Taking their cue from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Republicans are refusing to move on guns until President Donald Trump decides what he’d sign.
According to Politico, top Republican congressional leaders are hoping to corner Trump during a meeting Tuesday to suss out what, if anything, he feels like doing on the issue.
Meanwhile, one of the most strident gun control envoys from the Democratic side of the aisle, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), is losing faith.
“I’m less optimistic than I was a couple weeks ago,” Murphy told Politico. “I haven’t walked away from the table, the White House hasn’t. … We put some creative ideas on the table, they put some creative ideas on the table, but we’re not there.”
Trump tends to be open to gun control measures in the immediate wake of a mass shooting, but to cool to the prospect under pressure from the NRA and his gun-happy base.
How many more ?
“You’ll find out”
“We’ll see”
“It is going to happen again. It’s going to happen again. Every time, it’s somebody else’s school, it’s somebody else’s community, it’s somebody else’s town. Until one day, you wake up and it’s not.”
Portraits in cowardice.
One would think that you can only wait for Godot for so long.
Dear GOPers,
Dust off your pocket editions and read:
Article I, Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Article 1, Section 7: If after such reconsideration [after a presidential veto] two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law.
It’s the job you were elected to do.
Well, that’s the best assurance we can ever get that absolutely nothing will happen on this matter for at least the next year and a half.