Top Republican Criticizes Rand Paul For Threatening To Filibuster Gun Bill He Hasn’t Even Seen

[DonViejo]

Source: ThinkProgress


By Igor Volsky on Apr 6, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Thirteen Republican senators have pledged to filibuster a senate debate about new gun safety measures, insisting in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that they will “oppose any legislation that would infringe on the American people’s constitutional right to bear arms, or their ability to exercise this right without being subjected to government surveillance.” The threat, which Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) first made last week without seeing the bill, comes just days before the body prepares to consider the first comprehensive gun legislation in the aftermath of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The package will expand restrictions against gun trafficking, invest in school safety and provide for universal background checks of all gun purchases.

But one top Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), is speaking out publicly against the group, questioning the wisdom of promising to filibuster legislation that lawmakers have yet to finalize:

After Mr. Coburn was asked multiple times an identically worded question about whether he would join Mr. Paul’s effort to block gun legislation as he traveled around Oklahoma in recent days, Mr. Coburn bristled at the idea that Mr. Paul would threaten to filibuster a bill before its contents were made final.

“Is that about filibustering a bill to protect the Second Amendment, or is that about Rand Paul?” Mr. Coburn said at a town-hall meeting at the Oklahoma Sports Museum in Guthrie, Okla., on Wednesday. “I’ve done more filibusters than Rand Paul is old,” Mr. Coburn said, but he added that he doesn’t announce such moves before he understands the bill.

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/06/1830921/top-republican-criticizes-rand-paul-for-threatening-to-filibuster-gun-bill-he-hasnt-even-seen/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Just like gun nuts, they start shooting before they determine there is a problem.

Totally useless, one time Paul gets a little glory and now they are fighting to get into line.

[Mr.Bill]

2. Let them keep doing it.

It shows the presidential electorate what a bunch of idiots they are.

My apologies to the idiots of the world.

[alp227]

3. Shooting first, asking later???

No surprise from the party that supports "stand your ground"!

[DRoseDARs]

4. Shooting first, telling the victims and their families to go fuck themselves later. nt

[Cha]

5. Kinda hard to read it with their collective head

Up their Ass.

[demcoat]

6. Isnt this the equivalent

of some people on this site dismissing a SS compromise they haven't seen?

[William769]

7. Are you Democrat, Republican or other?

[demcoat]

8. Democrat

I can say that I never voted for a republican politician in my life.

[William769]

9. Good.

Welcome to Democratic Underground.

[demcoat]

10. Thank you very much :)