Posted on 04/17/2013 6:04:51 AM PDT by Zakeet
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told reporters on Wednesday that the compromise legislation he crafted with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) to expand background checks for gun purchasers does not have enough votes to pass the Senate when it comes up for a vote.
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Chuck Todd, NBCs Chief White House Correspondent, speculated that, because the Manchin/Toomey compromise could not pass the House, there is no incentive for legislators who may be vulnerable on the issue of guns in 2014 to pass stricter legislation.
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The PA Dems can always manage to find some goober like Bob Casey who will talk a good game about being pro-gun and pro-life, while embracing failed FDR economics.
The dirty little secret being that large numbers of PA voters actually LIKE failed liberal economics, and only vote for the Pubbie over guns and social issues.
Toss those out of the equation and they’ll bite on the Dem every time.
The list of GOP traitors is so long that nearly everyone is on it!
It doesn’t have 51 votes? That many Democrats oppose it?
We do not have recall in PA, unfortunately.
Based on his appearance on the Quinn and Rose show this week, and the drubbing he took there, I do suspect his career is now toast.
The U.S. Congress does not recognize recall on the grounds, believe it or not, that recall is NOT in the U.S. Constitution.
Or alternatively that no one can be trusted, we are all potential terrorists, cept the gubment, at least if Obama is POTUS anyway.
So we must be completely disarmed, even sharp knives and sugar soda too, for the common good.
I think this bombing kills the effort to use the weeping moms to get the public interested in this gun ban stuff.
I don’t think WV people as a whole would ever seriously considering reprimanding Manchin for much of anything.
Gerrymandering is named after him.
Through this process, Joe Manchin has proven himself to be a typical “Red” state Democrat. He got elected by running advertisements of himself shooting a bullet through Obamacare regulations and grandstanding about how he believed in Middle American values. Now that he is in Washington, he votes with the Dems and runs cover for them on things like gun control. And he’s done absolutely nothing to stop Obama’s War on Coal. Yet he’ll keep getting re-elected until he dies.
From your lips to God’s ears, Joe.
I don't know, I use to think the same thing. But in the thirty years I've lived in West Virginia, it's gone from deep blue to light red, and getting more red every election. The legislature may very well tip Republican for the first time since 1928 next election (the democrats only control it by four seats after 2012 (54D-46R). When I moved here in 1983 it was (87D-13R)!! It has gotten so the only way a democrat like Manchin can win is to masquerade as a conservative Republican. He ran as pro-gun, pro-life, anti-gay marriage.
Looks like the vote will be a real “pressure cooker “
From Sultan Knish:
Poor Arlen Toomey... This didn’t work out quite the way he planned.
No matter what the Liberal/Progressive Demorats or the Republican RINO’s must go in next election.
I have a slightly different take on it.
Lib states like CT and my state Maryland want to react to THEIR shootings by banning or making it difficult to buy and own guns in states like Texas.
Just like they claim that Obama-care can only work if forced on all 50 states, rather than just those that want it.
WV is one of the few places left with stable demographics and tiny minority populations.
I agree and will add a very un pc perspective as well from someone who grew up in MA.
One of the reasons behind the shock of the boston bombings is because Boston is a very liberal place and my guess is many there felt that with Obama in the white house, Patrick as governor and Menino as mayor that these types of things just wouldn’t happen anymore. The liberal mind is truly deranged into thinking that the all knowing and all seeing government will feed, cloth, shelter and protect you from all eventualities. I however am not convinced that the people of Boston will change their minds about gun control laws...right now they are confused, but will wait for their government to tell them how to feel and they will step in line.
Those who support the second amendment may have won this round, but the left will fight on for another day, we must stay focused on the 2014 elections.
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