Breaking News: Senate defeats compromise on background checks.

The vote was 54-46, six short of the stupid 60 that Senate rules require.

The GOP just doesnt get it. The Republicans have built themselves a toxic coalition that is increasingly out of step with mainstream America.

Their pro-gun, anti-minority, anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-gay, 1950s-style pro-God message is a loser, and they don't seem to care. One party doesn't usually control the presidency for 12 years, but I really think the Dems are likely to win again in 2016 unless the economy goes down the shit hole.
By BearinFW | 04/17/2013 04:56 PM | 3 comments
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  • Sitting here today and reading letters to the NYT's. Looks like you're not the only one bearinfw who thinks the Republicans are rendering the party obsolete:

    " My heart is broken. The Senate killed even the most modest gun legislation, something that is desired by the majority of the American people (front page, April 18).

    Additionally, the National Rifle Association gave up all semblance of moral authority.

    Only the Republican senators Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, John McCain of Arizona, Mark Steven Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine acquitted themselves well by voting yes to expand background checks.

    There is no doubt in my mind that Republicans, under political pressure from Wayne LaPierre of the N.R.A., will be marginalized to the point of irrelevancy, as the American people move inexorably to force the adoption of reasonable gun legislation.

    I just wish that our Republican leadership had done the right thing. We just handed President Obama the perfect way to defeat many Republicans in the next election.

    ALFRED HOFFMAN Jr.
    North Palm Beach, Fla., April 19, 2013

    The writer is a Republican fund-raiser and a former Republican National Committee"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/opinion/gun-con … ref=global
    furball 04/20/2013 08:42 PM
  • Election day will come soon enough. I've always been a staunch Democrat, but I will work and donate to defeat those sorry ass Dems who voted against this in their primaries. Of course, the Republican troglodites will also need to be defeated. Folks will NOT forget this vote. The NRA and the corporations with all their money must be taken out of politics. Overturning Citizens United (should be called the Anti-Democracy Corporate Takeover) is also on my list to do.
    rjzip 04/18/2013 05:16 PM
  • It's just stunning. Dan Baltz in the WP today wrote that even if it had been supported by 100% of the population (it had over 90% public approval) it still would not have passed. Today the paper said it was a huge defeat for the president, I'm sure the parents of Newtown that came down to lobby for passage of the bill feel differently--they have to be devastated. What a bummer.

    On your last sentence in your post Bearfw, the republicans are working real hard to make sure that happens. All I can say is what a miserable lot.
    furball 04/18/2013 03:40 PM