Tea Party Cuts Off GOP Terror Bill to Spite Democrats
MATT LASLO
Tea Party Republicans are so appalled at Democrats for holding a sit-in on the House floor that they are balking at a bill that aims to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists just to spite them.
The summer of Speaker Paul Ryan’s sustained headache over gun legislation seems to only be getting hotter, longer and increasingly self-inflicted.
After Democrats staged a drama filled 26 hour protest over gun-control on the House floor two weeks ago, Ryan didn’t want to give in to the minority party’s unprecedented sit-in, so he tried to up the ante by offering an anti-terrorism bill. Who can disagree with that?
Well, it seems the political gamble wrapped in an anti-terrorism package was too much for the insurgent Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, due to the inclusion of a NRA-backed gun proposal.
Rank and file members of House Freedom Caucus — about 40 of the least agreeable Republicans in the House - announced their opposition to Ryan’s effort, in part, because conservatives would rather see him punish Democrats like civil rights icon John Lewis (D-Ga.) who spearheaded the sit-in.
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