Obama got his vote - and lost!!!

LadyJazzer wrote: Once again it had a MAJORITY in the Senate, but the obstructionists...(including four Democrats, who will now find themselves on "the list" for replacement)...blocked it with a filibuster.

I hope the GOP--and the NRA--can't possibly think this is the end of it... There will be a reckoning with the 92% of the people that wanted something done. And the obstructionists will find their numbers steadily diminishing. And ultimately, there WILL be universal background checks; magazine limits; assault weapons limitations; and harsh penalties for straw-purchasers and traffickers.

It's not over... And it will happen over and over again until it passes...

Gee with any luck, we can match the record of 37 attempts at repealing ObamaCare.

IIRC once a vote goes down they can't vote on it again this session.

I didn't say anything about "this session", but you are certainly free to try to extrapolate what I DID say into whatever you wish so you can attack it.

The 37 attempts at repealing ObamaCare did not all occur in the same session either... Nor did I say they did.

There will be a reckoning with the 92% of the people that wanted something done. And the obstructionists will find their numbers steadily diminishing. And ultimately, there WILL be universal background checks; magazine limits; assault weapons limitations; and harsh penalties for straw-purchasers and traffickers.

It's not over... And it will happen over and over again until it passes... NO MATTER HOW MANY SESSIONS IT TAKES.

92% favor it and it did not get passed. Remarkable.

Blazer Bob wrote: 92% favor it and it did not get passed. Remarkable.

Maybe the polling numbers were inaccurate?

Maybe the 90% of the GOP that voted against it are not listening to their constituents, but rather the NRA...

Oh, and: "It should be noted Harry Reid’s “no” vote was procedural so he can bring the bill back for another vote."

FredHayek wrote:

Blazer Bob wrote: 92% favor it and it did not get passed. Remarkable.

Maybe the polling numbers were inaccurate?

More likely the poll question was masterfully worded to obtain the desired outcome. But legitimate or not, why is the will of the people so much more important now than it was during the health care debate?

maybe some senators just don't care what voters want and are more concerned with what the NRA and their financial backers want? No, surely that can't be true.

If Americans really wanted gun control they would be sending money to the Brady Campaign and not the NRA.

We aren't talking about gun control, this is about universal background checks.....people vehemently against gun control still support background checks. Even the NRA used to be in favor of expanding them, until Obama became president.

archer wrote: We aren't talking about gun control, this is about universal background checks.....people vehemently against gun control still support background checks. Even the NRA used to be in favor of expanding them, until Obama became president.

Really... what did Obama do about universal background checks, AWB, other gun regulation measures... since 2008?

Where was this supposedly righteous anger after Aurora? The victims in that case weren’t small children, but that can’t possibly explain O’s dramatically more subdued reaction after that shooting. They were innocent people too; many of them were young, if not kindergarteners. No angry Rose Garden press conferences freaking out about Senate inaction after Aurora, though. Any theories why? Anything, maybe, having to do with when that shooting happened vis-a-vis Newtown? Right: One of them came three months before a presidential election and the other came a month after. That’s the difference. As you watch him point the finger here at supposedly gutless senators who care more about retaining public office than Doing Something, remember that there’s hardly one among them who’s as attuned to political self-preservation as O. He kept his mouth shut nice and tight about guns when it was his own ass on the line last year in purple states; he ignored gun control almost completely when he had 60 Democratic votes in the Senate early in his first term; and as we know from the gay-marriage farce, he isn’t above lying outright to voters about his true positions in the name of getting elected. [/b][/i]

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/17/v ... very-well/

Not a damn thing... maybe Obama just doesn't care what voters want and are more concerned with what he want's... political expediency. :rofllol :rofllol