Sipsey Street Irregulars: AWB as red herring. Joe Biden still using Tom Coburn as a gun control Judas goat.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

AWB as red herring. Joe Biden still using Tom Coburn as a gun control Judas goat.

Obama staying out of negotiations on gun bills.

Biden regularly meets with and calls his former Senate colleagues to talk about guns, including holding a White House meeting last week with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., in which they discussed negotiations on background checks that could win support from Republicans. He's even gotten involved at the state level by calling legislators in places like Colorado that are debating gun legislation. And when Obama convened the first Cabinet meeting of his second term earlier this week, he said he would turn the floor over to Biden to talk about their gun initiatives. . .

That campaign is being run out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located next to the White House, where the vice president's staff meets each week with representatives of gun-control groups around a leather-covered conference table. The administration officials and the advocates share updates on the debate and work with Justice Department attorneys on language they can support in the legislation.

Among those who attend are Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Third Way, a centrist organization that advocates on many issues including gun control; the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, named after the White House press secretary seriously wounded in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in 1981; and Americans for Responsible Solutions, recently started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and her husband, Mark Kelly.

Forcing a vote on an assault weapons ban that isn't likely to pass also could give political cover to some moderate Democrats to vote for background checks and trafficking bills. Then those senators can tell gun owners back home that even though they supported background checks or anti-trafficking bills, they didn't support anything that would take away a single gun from law-abiding citizens.

Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn and some of his constituents.

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Anonymous said...: Yes indeed , the Sheeple of AmeriKa " Some will be butchered ALL will be fleeced ". Bite-me is so hung up on his inflated sense of self importance , I don't believe he can see himself being set-up as the scapegoat that will be used by the propagandists to insulate Obama from the fallout when this turns into a real shit-storm.This mob is so predictable. " Thinking themselves wise , they became fools ".; March 10, 2013 at 6:32 AM

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

AWB as red herring. Joe Biden still using Tom Coburn as a gun control Judas goat.

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