Reid short of votes on gun control

politico ^ | 4/15/2013 | JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE SHERMAN

[tobyhill]

The White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are shy of the 60 votes they need to move the bipartisan compromise bill on background checks for gun sales.

Vice President Joe Biden has been personally calling senators to urge them to support the measure, Democratic aides say.

Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) began a whip count on Monday, Democratic aides said, and Biden has been pressuring his fellow Democrats to fall in line. Biden’s office did not return an email seeking comment.

Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are co-sponsoring the proposal that would expand background checks for commercial gun purchases — including those at gun shows and online — opening a pathway for the biggest change in U.S. gun laws in nearly two decades.

A cloture vote on the Manchin-Toomey could come by Thursday, Democrats said.

Toomey on Monday afternoon acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes.

“I’m cautiously optimistic. We’re not there at the moment but were working on it,” Toomey said.

[Zhang Fei]

Sammy “The Bull” Gravano on gun control:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/1999/09/The-Reluctant-Don

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Gun control? It’s the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I’m a bad guy, I’m always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You pull the trigger with a lock on, and I’ll pull the trigger. We’ll see who wins.

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[43north]

“Will Lautenberg be able to Torchelli his way back to DC to vote and save the day?”

More likely that loutenberg will be wheeled in and those closest to him will start choking and gagging from the stench of the Wheeling Dead... Perhaps he will rise up and bite lizzie warren on the face. Now THAT would be something!

[Zhang Fei]

More likely that loutenberg will be wheeled in and those closest to him will start choking and gagging from the stench of the Wheeling Dead... Perhaps he will rise up and bite lizzie warren on the face. Now THAT would be something!

Maybe they'll hire a ventriloquist. Getting the stiff's lips to move would be quite a feat, though.

[dontreadthis]

[43north]

He won’t have any lips - just teeth...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tobyhill.

[Zhang Fei]

He won’t have any lips - just teeth...

Maybe they'll dig up the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt and say it's Lautenberg.

[nomad]

Why, when these "saviors" keep playing the reach around game with the enemy.

BTW, isn`t that what they call it, reaching around the aisle?

[redgolum]

If the attacks were from a home grown group, you will see the bill pass with all the gun grabbers dreams.

If it was a Saudi, it will be back page news in a month, and won’t change anything on the voting one way or another.

[Jet Jaguar]

Coming from Politico, this is good news.

[kevao]

Yeah, they want to make it harder for me to obtain a gun legally, and have TSA agents groping wheel-chair-bound grandmothers and four-year-old girls. Meantime, an illegal immigrant (read: Saudi-national who overstayed his student visa) just blew hell out of Boston. They — and not the Second Amendment — are going to keep me safe how????

[Gator113]

That is what I have been hoping.

[oldenuff2no]

And after they get done it has to go to the house where it will fail instantly.

[ScottinVA]

They need more time to get the sufficient amount of goat pics.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are shy of the 60 votes they need to move the bipartisan compromise bill on background checks for gun sales. Vice President Joe Biden has been personally calling senators to urge them to support the measure, Democratic aides say. Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) began a whip count on Monday, Democratic aides said, and Biden has been pressuring his fellow Democrats to fall in line”

In spite of some (false) optimism over last week's start debate vote this does not appear to be going well for Dems.

Did Obama blame the bombing on the sequester or gun check loopholes yet?

[Cheerio]

Is this before or after the blackmail and bribery?

Just like Obamacare required the Corn-husker Kickback, the Louisiana purchase, and a promise of a judgeship, Obozo will get his bill - you can take that to the bank.

THEN try to imagine what the legislative battleground will look like starting Jan 2015 is Piglosi is Speaker and Reid is still majority leader.......OH GOD HELP US.

[SaraJohnson]

Thanks be to God. I really don’t want the Feds getting more power over legal gun ownership. It will be a miserable witch hunt. Let them hunt down the ones who have guns illegaly.

[onyx]

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[Windflier]

Its so comforting to know that Reid and these other assholes are so concerned about our safety that they to disarm us.

You cannot protect innocent people by disarming innocent people.

[vette6387]

“Will Lautenberg be able to Torchelli his way back to DC to vote and save the day?”

If he tries, I am praying that he’s hit by a drunk illegal alien driver!