My complaint with your post is that you chose to turn this over regulation into a “liberal” activity. It isn’t…We do not need to be divided. And our conversation should not resort to labeling anything as liberal or conservative.

Frankly, I’m at a loss for words. It just goes to show that people will selectively read and interpret what they will no matter how carefully one crafts their words. Minimally, it is humorous as I’ve been the one person in this entire debate that has railed against right-left divisiveness. I’ll quote a comment my husband wrote above (reading comments is helpful!) and leave it at that. He wrote:

I think the Congresswoman missed her target by a country mile… I think this letter may have been the first round of attempts to marginalize Kathleen as a reactionary; shortly after receiving this, I picked up a search on my blog for “Kathleen Fasanella campaign contributions” from someone in Washington D.C. Yep, my wife, the Subaru wagon drivin’, Co-op America joinin’, vegetarian, Democratic headquarter election night partyin’, NPR listenin’, immigrant defendin’, solar music festival attendin’, sustainability advocatin’ (and again) neocon.

I agree with the fact that legislation that allegedly is for the good of the country hurts its citizens and serves no purpose. In my own state, our zealous tax department decided to clamp down on hobby vendors at craft shows to make sure they had business licenses. To make it worse, if you do not report any sales tax collection for 6 months, they rescind your license, and you have to pay for a new one.

This has eliminated all of the wonderful crafters that occasionally do one or two craft shows during the holidays. The retired woodworkers that make a few toy cars, and the grandmothers that sell the hand knitted potholders, stuffed animals and doll clothes.

My complaint with your post is that you chose to turn this over regulation into a “liberal” activity. It isn’t. People all along the political spectrum are capable of stupidity and ignorance. I am liberal and I am fighting against the legislation that makes it a crime for Americans to craft and sell their wares. In my state, it was conservative politicians that created tax laws that drove small crafters out of business.

We do not need to be divided. And our conversation should not resort to labeling anything as liberal or conservative. It does no good to foster divisiveness by using such labels for something we disagree with.

We think that preventing the window from closing or allowing reversing is more dangerous to those who are attempting to escape from abusers, robberies, and carjackers than the number of children who would be harmed by an automatic closure. Children should be strapped into their carseat, thus preventing them from reaching the TOP of the window, which is the only spot where they might get hurt. …..

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This bill was passed anyway in Jan. 2008 and went to the D.O.T. for ’study’. I contacted the Dept. Of Trans. and asked them to include statistics re abusers, robberies, and carjackers in their study. Of course, it is all just a waste of taxpayer money – Congress’ main skill, yes?

It’s breaking my heart that representatives I otherwise admire and respect are so misinformed about the law and guided by a belief that this is bad business versus good mommies. This is why we also need more democratic politicians advocating cpsia changes