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So does your ignorance on how your government process functions. HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 18/04/2013 04:46:53 PM

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only in the US senate can a bill FAIL with a 57-43 vote. maybe one day we will live in an enlightened society, it's certainly not going to happen any time soon at this rate. better to support criminals and wife beaters over the citizens who end up dead by them...

60 votes are needed to add an amendment to an existing bill, not to pass a bill. Passage requires only a simple majority (51 votes, the reason the Vice-President is there). The bill would then be sent to the house, where it has about zero chance of being passed. Thus, this was all a pathetic political stunt instead of an actual attempt to do something useful.

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Obama embarrassed - Senate Gun Control Bill Fails..... Anonymous2000 - 18/04/2013 03:51:37 AM 1007 Views
More importantly, they failed becasue it was just knee-jerk "must do something publicly" BS. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 01:55:43 PM 573 Views
there is no law anywhere which can undo the past moondog - 18/04/2013 03:12:14 PM 530 Views
Let me rephrase... None of them could have prevented a FUTURE attack. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 04:37:43 PM 1075 Views
nothing can prevent future attacks. the goal is to stop criminals getting guns and reduce fatalities moondog - 18/04/2013 06:07:32 PM 470 Views
lol. I can't believe you made thatargument A Deathwatch Guard - 18/04/2013 08:46:45 PM 625 Views
EXACTLY, which is why all this legistation was garbage HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 08:47:35 PM 603 Views
that's right. because our right to be blown away trumps life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness moondog - 18/04/2013 09:06:32 PM 578 Views
Turn off your partisin blinders and listen to logic for once. HyogaRott - 19/04/2013 12:41:12 AM 563 Views
logic dictates that *ALL* gun sales be decided by background check moondog - 19/04/2013 10:27:50 PM 456 Views
Okay, if you say 'logic dictates' like that, you'd better present the actual logic stream Isaac - 20/04/2013 02:52:07 AM 560 Views
you won't accept evidence because you're ok with proliferation of guns to criminals moondog - 22/04/2013 07:31:32 PM 739 Views
More ranting and hyperbole Isaac - 22/04/2013 09:15:12 PM 601 Views
+1 - This is "feel good" legislation that accomplishes nothing..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 18/04/2013 06:06:07 PM 303 Views
yep. republican obstructionism and cowardice knows no bounds.... moondog - 18/04/2013 03:07:46 PM 551 Views
ironclad - 18/04/2013 03:15:15 PM 624 Views
You're being rather partisan here. And wrong to denigrate Republicans. The Shrike - 18/04/2013 03:55:34 PM 626 Views
sorry, who is the minority party again? it's not the democrats moondog - 18/04/2013 06:19:43 PM 604 Views
moondog is funny when his side is losing..... Anonymous2000 - 18/04/2013 06:55:07 PM 511 Views
On legislation that seeks to restrict/reimagine/redefine The Shrike - 18/04/2013 07:30:47 PM 668 Views
this was about regulation, it was not a new amendment. moondog - 18/04/2013 08:41:12 PM 686 Views
perhaps you should discover a dictionary. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 09:01:36 PM 562 Views
PPP, ABC, CNN, Rasmussen and Gallup are all similarly biased on background checks? sure.... *NM* moondog - 18/04/2013 09:16:28 PM 246 Views
WHAT!?!?!! you mean to tell me that news organizations are biased??? Nah! it can't be... HyogaRott - 19/04/2013 12:49:15 AM 501 Views
+1 - if you want to redesigned the 2nd amendment, do it via the constitutional amendment..... Anonymous2000 - 18/04/2013 09:09:35 PM 477 Views
a womans RIGHT to choose, but you don't have any problems with restrictions there moondog - 18/04/2013 09:21:14 PM 516 Views
The state has a law that requires Drs that perfom abortions have admitting priledges to a hospital. HyogaRott - 19/04/2013 12:47:41 AM 567 Views
they also tried to pass zoning laws which would have meant a complete remodel of the building moondog - 19/04/2013 10:35:03 PM 560 Views
Tried to pass infers that the said laws did not, thus are meningless. HyogaRott - 20/04/2013 05:11:59 AM 483 Views
I'm Pro-Choice dumbass..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 19/04/2013 05:01:17 AM 234 Views
Well surprise, surprise, surprise, those amendments WERE debated, that's how they came up for a vote HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 08:53:40 PM 501 Views
and it's still the republican obstructionism which doomed them to failure moondog - 18/04/2013 09:07:51 PM 621 Views
I LOVE obstructionism when it stops stupid ideas. *NM* Anonymous2000 - 18/04/2013 09:10:54 PM 233 Views
well, you *are* the authority on stupid ideas, i'll give you that much! *NM* moondog - 19/04/2013 11:01:31 PM 238 Views
I'd forgotten, Democrats never filibuster Isaac - 18/04/2013 09:33:41 PM 568 Views
right, i forget republicans don't abuse the rules they are only preventing the gov't from working moondog - 18/04/2013 09:39:11 PM 480 Views
It bugs the hell out of me how you don't see that comment as being Dem/Rep interchangeable Isaac - 18/04/2013 11:38:26 PM 456 Views
That's because he is a partisan hack.....nothing more, nothing less. *NM* Anonymous2000 - 19/04/2013 05:02:36 AM 252 Views
before 2010, it only took 51 votes to pass the senate moondog - 19/04/2013 10:36:55 PM 484 Views
The higher usage of late is mostly Reid's fault Isaac - 20/04/2013 02:17:46 AM 794 Views
So does your ignorance on how your government process functions. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 04:46:53 PM 510 Views
don't play dumb, you are better than that moondog - 18/04/2013 06:24:22 PM 496 Views
Nope, nope, nope and nope. A+ job on ignorantly parroting popular political talking poinits though HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 08:50:35 PM 564 Views
prove me wrong then, don't just post nothing *NM* moondog - 18/04/2013 09:08:35 PM 483 Views
Very Enlightened of you, "Agree with me or you're an Obstrucionist and Coward" *NM* Isaac - 18/04/2013 09:31:06 PM 270 Views
i am only acting on your advice to "call a spade a spade" moondog - 18/04/2013 09:42:22 PM 475 Views
No, you're venting anger by demeaning the opposition on grounds that your own side uses too Isaac - 18/04/2013 10:30:24 PM 635 Views
venting? yes. my "side"? i don't think you understand where i'm coming from moondog - 19/04/2013 10:56:28 PM 562 Views
If you don't want to be seen as partisan, don't attack republicans specifically and repeatedly Isaac - 20/04/2013 06:41:57 AM 599 Views
if you don't want republicans attacked, you should convince them to stop taking insane positions moondog - 22/04/2013 07:09:32 PM 599 Views
They're insane to you because they're from the GOP, you'd call it insane if we said water was wet Isaac - 22/04/2013 08:15:00 PM 1012 Views
"an important" is not at all the same thing as "the most important." Aemon - 18/04/2013 04:10:47 PM 740 Views
I agree, BS polling like this (by either side) annoys me. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 04:56:44 PM 458 Views
actually..... moondog - 18/04/2013 06:25:31 PM 604 Views
99.9 going once... 99.9 going twice... SOLD to the beady eyed farrot faced guy in the back row. HyogaRott - 18/04/2013 09:04:06 PM 516 Views
Statistics lie 0% of the time, people lie or see what they want to see 99% of the time *NM* Isaac - 18/04/2013 09:23:17 PM 251 Views
I don't know about that. Legolas - 18/04/2013 09:55:36 PM 499 Views
I think the difference is more than semantic in this case Isaac - 19/04/2013 12:11:04 AM 542 Views
It is a silly poll Isaac - 18/04/2013 09:21:25 PM 610 Views
I don't mind the poll, just the interpretation. Aemon - 18/04/2013 10:27:37 PM 661 Views
That's sort of the point, you don't poll about the other critters with the 900 pound gorilla around Isaac - 18/04/2013 11:46:00 PM 543 Views
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