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Title: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: wasp69 on April 17, 2013, 03:58:42 PM: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal

By Meredith Shiner
Roll Call Staff
April 17, 2013

The Senate on Wednesday failed to advance a bipartisan background check proposal that Democrats had hoped would be the core of any bill.

The background check legislation, championed by Democrat Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Republican Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, received only 54 votes, six short of the 60 needed to clear a threatened filibuster. In the 24 hours leading up to the vote, President Barack Obama and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., along with her husband, Mark Kelly, had personally lobbied on-the-fence senators or those who had declared themselves as â€œnoâ€ votes. But those efforts failed.

Hours before the vote, most of the backers of the Manchin-Toomey bill were openly resigned to the fact that it would fail. The only person who seemed to hold out some hope that senators would have eleventh-hour conversions was White House Press Secretary Jay Carney...

Though the background check provision garnered the most attention, other gun violence measures, such as the assault weapons ban or limit on high-capacity magazines, are also expected to see defeat Wednesday.

http://cdn.rollcall.com/news/senate_torpedoes_background_check_deal-224103-1.html?popular=true&zkPrintable=true&cdn_load=true&zkPrintable=1&nopagination=1

The DUmmies are praying the bomber is a conservative white guy, otherwise this day has hit the shitter.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: ginnyz on April 17, 2013, 04:00:30 PM: Hey, score one for the good guys!
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Texacon on April 17, 2013, 04:06:09 PM: Quote from: ginnyz on April 17, 2013, 04:00:30 PM
Hey, score one for the good guys!

Absolutely.

KC
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Airwolf on April 17, 2013, 04:38:40 PM: Yes . Some real common sense has shown through.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Dori on April 17, 2013, 05:01:47 PM: This morning (or maybe it was last night) Reid was announcing the time for the vote today and called it the anti-gun vote. :mad:
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Lacarnut on April 17, 2013, 05:02:54 PM: Quote from: ginnyz on April 17, 2013, 04:00:30 PM
Hey, score one for the good guys!

Yep but 4 scum bag Repubs voted for it.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: catsmtrods on April 17, 2013, 05:41:01 PM: Quote from: Lacarnut on April 17, 2013, 05:02:54 PM
Yep but 4 scum bag Repubs voted for it.

John McLame!!! I bet he did the same thing to his fellow prisoners in Nam! Sell out!
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: ginnyz on April 17, 2013, 05:49:24 PM: Quote from: Lacarnut on April 17, 2013, 05:02:54 PM
Yep but 4 scum bag Repubs voted for it.

And 5 dems voted against it. Even better!
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: thundley4 on April 17, 2013, 06:19:37 PM: I love the fact that Slow Joe went to preside over the senate for this vote. I don't know if he thought he might cast the deciding vote or if he thought his presence would influence some people.

Also, Obama reacted like a petulant child being told he couldn't have his way.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Freeper on April 17, 2013, 06:23:30 PM: Quote from: ginnyz on April 17, 2013, 04:00:30 PM
Hey, score one for the good guys!

We managed to put it off is all. They will try again.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: DLR Pyro on April 17, 2013, 06:55:20 PM: Quote from: thundley4 on April 17, 2013, 06:19:37 PM
Also, Obama reacted like a petulant child being told he couldn't have his way.
and this is a surprise to you because...?

he's not looking very presidential or awesome in this pic...
(http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2013/04/17/obama-gun-control_live_s640x530.jpg)
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Firekrakka on April 17, 2013, 06:57:30 PM: (https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3575_437130719706787_901064834_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: J P Sousa on April 17, 2013, 07:59:47 PM: Quote
Only four Republican senators committed to voting for the amendment ahead of time. The last was Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who announced his support Wednesday afternoon. The other three were Toomey, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

I sent Toomey an email, I may have to vote third party again. :whatever:
.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Tucker on April 17, 2013, 08:02:52 PM: If you get the chance to watch the teleprompter and obama, watch it. Pay attention to biden. His scowl is worth the time.

It's up there with Freeper's Cat.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Freeper on April 17, 2013, 08:10:33 PM: I'm loving the DUmmy tears over this. It's about damn time we get some good news, considering how ****ed we are on everything else.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Tucker on April 17, 2013, 08:13:18 PM: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51576030/#51575367

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/tucker13/special/biden-a_zps6f2ff8fc.png)
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Firekrakka on April 17, 2013, 08:15:15 PM: Walter!!!!

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7397/obamabideniswalter.jpg)
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Freeper on April 17, 2013, 08:15:39 PM: Quote from: Tucker on April 17, 2013, 08:13:18 PM
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51576030/#51575367

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/tucker13/special/biden-a_zps6f2ff8fc.png)

:rotf:

Grumpy cat is still much cooler, but that is fantastic!
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: dixierose on April 17, 2013, 09:13:57 PM: He showed more anger about his bill not getting passed than he did concerning Benghazi and Boston. You KNEW Bush was pissed after 9/11.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: Lacarnut on April 17, 2013, 09:51:41 PM: Quote from: Firekrakka on April 17, 2013, 08:15:15 PM
Walter!!!!

(http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7397/obamabideniswalter.jpg)

The dummy is on the right.
Title: Re: Senate Torpedoes Background Check Deal
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on April 18, 2013, 07:45:48 AM: Quote from: thundley4 on April 17, 2013, 06:19:37 PM
Also, Obama reacted like a petulant child being told he couldn't have his way.

His impotent anger feeds my soul.