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Sources Report Senate Republicans Caving on Guns
Red State ^ | 4/9/2013 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 04/10/2013 5:57:05 AM PDT by IbJensen

Sources inside the Senate tell me that the Republican Conference is scared to death of the tactics of Senators Lee, Cruz and Paul – that it is supposedly putting them in a tough spot.

Several of the Republicans are using the Manchin-Toomey compromise plan as an excuse to cave on the gun filibuster. They claim that Senators Lee, Cruz, and Paul are running ahead of the conference in their insistence on a filibuster.

What they fail to see is that the cloture vote is the vote to stop the gun legislation from passage.

Several Republican Senators intend to vote against the filibuster, but then vote against the overall bill. This is too clever by half. The GOP does not control the Senate as the GOP is want to say every time they don’t want to fight.

Their only power to block a gun control bill is to unite and filibuster.

Voting for cloture is voting for the gun control bill because, again, as the GOP reminds us, they are not in the majority. The only way to stop it is to filibuster.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 0pansy; 113th; airball0bama; awb; banglist; filibuster; goodbyegop; gop; gope; guncontrol; infringe; republicrats; rinos; secondamendment; shallnotinfringe; stupidparty; tyranny; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: IbJensen

quote “What they fail to see is that the cloture vote is the vote to stop the gun legislation from passage”

lol

they are not ‘failing to see” anything. They know darn well what the consequences of the cloture vote are.


21 posted on 04/10/2013 6:25:20 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: IbJensen
Sources Report Senate Republicans Caving on Guns

Opposition is interfering with their tee times and makes their cocktail parties too uncomfortable. /sarc

22 posted on 04/10/2013 6:26:03 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
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To: IbJensen

I despise Juan McCain.


23 posted on 04/10/2013 6:26:54 AM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: Farmer Dean
I think that they’re all bought and paid for.That or Obama has their FBI files detailing perverse behavior that would land them in prison if released.

I think it's just as likely that they're a bunch of liars. Are politicians in office to serve us or are they there to pursue their pet causes? My feeling is that the second eventually wins out.

24 posted on 04/10/2013 6:28:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Castigar

Because they are afraid of everything. Just like a team that is perpetually in last place, the GOPe has a losers mentality.


25 posted on 04/10/2013 6:29:29 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: IbJensen

Ayn Rand: “In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

Whenever republicans “compromise” with democrats the constitution takes another direct hit.

A compromise is nothing more than giving democrats a win but cloaking it in other terms to make it sound better.

Every compromise is a loss for patriots and conservatives and a win for anti-constitutional Nanny Staters.

Democrats are happy to advance their agenda by chipping away a little at a time. Like water eroding a rock - sooner or later they will gradually erode our culture and constitution until they are lost.


26 posted on 04/10/2013 6:30:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Welcome to Obama-Land - EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY)
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To: jsanders2001

He’s always been this way, trying to live up to his father and grandfather, both better men than he.


27 posted on 04/10/2013 6:30:39 AM PDT by RobbyS
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To: IbJensen
"What they fail to see is that the cloture vote is the vote to stop the gun legislation from passage. "

No, what YOU (the author) fail to see is that THERE SHOULD BE NO 'VOTING' ON WHETHER WE GET TO KEEP OUR RIGHTS

28 posted on 04/10/2013 6:31:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: IbJensen

There is a reason I voted against McCain and for a democrat the last time he ran. It was the first democrat I’ve voted for in many years, but since one was going to be the next senator regardless...


29 posted on 04/10/2013 6:32:42 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: IbJensen

They can all just piss off and go to hell. Voting has become nearly pointless.


30 posted on 04/10/2013 6:37:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: jsanders2001

McCain has a been a useless RINO for a long time.


31 posted on 04/10/2013 6:44:32 AM PDT by GP100
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To: Da Coyote

They want all the perks that come with being a senator but they don’t want any of the responsibility of being the leadership party....They want to bitch and complain and put on a dog and pony show, before going along with the Rats.


32 posted on 04/10/2013 6:47:02 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: IbJensen
Democrats want the moon, and the republicans will settle at a piece of cheese.
How many pieces of cheese before there's no moon left.

The Democrats are getting what they want! WTF does no mean NO to these damn people!!

33 posted on 04/10/2013 6:49:31 AM PDT by MaxMax
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To: MaxMax

If the Republicans won’t fight for us, why should we fight for them?


34 posted on 04/10/2013 6:50:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Da Coyote

they know they’ll still get voted in because we have millions upon million of voters who have not a frigging clue what they’re voting for, R or D, , sorry S for socialist.

The media will never inform the masses of what is really happening, hell our house is closed, the house we pay for and they have concerts and vacations and not hardly a peep from the stupid party or the media.

The GOP should have been calling a press conference and pointing this out and how out of touch the white house is but alas no, instead they do nothing and think the media might report this.

If you want to hit the Obama’s then take their vacations away, take the golf away, take the concerts and fancy dinners, and flying about on our dime for fund raising.

The free loading wife would go nuts and never want to give up her freebies


35 posted on 04/10/2013 6:51:35 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Farmer Dean

agree and then I also think the communists and socialist in power have been bugging many of the republicans and have dirt on them as well as the judges on the supreme court


36 posted on 04/10/2013 6:53:24 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
These treasonous and dishonorable actions make it patently clear to us lowlies that the eGOP is much more concerned with maintaining their cushy positions of power than any oath of office they may have once sworn.

To be treated accordingly.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

37 posted on 04/10/2013 6:54:57 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: IbJensen
What they fail to see is that the cloture vote is the vote to stop the gun legislation from passage.

The Republican bastards know exactly what they are doing and that's stabbing us in the back again.
Except for a few, we have no Senators representing us.

FU Republican Party, you're are dead.

38 posted on 04/10/2013 7:04:20 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Starboard

Well they don’t call it a Roll Call for nothing


39 posted on 04/10/2013 7:10:28 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: IbJensen

Actually it is not surprising. Must keep an intact record and make certain the public is bent over.


40 posted on 04/10/2013 7:13:50 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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