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Gun Control Vote Fails in Senate — Obama To Speak Soon On Failure
Business Insider ^ | April 17, 2013 ; 34 minutes ago | | Brett LoGiurato

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.).

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; democrats; fail; fubo; manchintoomey; obama; youwillnotdisarmus
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1 posted on 04/17/2013 2:06:45 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

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.


2 posted on 04/17/2013 2:08:05 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Red Steel

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.


3 posted on 04/17/2013 2:09:24 PM PDT by shadeaud (We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
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4 posted on 04/17/2013 2:09:25 PM PDT by freedomlover
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Obama To Speak Soon On Failure

What a refreshing departure to have the president finally talking about a subject that he knows something about.

5 posted on 04/17/2013 2:09:35 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Red Steel

Give it up Obama!
Here is your scapegoat. (Post #1)


6 posted on 04/17/2013 2:09:36 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: Red Steel

Get ready for pouting, whining, sighing, and general twelve-year-old-ness.


7 posted on 04/17/2013 2:10:27 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Red Steel

Constant campaign mode. Get ready for a condescending lecture disguised as a press conference.


8 posted on 04/17/2013 2:10:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Red Steel
Just sign an EO, Hussein.

Put your money where Reggie Love is.

I dare you.

9 posted on 04/17/2013 2:10:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
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To: Red Steel

I’LL BET OBAMA IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE THE ARREST OF THE BOMBING SUSPECT(S)


10 posted on 04/17/2013 2:10:58 PM PDT by stockpirate (COME AND GET THEM.....)
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To: Red Steel

Sucks to be them I guess.


11 posted on 04/17/2013 2:10:58 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Red Steel

Oblameo has extensive experience speaking about and causing failure...


12 posted on 04/17/2013 2:11:07 PM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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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’.


13 posted on 04/17/2013 2:11:23 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Get in touch with your galtitude!)
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To: Red Steel

If a Hurricane can help 0bama win an election, a bombing can underscore the FUTILITY of gun control. Take THAT, 0bummer!


14 posted on 04/17/2013 2:11:46 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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Hey Joe !

             Schadenfreude .. mmm mmm mmm !

15 posted on 04/17/2013 2:13:06 PM PDT by tomkat
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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!


16 posted on 04/17/2013 2:14:39 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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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.

17 posted on 04/17/2013 2:15:51 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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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


18 posted on 04/17/2013 2:16:07 PM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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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?


19 posted on 04/17/2013 2:16:13 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Red Steel

Seems to me if Dems voted with Repubs, it was a bipartisan vote.


20 posted on 04/17/2013 2:16:50 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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