Posted on 04/08/2013 7:26:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he will join GOP Senators to filibuster a bill expanding gun control regulations if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) brings it up for a vote this week.
This puts McConnell shoulder-to-shoulder with Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and eight other Senators who have said they will block a push for gun control in the Senate.
Currently, Reid's gun control package focuses on instituting universal background checks and new laws against gun trafficking. Reid has made it clear he will allow also amendments establishing an "assault weapons" ban....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A funny and accurate post!
The “core principle” of any politician is that which he judges most likely to get him re-elected.
National Review Online recently reported on something you didn’t hear from the lame-stream media. When Rand Paul staged his now famous 13-hour filibuster the polls showed “a 50-point shift in public opinion toward his position.”
Senator Mike Lee commented: “Once it became clear what the principle was that was being stood for, the public naturally followed.”
When Paul staged his first filibuster... we didn’t see it coming. We had no warning and we had no time to mount a campaign of support.
But now that we know what may be coming, we have no excuse not to make our voices heard and help make it happen.
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