Posted on 04/18/2013 4:35:18 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
President Obama's gun control agenda was routed in the Senate on Wednesday, and Mr. Obama naturally blamed the National Rifle Association. The truth is that Mr. Obama invited this meltdown by assuming he could exploit the Newtown massacre to ram through a liberal wish-list that wouldn't have stopped the next mass murder.
The day's biggest news was the defeat of the amendment expanding background checks by Senators Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.). It fell six votes short of the 60 needed to pass, as four Democrats defected: Max Baucus (Mont.), Mark Begich (Alaska), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.).
And that was the liberals' best hope. The President's proposed bans on certain rifles and large ammunition clips didn't even make 50 votes. ......
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The rout also vindicates Republicans who wanted the Senate to vote on the gun bill as opposed to the Rand Paul-Ted Cruz faction who sought a filibuster. For once Democrats had to declare themselves in public and couldn't hide behind shouts of "Republican obstructionism."
So much for the first big liberal hope of Mr. Obama's second term. Maybe he should consider a centrist strategy from now on.
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Send e-mails, letters, phone calls to your senators expressing your opinion of their votes. Keep agitating.
I have turned in all such dangerous items to the government as directed.
I will be awaiting your further instructions Dear Leader.
Screw the “splainen” with all due respect, kick the ahole out on his butt! Seeing is believing!!!
After the elections and IF, they can capture the US House and add more socialist in the US Senate, then Hairy ass Reid will reintroduce the gun control bill(s). The socialist are not done by no stretch of the imagination, there is still more bribery, extortion, and graft to be had in order to secure more votes in favor of gun control legislation, bet on it!
Stand ready and vigilant my fellow Americans! We have taken the high ground, but, we must be ever ready for a counterattack!
It is not over.
They can pull this out for a vote again.
But it is a victory.
Please, please, please, lefties try to push more gun control right before the 2014 election.
Obama is the most powerful man in the world.
This is going to get ugly.
Update: "Who's Nietzsche?" God
THAT was just mean.
LOVE it. Thanks.
This shows why it was so CRITICALLY IMPORTANT for Romney to start needling Obama during the campaign in an effort to provoke a meltdown. Obama becoming emotionally unhinged is a scary and disturbing sight. It would have made a difference. But as usual the Pubbies lacked the stones.
Who knew that they could be reloaded??? I thought that these are foods, they're roasts- potatoes, so the people who have those now, they're going to cook them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity pressure cookers is going to decrease dramatically over time because the foods will have been cooked and there won't be any more available.
LOL, can’t stop laughing.... and you’re from Colorado (I assume)..... Priceless!
I agree. The SOB can get all fired up and emotional about taking away our rights, but we must calmly investigate and bring to justice the bomber(s). He is a narcissist
He voted last to defeat it so he can bring it up again.
That’s what I thought and the 1st debate gave me hope. But as you said they lacked the stones to follow thru.
When chickens come home to roost, you'll need at least a 10 gallon pot.
This is a big f****in deal boss.
These same clowns will be grinning and laughing and who knows what, right beside families of victims and Gabby.
Again, the reason why lots of us said these poor souls are being used as props.
There is no real middle ground on this particular issue, which is one thing that makes it such a third rail in American politics. What is presented as middle ground is in fact a partial surrender of basic rights instead of a complete one, which will surely follow.
It was fascinating to hear the talking heads parrot that "no one is in favor of firearms confiscation" when that precise thing was actually happening in New York. The question was never, "How stupid do they think we are" but "How stupid do they have to be to actually think that one will fly?"
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