“When Democrats retook the Senate and House in 2006, liberals rejoiced. Little noticed at the time was this intriguing fact: Democrats won their new majorities thanks in part to an infusion of new Democratic voices from the West and rural America.

Now, those new voices are joining with Republicans to create some unanticipated consequences.

Exhibit A is today’s House vote on credit reform legislation, a bill that would force credit card companies to notify customers when they plan to raise their rates.

…But Senate Republicans, working with new Democratic colleagues from more-rural states, inserted language in the bill giving gun owners the right to carry concealed weapons into the national parks.”

via the L.A. Times

The only way this would make sense would be if the credit card companies had their headquarters inside the national parks.