John Lewis leads sit-in on House Floor to pass gun control legislation.

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The art of political grandstanding and playing hardball for partisan point scoring. Part of me does feel a twinge of satisfaction seeing the Republicans served their own medicine, I can tell whose playbook the House Democrats are currently lifting from. This is an extremely negative development overall though, and a likely a sign of even more intensified brinksmanship later on down the road. Congressional procedure has been paralyzed into perpetual gridlock and the machinations of the legislative chambers have withered into desiccated husks. We essentially have an entire branch of government which has stopped functioning properly, and it's only getting worse.