Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) held a call with three chairman and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to seriously talk gun control measures — but not so seriously as to consider cutting short the August recess to come back to work.
Never, ever cut the vacation short. Just shows this is still not important to them and will never be.
Hoping after all the anti-McConnell attention and Mitch’s little boo boo, this nasty piece of work will decide not to run.
Why rush back to do nothing? They can do nothing and play golf at the same time.
A little delay, some new outrage from the president, and we can get back to bullets-as-usual. It’s worked for years.
“Mitch McConnell (R-KY) held a call with three chairman and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to seriously talk gun control measures …”
“How do we best do nothing of substance this time, but still market it as though we really care? Should we use the same old strategy we always do, or do we need to add something to the rhetoric this time?”
Serious stuff.
My guess is that they’ll work on some toothless red flag law and threaten video games. The video game debate will be reminiscent of the comic book hysteria of the 50’s. They’re going to try to make video games the moral panic that can take people’s attention away from the racism and white nationalism that is their actual platform.
I suspect they’ll invoke some timely targets like the wild-eyed citizens of the arcades, drunk on Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac-Man, now helplessly re-programmed to be shooters by Nintendo. Never say these guys aren’t hip to the teens.
They can eat more of the clock if they just stay away.
Betcha there was plenty of “let’s just wait it out, Cheatolini will make sure everyone is distracted within 24 hrs anyway…”
I remember when politicians would at least pretend to give a fuck.
Hey now, we gotta have time to get cash, talk with our .01% supporters, take some time off. It is asking way toooooooooooo muuuuuuch to expect us to skip that vacation we have been planning since our last vacation of what 30 or so days ago, we deserve time off. We are sure (fingers crossed) that another “patriot” will refrain from taking things into their own hands. Then again if we give it enough time people will move on and for sure the fake news people will find something else to lie about…
Old white Republican men from Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi. What a solid cross-section of perspectives to formulate a solution for this national crisis.
And, write into law that everyone in the US has to have a mental health check up once a year. That will fix the problem!
Do you remember bipartisanship? I know it’s a vague memory, but I think there used to be some of that.
Exactly. That’s Moscow Mitch’s favorite hold card.
Shorter GOP: Does this mean that we really have to repeal that law we passed making easy for people adjudged mentally ill to get guns?
They’re popular?! That’s what he’s going with?!! OMG.
That has been pretty much dead since Gingrich was Speaker.
It won’t work. Everybody’s kids have been playing video games for 35 years. And even those too young to remember the comic book bullshit remember the D&D bullshit.
He has the Supreme Court on his side. In Heller, Justice Scalia said "the sorts of weapons protected [by the 2nd Amendment] were those ‘in common use at the time’.” If popularity is a measure of common use, and because the Justices have all expressed their deference to precedent, what can Congress do?