Both gun bills fail in the Senate

Expanded background checks fails 54-46 (Toomey-Manchin)
Assault Weapons Ban fails 40-60 (Feinstein)

Will this be the end of it or will there be new bills introduced? I think it's over, that the administration will wait until after the 2014 elections to see what the House and Senate look like.

 

Why Feinstein?

 

My bad, it was her amendment.

 

OK, it didn't make sense she'd be a holdout.

 

It will be over until the next mass shooting (sadly).

 

It know it's the rules, but it doesn't seem right to me that 46 beats 54.

 

Well, that will give everybody a couple weeks to think about it.

 

I guess I understand this and, then again, I don't. Sure, don't want to render the minority party absolutely meaningless...at the same time, the threshold seems too high. The Republicans hold the House so it isn't like they are absolutely helpless.

 

Well, for the Baseball Hall of Fame, 143 beats 426.

 

Do you drive around railroad crossing gates too?

For whatever reason, the mods closed the politics thread. Stuff like this just keeps it closed longer.

 

I would have no problem if they got rid of that threshold. There would be occasional stretches where the president is from the party that controls the house and the senate, but I don't get the sense that happens too often, although I think W. had it for a nice chunk of his presidency. I think Clinton and Obama got it for two years each...

 

Tell you what, if you do not have the maturity to click on a thread about something newsworthy that happened today with out government, without taking overtly political shots, feel free to not click.

So what are you saying? Anything that someone can go to extremes and start a political argument is taboo? This will be a pretty empty message board if that is the case. I don't see anyone arguing or being petty...except for you, of course.