u2026 at least, not until after the midterms. You know, when it\u2019s safer.<\/p>\n<p>That issue is gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Joe Biden calling for more gun control legislation, members of his party have \u201clittle appetite\u201d for pursuing it before November,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/594223-democrats-show-little-appetite-for-bidens-call-for-gun-control\">reports\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>. Two gun control measures passed the House in March of 2021, but have gathered dust in the Senate since.<\/p>\n<p>And with good reason: it\u2019s a political loser for them. Most adults\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/gun_control\/gun_violence_most_americans_want_stricter_enforcement_not_new_laws\">want existing laws to be enforced, not new laws to be passed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke, who once boasted, \u201cHell yes, we\u2019re going to take your AR-15,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2022\/02\/08\/beto-orourke-makes-stop-tyler-part-keeping-lights-tour\/\">now says<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019s \u201cnot interested in taking anything from anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Democrats really think we don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look! Another Issue Dems Want to Sweep Under the Rug Until After the Midterms. It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats always feel like they can\u2019t show their true colors until after an election. With their party expected to take a huge beating at the ballot box in November, Democrats fighting tough battles to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77628,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77627\/revisions\/77628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}