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Stung by defeats, Democrats shift strategy on gun control
StarTribune.com ^
| 6/27/16
| By Maya Rao Star Tribune
Posted on 06/27/2016 7:57:10 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Congressional Democrats increasingly frustrated by a string of defeats on gun issues in Washington are scrambling to harness a public outpouring after last week’s sit-in protest on the House floor.
Party leaders are urging members to conduct similar sit-ins around the country as they try to sustain the flash of hard-core activism on the gun issue.
“We don’t have the numbers to get things done, so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; gungrabbers
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The Face Of The Liberals
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Yes Dems, please continue the stupid actions that have brought about your stinging defeats!
Go for it.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
They looked like little children who didn’t get their way...LOL
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posted on
06/27/2016 7:59:38 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Democrats, when playing by the rules doesn’t further
the agenda...
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:00:16 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Scumbag troublemakers. And they look the part.
Stupid is, as stupid does. And thank you GOPe.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:00:36 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: JBW1949
Picking fleas off each others napes.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:01:35 PM PDT
by
ArtDodger
To: JBW1949
The “Pouter In Chief” dead center in that photo.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
“We don’t have the numbers to get things done, so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, Deceiver-Minn.
fitna/jihad…fitna/jihad…fitna/jihad…
Marxists and Mohammedans - Twin Towers of Totalitarianism
We got your number, Keith.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:03:38 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I hope that they keep at it. Gun owners, those of us who believe in a free people will against them in November.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:03:58 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
in a democratic system of government, if you “don’t have the numbers to get things done”, you lose. that’s the whole idea.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:04:10 PM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: austinaero
We need to make sure their numbers are fewer, one way or the other.
L
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:04:28 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: ArtDodger
Too much crack clouds the mind
To: austinaero
“We don’t have the numbers to get things done, so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:05:24 PM PDT
by
slumber1
(Islam delenda est)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
“We don’t have the numbers to get things done, so we have to turn to more dramatic displays to galvanize the public so they can help us pressure the Republicans to do what’s right,” said U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Sounds like they're planning to trigger more of those oh-so-convenient schoolyard massacres.
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:06:31 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The official language of the United States should be Arabic. It's clear that our government is.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Who is the dude with RBF?
To: PGalt
To: austinaero
What assholes! Can I write Assholes here?
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:07:45 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: butlerweave
How can they not realize how stupid and ridiculous they looked sitting in the floor like that???
How utterly juvenile....
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posted on
06/27/2016 8:08:42 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
...all together now...
We Shall Overcome...the Second Amendment.
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