THIS is one of those priceless moments where elite Democrats and progressives have united and it’s against Heidi Heitcamp for her vote against universal background checks. It’s a stupid vote for which she deserves to be held accountable, as do the other senators who blocked the legislation. Bill Daley’s Washington Post piece got the attention [...]
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Obama on Senate Manchin-Toomey Bill Fail: “Shameful Day for Washington” [Video - Full Remarks]
WHEN Mark Barden stood in the White House Rose Garden after the Senate’s miserable failure to pass universal background checks, he was joined by President Obama, who had a very grim face. It was a humiliating day for the Obama administration, with the NRA, extremists and cowards allowed to hold America hostage, while senators of [...]
Joe Manchin: “We Will Not Get the Votes Today” [Video]
Perhaps helping explain Democrats’ problems, an AP-GfK poll this month showed that 49 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws. That was down from 58 percent who said so in January — a month after the December killings of 20 children and six aides at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school propelled gun violence into a [...]
NRA Poised to Defeat Manchin-Toomey and American Majority?
The National Rifle Association hasn’t budged, and it warned supporters of the compromise Senate bill — authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) — that the group would remember their vote when they are next up for reelection. – Gun control bill in peril THE AMERICAN majority want background checks on [...]
Manchin-Toomey Gun Safety Bill Still Needs More Senate Support to Pass [Clinton Video]
To pass Manchin-Toomey, at least five Republicans must back it. Fifty-five senators caucus with the Democrats, but not all are sure bets to embrace the background check legislation. Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) last week voted against the motion to proceed to the gun control debate. Both are up for reelection next [...]
Obama Keeps Pushing for Gun Safety
GO TO the White House website and you’ll see the continued push for gun safety, here and here. The hastag on Twitter is #NowIsTheTime. Senators Manchin and Toomey got the job done in the Senate, with their legislation online. Speaker Boehner initially threatened this week to only “review” the gun measure, because of the Hastert [...]
How Blue Dog Democrat Joe Manchin Turned Into a Hero on Gun Safety
Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey will unveil a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for commercial gun sales at a press conference Wednesday morning. [...] The deal would close the so-called gun show loophole, requiring that background checks are conducted on all commercial gun sales in the country, according to a fact sheet of [...]
Top Story — Insane Nation: Background Checks, the NRA, and Beyond
“Guns were her hobby,” said Dan Holmes, the landscaper of Nancy Lanza’s sprawling yard here on the edge of town. “She told me she liked the single-mindedness of shooting.” [Washington Post - Newtown school shooter’s mother collected guns, was loath to let people inside home] WHEN I gave an interview back in 2008 to The [...]
Elizabeth Warren Reported to be Named to Senate Banking Committee
In November Elizabeth Warren defeated Republican Sen. Scott Brown, Massachusetts. Senator-Elect Warren will be, writes Ryan Grim at HuffPo, … tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It’s a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of [...]
Will Sen. Joe Manchin Join the Jailbird?
My message is simple: WTFU. Translated — wake the you-know-what up, there is an earthquake. … I ask: What are you smoking? What are you drinking? What are you snorting or just what in the hell are you thinking? Look around the world — do you see any governments or incumbents winning any elections out [...]
The Keystone Democrats
“API supports the Senate approval of Amendment 1537 to authorize the building of the Keystone XL pipeline,” said a press release that landed in reporters’ inboxes at 4:50 p.m., about 30 minutes after the vote. The headline cheered: “Bipartisan Senate majority approves building Keystone XL pipeline.” – Oil industry jumps gun on Keystone vote Oops. [...]
Crooks, Congress, Scalawags, and Spending
But after the vote, Casey and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) dismissed the Keystone project as “inside baseball,” arguing that middle-class families are more interested in getting a tax cut than an oil pipeline. [...] “I was responsible for putting it in this bill,” Reid said flatly. “That’s how legislation works. … Along with Manchin, Vermont [...]
Ray Tomblin Beats Back ‘Obamacare’ Ad Onslaught
The negative “Obamacare” ad ran all the way into Alexandria, Va., so I got to see them when I got back into town. Classic overkill, as you see here, it helped to make the race “a near draw,” but wasn’t enough in the end. Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin wins West Virginia special election Maloney fought [...]
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