“Let us assume Manchin-Toomey gets to a floor vote in the Senate and passes. It still must pass a House vote, which it won’t. “
It will in 2015, when the Dems get the issue they need to win the House. This vote was on gun control, which EVERYONE knew was a lost cause in the House - it was on control of the House in 2015. The Dems probably already had the commercials produced to isolate in on the “Do-Nothing House”. Stopping it in the Senate DESTROYED that plan for next year.
Why do you think it was such a big deal to them - if it was never going to make it to Obama’s desk? I can think of no other reason.
Gun control is not an issue that will help the Democrats win the House. Quite the opposite.
There is a very strange tone to your argument.
Most Americans are opposed to strict new gun control regulations, but pushing these same regulations will assure they’re gaining control of the House.
This is pretty much the same argument that pro-abortion types make. Most Americans favor legalized abortion, but it must be protected as a constitutional right because if it’s left up to the political process every woman who gets an abortion will be prosecuted for murder.
What?