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rhett o rick

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7. Your logic needs help. First of all you assume that all the Democrats
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 09:36 AM
Apr 2013

would vote in favor if there wasnt Republican to vote it down. That's not a valid assumption. Because 5 assured that the bill would be defeated, the remainder got to look good to their constituents and voted in favor. I am willing to bet that if 8 votes were needed the Dems would have coughed them up.

You assume that 51 Senators wanted the bill to pass. Bad assumption.

I dont know how many Democrats were influenced to favor the gun lobby but it only took 5.

The controlling votes were Democrats.

The Democrats have the power to control the Senate but they yield that power to the REpublicans so they can continue to look good to their constituents and still let the corporations rule.

I truly wish the Democrats were the good guys and REpublicans the bad guys. That makes life sooo easy. And some of us want the easy way. But the truth is that corporations own a good share of the Democratic Party as well as the complete Republican Party.

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