What democrats will do

Put new rules in place to break the link between lobbyists and legislation.
Enact all the recommendations made by the 9/11 commission.
Raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
Cut the interest rate on federally supported student loans in half.
Allow the government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds.
Impose pay-as-you-go budget rules, requiring that new entitlement spending or tax cuts be offset with entitlement spending cuts or tax hikes.

Well, what do you think. There's not a lot about the gubbymint going after the guns, but maybe they will get up to some dumbshittery in the future. Anyway, I have nothing against this agenda, do you?

"I'm not sacrificing anything."
You do if you vote for pro-gun, anti-abortion candidates. But I liked that counterpunch article and was intrigued by the prospect as well so you seem reasonable.

"Not all republicans are like that.  In fact, I'd be pretty surprised if even a majority of elected repubs are."
Well, we'll see. I think it is shameful that they are on the ballots.

Regarding your good arguments for dove hunting - I just don't know the background on the proposed ban. I know of the slippery slope notion but maybe they have a reason to ban dove hunting (*except* for being pussies).

"The NRA is actually standing up to the evangelicals on this one, believe it or not."
Talking about abortion here, I didn't expect the NRA to secede an inch, they do not roll like that.

"There is enormous demand potential, and with that comes enormous profit potential.  The market'll do fine."
I think I believe you here.

"I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here."
Pharmaceutical companis prefer treating syndromes rather than curing diseases.

"Find some conservative or libertarian economists." Why don't you do that and look at their arguments? Preferably reality-based ones. Kash has given his.

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

A nobel prize-winning economist, and an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism.  Doesn't exactly sound like a supporter of the minimum wage, eh?"
I like that dude because he made people realize that to spend is to tax, meaning -among other things- that Bush's tax cuts will come to nothing in the long run. Still, some of the economists who signed support for a raised minimum wage were nobel laureates as well.

"I am definitely not going to be impressed by anti-gun liberals who start barking up the "SUPPORT THE PATRIOT ACT DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS IT IS A SERIOUS THREAT!" tree."
Neither do I.

"The democrats' position on guns is totally irrational.  It is based on nothing but raw emotion, and is actually caused by our own drug policy that they won't admit HAS FAILED (again, see above)."
These emotions are not compounded by the power of the belief in a supernatural being, therefore probably making them more capable of sense on this one. But I dunno, I live in a country where a majority believes in evolution.