Bipartisan gun control amendment fails in the Senate

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Giffords, Obama, Newtown parents, and others are speaking in front of the White House now.

Measure to expand background check (Manchin-Toomey amendment) voted down, 54-46

Scum.  What a slap in the face to my town and everyone else who's been affected by gun violence.

WHAT?? That thing was so watered down it should've passed. I mean, I was almost ashamed of how watered down it was, but I mean, Pat friggin Toomey proposed this, he had to bring some of conservatives on his side.

This is one of the few Gun Control measures I support, and this is frustrating.

I feel the exact same way, but as you can see from the roll call, Democrats are responsible for its demise, as well.

Reletively speaking, there's ONE party that is OVERWHELMINGLY responsible for this catastrpohe, I'm ashamed to say.

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Good point. Obama's blame in this measure's defeat is clearly second only to Congressional Democrats.

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Good point. Obama's blame in this measure's defeat is clearly second only to Congressional Democrats.

Huh?  I never blamed Obama for this measure's defeat, if that's what you're getting at.  I'm not blaming congressional Democrats in general, either.  I'm blaming certain Democrats for not helping pass this measure in spite of the fact that an overwhelming majority of the population agrees with them on it.  It still wouldn't have been enough to overcome the filibuster, but the fact that there was bipartisan opposition to the bill doesn't help the cause.  It was the same argument the Republicans used against the health care bill.

No, I was referring to muon's post that more thn implied obama's lack of lbj syle vote counting skills was a mjor contributor to the measure's defeat.