Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BUZZFEED WASHINGTON — Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill. On a conference call with "stakeholders," Biden told gun control advocates that the fight is ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from CNS News: In reaction to the defeat of gun control in the U.S. Senate yesterday, editorial pages across the nation are seething with anger, lashing out at rural America, gun manufacturers and the NRA. Both the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune called the defeat "shameful" - echoing Pres. Obama who yesterday called the defeat ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Thursday said he should be blamed for the Senate’s stinging defeat of expanded background checks for gun purchases, not President Obama. “If people want to blame, I guess you blame me,” Manchin told reporters at a Wall Street Journal breakfast. “I just never knew how hard it was ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday he’s placing a expanded gun-purchase background checks on ice, bringing a sudden halt to a months-long debate as he and other gun control advocates nevertheless vowed to fight another day. Mr. Reid said Thursday that after speaking with President Obama, the best option going forward after ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Weekly Standard: Vice President Joe Biden appeared to wipe away tears after a father of a Newtown victim spoke in the Rose Garden, and just as President Obama took the podium to speak about the Democratic-controlled Senate not expanding today's gun votes:
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jonathan Papelbon says that the president is out to take your guns. The pitcher, who came to prominence during his run with the Boston Red Sox (including as the team’s closer during their victorious 2007 World Series run), spoke with CSN Philadelphia and said, “Today’s day and age has gotten ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REAL CLEAR POLITICS Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) mocked Second Amendment rights activists while announcing his support for a ban on assault weapons and limits to high-capacity magazine clips on the Senate floor today. REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TWITCHY Model Chrissy Teigen is having a bit of a snit fit. She deleted that tweet (sorry, toots, but Twitchy is forever). She has not yet deleted the rest of her unhinged meltdown. Like Wil Wheaton, Teigen took to Twitter to throw a tantrum over the failure of the Manchin-Toomey gun control legislation. Wil was ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
The U.S. senate just voted against expanding background checks for gun sales. What a pathetic, gutless bunch of cowards. #NewtownBetrayed— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 17, 2013 Excerpted from NEWSBUSTERS After the Toomey-Manchin gun bill failed in the Senate on Wednesday, CNN's Piers Morgan let loose on Twitter at President Obama and "cowards" in the Senate who ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CBS NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg ripped the U.S. Senate for failing to pass a bipartisan effort to expand background checks. The measure was defeated in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, failing to garner the 60 votes necessary to block a Republican-led filibuster. The measure, co-sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Patrick ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
But FT Hood wasn't an act of terror ? “This wasn’t ‘workplace violence.’ It was a terrorist act. He was performing his jihad.” — Fort Hood survivor. Excerpted from CNS NEWS At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday, McCaskill said, “But I’m a former prosecutor and I’ve got a question ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent at least $14 million in support of new gun control legislation since December, when the Obama administration began its push for gun control in the wake of Adam Lanza’s shooting spree in Newtown, Conn. Bloomberg’s group had supported calls for a so-called assault weapons ban, ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. Democratic Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Max Baucus (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced her assault weapons ban amendment this morning, warning her Senate colleagues that universal background checks would not have prevented the Sandy Hook massacre. “We know one thing, none of this information would have been caught on a background check,” Feinstein insisted. “And I say that, although I ...
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