The United States Senate isn’t the only dysfunctional anachronism in America

18 Thursday Apr 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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guns, NRA, States United to Prevent Guns Violence

Previously:

We know who owns America (April 17, 2013)

An effective ad from States United to Prevent Gun Violence:

Guns have changed.

Shouldn’t our gun laws?

2 thoughts on “The United States Senate isn’t the only dysfunctional anachronism in America”

Michael Bersin said:

April 18, 2013 at 3:18 pm

From David Atkins at Digby’s place:

….There was an opportunity at the beginning the session to change the rules to prevent Republicans from blocking a vote with only 46 Senators, without even needing to hold the floor making speeches to defend standing against 90% of the American public. Senators Reid and Feinstein were among those who refused to make that change.
They knew when they kept the Senate rules as is that this sort of thing would almost certainly happen. And it has.
So no whining. They had an opportunity to fix this, and they didn’t.

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Bob Yates said:

April 18, 2013 at 4:49 pm

We need to make the last paragraph in Gifford’s op-ed in the New York Times come true:

Mark my words: if we cannot make our communities safer with the Congress we have now, we will use every means available to make sure we have a different Congress, one that puts communities’ interests ahead of the gun lobby’s. To do nothing while others are in danger is not the American way.

We now must move on after this shameful vote and elect a Congress that will pass legislation that 90% of us want.

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