No Background checks because “there were some on my side who did not want to be seen ...

[busterbrown]

helping the president do something he wanted to get done,...”

MyGod, so because they dislike Obama we should continue to have massive amounts of tragedies effecting tens of thousands each year?...

Shouldn’t the DNC make the the poster for all future elections?.. Says it fucking all....

Link below:


Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) blamed partisan politics for the failure of his bipartisan push to expand background checks for gun sales. (Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) revealed that some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales recently because they didn't want to "be seen helping the president."

Two weeks ago, only three Republican senators voted for the bipartisan background checks amendment sponsored by Toomey and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), despite overwhelming popular support for such a measure.

"In the end it didn’t pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/pat-toomey-background-checks_n_3192690.html

[Voice for Peace]

1. this should be a chargeable offense

something like treason. jeez.

[Nancy Waterman]

4. Politics over country

= Treason. Yes, it should be punishable. They broke their oath if nothing else.

[hack89]

21. Criminalizing politics? Are there enough cells available? nt

[Cali_Democrat]

24. Remove non-violent drug offenders

That should free up a lot of room for the Republicans and their right wing gun nut fanatics.

[hack89]

25. And when the pendulum swings the other way, there will be Dems taking their place

I would imagine a prison full of politicians of either stripe would be an interesting place.

[SunSeeker]

27. Well then, I'm sure you'll find the jail Seigelman is in very "interesting." nt

[hack89]

29. Why would you think that?

his jailing is a gross miscarriage of justice.

[barbtries]

2. he told the truth.

the sad, ridiculous truth. republicans don't give a flying fuck about the country or its citizens.

[thesquanderer]

3. Republicans are Klingons

From Star Trek III:

Kirk: You should take the Vulcan too.
Kruge: No.
Kirk: But why?
Kruge: Because you wish it.

[freshwest]

5. +1

[Orrex]

6. Except for that stuff about honor.

[Moostache]

11. Perfect analogy...if you squint just a little I think there's a physical resemblence too! (nt)

[calimary]

13. Ferengi is more fitting.

Only in it for the profit. And their many Rules of Acquisition.

[Voice for Peace]

23. this one's a real ferengi..

Duncan Hunter.. totally a sales job

[calimary]

31. I'll bet he's already lined up his next job...

[freshwest]

7. Just as they voted with their soul brothers, Iran, Syria and North Korea:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=110243

That's a bit offtopic from what you're saying, but I just wanted it on the record, that they love the weapons trade more than they love America. While at the same time they want to invade them for being 'evil.'

And they have never varied from their scheme to make Obama a one-term president, no matter how many people are hurt by defying the will of the people who voted him in.

[NewJeffCT]

9. well, now it's about 2016

If they can keep hamstringing Obama on everything, his entire presidency will look like a failure and that means a Republic is more likely to be elected in 2016.

[freshwest]

10. But Obama won't be running; they're working on 2014 to win in 2016.

If we don't shove these jerks out of office in 2014, they'll have a narrative for 2016.

[NewJeffCT]

17. Yes, I know Obama won't be running

but, the most likely nominee is Hillary, and they'll tie her to Obama every way they can. Benghazi was all about hurting Obama for 2012 and Hillary for 2016. Nothing else, really.

[freshwest]

18. Gonna run on myths of Benghazi and Boston.

Since Rand Paul went after Hillary and is the CPAC favorite, it'll be totally disgusting. The GOP will present their first full Teabagger presidential candidate. Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and Mittens will try again. I can't fathom the mentality that loves Graham, Cruz, Rubio and Paul. All of them are scoundrels. The next few years will be nauseating.

[NewJeffCT]

20. The RWers are the ones that vote in the primaries

Chris Christie is conservative, but not as radically right-wing as the ones you mentioned... and Christie is very popular nationally with moderates and the "less intense" voters. But, will they vote in primaries for him without the big money behind him like Mitt had?

There's almost no way Christie wins Iowa or South Carolina, so he'd need to win New Hamshire to stay viable. (Remember moderate Rudy Giuliani and him putting all his eggs in the Florida basket, and ending up spending $50 million for 1 delegate..?)

[freshwest]

22. Could be... but I'd be surprised if they don't go full bagger. They've run off the 'moderates.'

The baggers have the Koch money and the media in their pockets already. The Sanford race may show if Rand and FreedomWorks are a force to be reckoned with. If the voters vote for that scumbag, they'll go with anything.

I think the big money will be with the baggers. Wouldn't be happy with Christie, either, though. He'd be just as likely to sell off everything like Jeb, Rick Scott, Scott Walker and the rest of the beholden to Koch crooks.

Gosh, just thinking about these people makes me wanna .

[bemildred]

8. They are lying, give them enough money and they will vote for anything at all. nt

[TNNurse]

12. Sticking to it

They promised to not pass things he wanted done. The Affordable Care Act slipped past them but now even deaths of innocent children will not keep them from stopping this President from making this country safer.

DAMN!

I do not know how to post a video of John Prine singing " Your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore", but I am singing it to myself.

[calimary]

14. Um... you could start by naming names, toomey.

There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.

[azurnoir]

15. so they admit they're voting for party

rather than what their constituents want?

[sfpcjock]

16. Then they had a special vote to deny background checks to people on the terror watch list...

Then they went on vacation for two weeks.

[Ccarmona]

19. Imagine a Dem

making this statement during the Bush years.
Fox News would be burying him (or her), calling that person a traitor, and calling for Impeachment.
The Repugs always remind me of Andy Devine's line in Blazing Saddles: " The Sheriff is a ni...." .

[Vietnameravet]

26. This really really pisses me!

These bastards hate Obama more than the love their country and actions like this piss me!

I am also pissed the party of Hannity and Limbaugh and all the rest is now selling the narrative that it is the Democrats who are divisive!! Are they totally delusional or do they think we are just plain stupid!

The test is coming next year..if they win more seats in the 2014 election this will only encourage them.. We must start NOW getting ready to crush these cockroaches once and for all .as soon as possible!

[sheshe2]

28. This why we need to get out and VOTE 2014! nt

[quadrature]

30. the 'registry', was the problem ...

no registry, the rest would have passed.