Posted on 04/17/2013 2:06:45 PM PDT by Red Steel
With Vice President Joe Biden presiding over the Senate, an amendment to expand background checks on gun purchases failed to pass through the body, falling by a mostly partisan vote of 54-46.
President Barack Obama will speak at the White House at 5:30 p.m. on the failure, the White House said.
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In addition to Heitkamp, the other three Democrats voting against the measure were Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.).
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And when he whines about how those evil conservative Republicans are standing in the way of something the American people are demanding, remember the poll that showed that about 6% of Americans ranked this as an important issue.
Guess all that B.S. about how safer we will be if we don’t have these weapons turns out to be like your birth certificate.
What a refreshing departure to have the president finally talking about a subject that he knows something about.
Give it up Obama!
Here is your scapegoat. (Post #1)
Get ready for pouting, whining, sighing, and general twelve-year-old-ness.
Constant campaign mode. Get ready for a condescending lecture disguised as a press conference.
Put your money where Reggie Love is.
I dare you.
I’LL BET OBAMA IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE THE ARREST OF THE BOMBING SUSPECT(S)
Sucks to be them I guess.
Oblameo has extensive experience speaking about and causing failure...
Amazing how when it’s a few republicans voting with dems it’s a ‘bipartisan’ vote and when it’s a few dems voting with republican’s it’s a ‘mostly party line vote’.
If a Hurricane can help 0bama win an election, a bombing can underscore the FUTILITY of gun control. Take THAT, 0bummer!
Schadenfreude .. mmm mmm mmm !
Damn Markie showed some balls lol!
OF course being in AR I’m sure he knows the street would have been his new home! lol
I love it!
President Barack Obama will speak at the White House at 5:30 p.m. on the failure, the White House said.
Go ahead and whine about it, you filthy communist! Patriots from coast to coast are laughing at you.
Wow...just think how many liberal wet dreams were crushed today...
Now that legislative means to grab our guns have failed....expect massive EO to be forthcoming
This was just an amendment to S.649 that went down in flames. When is the main body of the bill coming up for a vote?
Seems to me if Dems voted with Repubs, it was a bipartisan vote.
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