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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. Thanks, Cha! For those on dail-up, a brief description from youtube:
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 06:05 PM
Apr 2013
Published on Apr 17, 2013

Senate Republicans, backed by rural-state Democrats, blocked legislation to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms. Attempts to ban assault-style rifles and high capacity magazines also faced certain defeat in a series of showdown votes four months after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. The background check measure commanded a majority but fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance.

President Obama spoke candidly about his frustration with the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey Amendment. Obama said that the gun lobby and its allies "willfully lied about the bill." Obama was introduced by Mark Barden, the father of Sandy Hook victim Daniel Barden.


This. Is. Not. Over.


loudsue

(14,087 posts)
3. Such outrage over losing a bill. What about the seniors who will die because of chained CPI?
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 06:41 PM
Apr 2013

He needs to get his outrage on about which group he doesn't want to lose to.

Sorry. I don't care what the issue. Obama has shown himself to be a phony and a tool, and he has lost his cred with me altogether.

Cha

(305,137 posts)
5. No he hasn't, loudsue.. that's what you think.
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 06:56 PM
Apr 2013

This is about gun legislation only.. too bad you can't get that through your head.

There's tons of threads for you to whine about how you feel. This isn't one of them.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
12. I tried holding my tongue here, but I'm calling BS.
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:22 PM
Apr 2013

Basically, what I got from what you're saying is that gun laws are less important to you than some manufactured outrage over just a proposed cut to SS. People always conveniently ignore the fact that this was not his ideal budget, and that for someone who is a "phony" and eager to cut the Big Three, he has had over 4 years to do so and still has yet to do it. People forget the type of domestic terrorists that he is dealing with in Congress, and act like he is some dictator or king who can do whatever the fuck he wants. You call the man a phony over this one issue, and yet purists like you are never anywhere to be seen when he does actually do something the Left supports like the Fair Pay Act and the Auto Bailout, and being the 1st president to endorse gay marriage. And while he was just proposing CPI, Republicans actually want to get rid of SS altogether, but nobody ever wants to talk about that.
So-called "progressives" like you never want to give Obama credit for anything. Ever.

Cha

(305,137 posts)
8. I know she..
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

The Parents of Sandy Hook Victims and Survivors of Gun Violence wanted this.. and the US Senate couldn't even get a weak law passed.

Of course, he's pissed.. what sane person wouldn't be?

The Associated Press ✔ @AP

Reaction in Newton, Conn., to the US Senate rejection of expanded gun sale background checks: http://apne.ws/11ixmJD -CC1:45 PM - 17 Apr 2013
Senate gun control vote angers Conn. officials

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials reacted Wednesday with shock, disappointment and anger to the U.S. Senate's rejection of gun control legislation inspired by the massacre at Sandy Hook...


BOG

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
9. Thanks for posting that... It is their passion that will teach others.
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 07:16 PM
Apr 2013


to Newtown and Boston and all the hurting people everywhere.



Cha

(305,137 posts)
11. "..we are going to get this right, the memories of these children demand it”
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 09:17 PM
Apr 2013

with the Newtown families before the Rose Garden statement (Photo: Pete Souza)

http://theobamadiary.com/


thanks freshwest.. to our friends who are hurting in Boston
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