GOP Agrees to Vote on Gun Control After 15-Hour Filibuster

time.com ^ | June 16, 2016 | Justin Worland

[Carthego delenda est]

I’d say the republicans are knee-jerk fools, but at this point it’s hard to believe they’re doing anything other than deliberately marching to the democrat leadership’s orders. Traitors!

[JBW1949]

A 15 hour filibuster???????

Lazy basturds had to get back to the cocktails and mistresses...

[apillar]

A watered down terrorist watch list ban may pass (in the Senate at least), but getting off the phone with my Senator's office, the general view of the staffer I talked to is that there is no way 15 Republicans are going to flip and get the 60 votes for the universal background check bill to go anywhere (and Paul Ryan has already said he has no intention of bringing it up in the House, though I trust him about as far as I could throw him).

Anyway, it's time to start burning up the phone lines....

[IamConservative]

a provision requiring background checks at shows and over the internet.

Bloviating and negotiating for hours fighting over a law that already exists?

[Paladin2]

THIS is a GOPee issue. Yet again

[NativeSon]

Instead of “no fly”, “no buy”, I demand: “no fly”, “good bye” - kick them the frigg out.

[JBW1949]

You left off rebellion.....

[smokingfrog]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4604272/senate-leaders-speak-gun-control-amendments

[IamConservative]

I read somewhere this morning that 72 DHS employees were on the no-fly-list.

[Boogieman]

Because half (or more) of the Republicans want the same things the Democrats want and they just need a little cover, like a filibuster, so they can pretend they were coerced into supporting them.

None of the Democrats want the things we want, so that tactic won’t work in reverse.

[fruser1]

Caving in after only 15 hrs.

Must’ve been getting in the way of some other bill in queue that’ll wind up lining someone’s pockets.

[hal ogen]

Tell me again why we elected these repub limp-wrists. What absolute quislings.

[Boogieman]

“A watered down terrorist watch list ban may pass ...”

If it does, the courts hopefully will (eventually) strike it down, since that would violate the 2nd and 14th amendments.

[Harpotoo]

15 hours is all it takes for the RINOs to fold!

Go Trump Go!

[Pearls Before Swine]

So they vote, and go on record against it. Is there a big surprise?

[SkyDancer]

The thing is: Guns are already out there. The people that don’t have them will get them in the next couple of weeks I bet. Are all those guns going to disappear overnight because the fed’s banned them? I’ll turn mine over when all the guns in Chicago are gone.

[PROCON]

So they vote, and go on record against it. Is there a big surprise?

The way the GOPe has caved over the years, I'm not convinced they won't cross the aisle to vote with the 'rats.

We'll see soon.

[Windflier]

“We WILL have a list of how the Senators vote on this farce...”

And?

They’re conspiring to infringe upon your constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, and you’re threatening to vote them out?

I think I just heard a bowl of laughter in the Senate.

[Vendome]

The Dems have no hope of ever seeing a bill pass without complicity from the GOP.

[GregoTX]

Any talk of moslem terrorist control?