What this country needs is a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and an AK in every backseat.

Or so says the GOP ... House Republicans are making sure the current ban on AK-47s and eighteen other types of semiautomatic weapons expires next year. And the president doesn't object.

Money quote from the Post ...

Congressional Republicans said Congress will renew the ban only if Bush publicly and firmly insists. "If the president demands we pass it, that would change the dynamics considerably," said a House GOP leadership aide. "The White House does not want us" to vote.

At a certain point you wonder whether the GOP will have to start executing family pets before the Dems find something they can mobilize on.