Credit Card Concealed Gun Protection

Today the Congress passed a Credit Card Bill of Rights and that should be a good thing. Of course the credit card companies are all saying that they will find other fees and charges to hit us with and I believe they will. They will hit us with interest from the date of purchase and annual fees to have the card. They will limit the amount of credit and make it harder to get. We will pay but Congress will do nothing more because they passed a Credit Card Reform Bill.

The thing that has really gotten me mad is the rider that was attached to the bill. The rider will allow the carrying of concealed weapons in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges. This was attached at the instigation of the National Rifle Association. These gutless wonders did this because they knew that if they could get it attached to this bill it would be hard for Congress to vote against it. Why a bunch of penis-less men need to carry concealed guns in National Parks is beyond me, maybe Al Qadea has a grizzly bear sleeper cell.

This form of legislative slight of hand has been used for a long time and there is hardly a bill that doesn't have at least one rider attached. Most of these riders are for things that are pork barrel spending at best and they are always attached to bills for something that would be very difficult to say no too. They are sometimes the price that is paid to get the votes needed to pass a bill but mostly they are added to feather the nest of individual legislators. What is needed is a rules change that stops this practice or the President needs a line item veto. I'm not saying that these riders should all be done away with. If they are good ideas they should be able to stand by themselves and get the votes to pass.

At least for now the National Parks and Wildlife Refuges will be safer because of the work of a few legislators and the NRA. A few rednecks with guns and we are all safer. Only in America can the 2nd Amendment replace the Declaration of Independence's... "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness..."