It’s the new version of the Hastert rule which was the majority of the Republican caucus had to approve.
If only the dear leader approves then there might be a vote.
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Yep, and he won’t think twice about trashing the proposal afterwards while admonishing anyone who signed onto it. They’re still cowards who care more about their political careers than human lives, but on a nakedly political level, I understand why no one trusts him not to yank the rug out from under them and make this proposal a GOP litmus test.
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So a Trump administration background check proposal can’t be approved by the GOP assholes until Trump approves a Trump administration background check proposal.
Yeah, that’s about par for the course for these fucking clowns.
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You’ll sooner find a saber-tooth tiger…
The real problem is slippery slopes. Ban them.
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Sheep. Fking sheep. Not a single one of them should have their jobs. VOTE THEM OUT. If you cannot THINK and UNDERSTAND and DO YOUR JOB you are not worth a bucket of warm spit let alone a congressional salary.
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Well, that’s what happens when “we” keep electing one more batshit Republican after another. The country moves much further to the right every time. What was once a just left of center idea now appears to most Americans to be way out of the mainstream. Twenty years ago, it would’ve been unheard of to allow the CRA to languish, yet now it’s business as usual. Reaganism broke this country and pushed it so far to the right things folks generally agreed on, like that poor people should still be able to eat, become deeply controversial.
Also, I’m going to bet that for people who are non-white, LGBT, women, etc. the Democratic Party has made great strides from those Rockefeller Republicans.
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And every Democrat should use this as a campaign plank in 2020, when running against an incumbent. If this is what the American people want, then it explains why we are where we are.
I thought congress was a co equal branch of government?
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Feckless
Spineless
Soulless
Clueless
Hopeless
Gormless
LOSERS
It wasn’t until the reference to the NRA in the last paragraph that I realized that a GUN background check proposal was being floated. In this scandal-plagued administration, I thought the proposal was to do better background checks before appointing individuals to high governmental positions.
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As a professor of mine said years ago. The slippery slope is not a legal argument.
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I would like the name of the GOPers’ obedience school so I can send my dogs there. I would love them to learn how to sit, stay, and roll over and play dead.
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No argument there… you have to vote Democratic
O’Rourke’s frustration is understandable, and so hence is his outburst. But it was counterproductive.
If you have a cat stuck in a tree you don’t bellow at it, “Come down out of that effing tree, right now!!!”
You coax it down, offering it a reason to comply, maybe waving an open can of tuna fish at it, whatever.
Screaming to the nation “You’re damn right we’re coming for your guns, deal with it!!” is not going to push the gun regulation debate very far. Not that anything else has worked well, but O’Rourke’s approach is a loser.
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Apparently Senate Majority Leader is a Cabinet post.
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We noticed.
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We saw that.
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The “slippery slope” concept is as far as I can tell the most challenging abstract idea he’s learned since the escalator ride. He’s probably just repeating it like a parrot with no real understanding but when you’re working at the parrot level yourself that’s pretty good.
Anyway snark aside when these legislators really want to do something they pass it with a veto-proof majority bing bang boom, no fanfare just bam and done. He’s an excuse here.
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I do think it’s kind of cool how legislation is now out there just “floating around,” like ectoplasm at a seance. It used to be so much more work to make law! Now you just whip out the Ouija board in committee and see what develops.
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