The Infamous Democratic Four Let Their Name Be Known: Cowards, Sellouts, Whores Of The NRA
I am so angry I have nothing to say accept Shame On You Mark Pryor, Max Baucus, Heidi Heitkamp, and Mark Begich, you gutless, spineless, cowardly, sellouts who are nothing more then whores of the NRA!!!!
4 Senators Not To Vote For Next Time They Come Up For Re-Election. They Are Cowards and Sellouts. They Have More Loyalty For The NRA Then Citizens Including Children Who Are Victims Of Gun Crimes. They Have Brought Shame To The Democratic Party and This Nation. Tully Despicable Cowardly Politicians!
No surprise, all four of these cowards are Red States. Had they voted in favor of the Bill it would have passed because Harry Reid would have provided the one additional vote needed to get the 60 yes votes necessary to pass the measure.
From NPR/it's all politics ;
If it seems perplexing why an idea that has broad support nationally could fail to pass the U.S. Senate, here's an important reminder: The Senate is not a democratic institution.
It never has been, and it was never designed to be. Rather, it was structured to give small or sparsely populated states the ability to stop the majority's will. And on Wednesday, that's how it worked out, as the Senate failed to reach a 60-vote threshold to support new background checks on gun purchases.
The 20 least populous states, which among them account for just one-tenth of the nation's population, provided 23 "no" votes, just over half of all the no votes cast. In contrast, the 20 most populous states, accounting for 76 percent of the nation's population, provided 27 yes votes.
So yes, the idea of expanding criminal and mental health background checks to more would-be gun buyers has the support of 90 percent of the U.S. population. But it could only muster 55 supporters (Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., voted no, but only to keep the ability to bring it back later) out of 100 in the Senate.
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