Posted on 03/01/2019 7:40:42 PM PST by Libloather
Earlier this week the Democrats now running the House of Representatives strutted their stuff with passage of a bill aiming at the ancient liberal target of the gun background check loophole for private sales. It was passed by a 240-190 margin on what was basically a party-line vote. But before that vote, Republicans offered an unexpected motion to recommit the bill to add language instructing law enforcement officials to notify ICE if an illegal immigrant attempted to buy a gun. Twenty-six Democrats voted with Republicans in favor of that motion, and embarrassed House leaders added the language as an amendment to keep the bill from dying then and there.
Subsequently House Democrats met to discuss the incident (the second successful MTR maneuver by Republicans in the brief period since Nancy Pelosi took the gavel), amid some talk of amending the House rules either to eliminate MTRs or provide members with more time to consider them. But according to the Washington Post, recriminations broke out between members angry at the defections on the ICE vote, and defectors angry that Democrats from safer districts werent sufficiently sensitive to their political needs.
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There are no “moderate” Democrats.
Do NOT let them own the language.
The only Democrats are “progressives” and “radical left wing.”
Maybe, because the D party runs on money, but look who is controlling google etc, now. So maybe something new is happening.
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