clean up litter on floor
Posted on 06/23/2016 7:38:06 AM PDT by Innovative
THE BIG IDEA: Paul Ryan calls it “a publicly stunt.” That may be true. But it is proving to be a darn effective one.
Republicans, unsure about how to deal with a sit-in that started on the House floor yesterday at 11:30 a.m., tried to talk over Democrats and hold routine votes. Then, around 3:30 a.m., they adjourned the chamber until after July Fourth – two days earlier than planned. In so doing, they’ve guaranteed that the debate about gun control will roil the congressional recess and remain a dominant storyline for the next two weeks.
Democrats continue to occupy the House floor this morning. About two dozen stayed through the night.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Everybody but the blind, deaf, and willfully stupid understands that the Orlando shootings were committed by an Afghan muslim targeting a gay bar.
Everybody understands that this lunatic's death cult, errr... "religion", condemns gay people to death. This was a premeditated act of terror. It was different than if he'd just walked into some place at random. He knew who he wanted to kill, gay Americans, so anybody who pretends to not understand his motivation is just laying down a smoke screen.
And democrats in Congress pretend that none of that had anything to do with that. The fact that he used an AR-15 compelled him to do it. Seriously, can there really be that many corrupt congress critters stupid enough to try to sell that to the voting public?
If the democrats try to use this as a campaign issue, it will torpedo them below the water line, just like it always does.
Echo Chamber fully operational at the moment I see.
This tactic is used by groups who don’t have political power to bring change. The literally last group of people who should need to use this tactic are members of Congress who, by definition, have power. If they were paying attention, the people who elected these idiots would be asking “Why aren’t they using their political skills to bring people to their side of the argument?”
The Constitution specifically calls out how they can bring about the change they want. If they would rather act like children screaming, crying and throwing tantrums to get their way then they should be treated as children.
This will all backfire on them.
Oh yeah . . . saw the title and looked for the source . . . Washington Post. Pffffft.
If Ryan was smart he’d put Dems on the spot with votes on increased penalties for gun crimes. But he won’t do that because he’s a surrender monkey who generally supports the progressive agenda.
Only among the idiots in our country.
When hasn’t Congress been a circus? Not enough times, and this is an ongoing problem!
House sit-in guarantees gun control will be a top issue in fall election
They wish.
But it will not be the case.
The issues that Americans will vote on in November are the economy, immigration, healthcare costs and national security.
It will be a key issue on which the Democrats will get obliterated on.
I read on another site that they are having Chick-Fil-A at their sit-in. I thought the democrats hated them?
Gun control, immigration and Islamophobia. A trifecta loser for the rats.
Gun control is a losing issue for democrats... let’s hope they run on it.
Gun control is a losing issue for democrats... let’s hope they run on it. James Hohmann’s part of the groupthink... hey James - it’s not 1980... people have wised up to ‘gun control’.
Go and line up a hundred working-class Democrats who live in urban areas. Ask them....who owns a weapon. It’ll be an overwhelming number. The blunt truth is that Democrats can’t even bring this to the top of their own voting group because a majority won’t buy into the argument.
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