Senate Deal on Background Check Law

[JConn]

Wow, President Sad Panda is a whiny little delusional bitch, isn't he? "A minority blocked...?"

Wow.

Yep a 60 vote minority. Math is hard.

[JV_]

Yep a 60 vote minority. Math is hard.

Using their own rules, as long as one democrat voted with the republicans - it was bipartisan.

[RoyGBiv]

4 (5 if you include Reids' procedural switch) D's against.... 4 R's voted in favor.

Four Republicans voted for the amendment, but five Democrats voted against it. One of those Democrats was Reid -- who only switched his vote to oppose it because doing so allows Democrats to call up the measure again. Other Democrats who voted against the measure for non-procedural reasons were Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Sen. Max Baucus of Montana.
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Only four Republican senators committed to voting for the amendment ahead of time. The last was Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who announced his support Wednesday afternoon. The other three were Toomey, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

[RoyGBiv]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...057_video.html

Not sure why I could not make that ^^^ video play...
This one was ok for me..
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...or-washington/

[Tamara]

Wow, President Sad Panda is a whiny little delusional bitch, isn't he? "A minority blocked...?"

Wow.

Yeah, that was where I threw my hands up and walked out of the room, too. This must be one of those 54% minorities...

[ToddG]

54 voted in favor, 46 voted against. The threshold needed to move forward was 60.

So yes, a minority voted against it.

[Tamara]

Well, derp.

That's what I get for running my mouth like an NBC newscaster before reading everything when I get back from the grocery store.

Hey, I've got a suspect in custody for the Boston thing, too. You think CNN will hire me?

[RoyGBiv]

Yes John, you DO stink.

[G60]

Gottlieb played the Senate like a fiddle.

[LHS]

Gottlieb played the Senate like a fiddle.

How so? He was for the bill before he went against it.