2016 Postmortem
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helping the president do something he wanted to get done,...
MyGod, so because they dislike Obama we should continue to have massive amounts of tragedies effecting tens of thousands each year?...
Shouldnt the DNC make the the poster for all future elections?.. Says it fucking all....
Link below:
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) blamed partisan politics for the failure of his bipartisan push to expand background checks for gun sales. (Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) revealed that some members of his party opposed expanding background checks for gun sales recently because they didn't want to "be seen helping the president."
Two weeks ago, only three Republican senators voted for the bipartisan background checks amendment sponsored by Toomey and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), despite overwhelming popular support for such a measure.
"In the end it didnt pass because we're so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it, Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/pat-toomey-background-checks_n_3192690.html