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Renew Deal

(81,839 posts) Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:22 PM Jun 2016

The Senate debate on guns is getting lots of attention from non-political people and the republicans

are completely missing from the discussion.

I've talked to several people that are watching it who are not c-span regulars. This might be a politically positive day for Democrats and the country by default.

On a slightly separate note, the lack of republican debaters has made the discussion more substantive and serious.

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The Senate debate on guns is getting lots of attention from non-political people and the republicans (Original Post) Renew Deal Jun 2016 OP

Go filibusterites! Scientific Jun 2016 #1

Do filibusters work when the majority party has no interest in passing legislation? LonePirate Jun 2016 #2

Scientific

(314 posts)

1. Go filibusterites!

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:33 PM

Jun 2016

Make it count.

Make the shameful Republican support of "guns for terrorists" painfully plain.

Make a sensible law.

LonePirate

(13,402 posts)

2. Do filibusters work when the majority party has no interest in passing legislation?

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 04:36 PM

Jun 2016

It's not like the Republicans were pressing to pass a slew of bills that this filibuster is slowing/stopping.

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