Obama loses 2014 wedge issue in Senate gun vote

A huge win for America. Obama's pissed. Good. 2014 is going to be huge, time to de-fang the Marxist and his subversive minions. 24 lefties are up, only 10 Republicans. Need to pick up +4.

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Obama loses 2014 wedge issue in Senate gun vote

04/17/2013

The Senate’s effective rejection of President Barack Obama’s post-Newtown gun control bill robs the Democratic Party of an important tool for trying to regain a majority in the House in November 2014.

“Are they serious?” a visibly angry Obama demanded of opponents of the Toomey/Manchin Senate bill. In a late-afternoon announcement outside the White House, the president added that if Congress continues not to pass a gun control bill, “the answer will have to come from the voters.”

But without a Senate bill, there’s little chance that vulnerable GOP House members in suburban swing-districts will face the unpleasant choice of either recording a public vote against what Obama repeatedly describes as “common-sense measures to reduce gun violence and save lives” or voting against gun rights supported by the National Rifle Association and many Americans.

The wedge issue was highlighted this morning by Obama’s 2012 strategic advisor, David Axelrod.

“A bunch of suburban, swing district Republicans in House are probably deeply relieved that Senate appears poised to kill background checks,” Axelrod said in a morning tweet.

“Interested to see if [Mayor Mike] Bloomberg and others who’ve worked hard on this issue remain active in 2014 elections, holding no votes accountable,” Axelrod added at 9.43 a.m. EST.

The Senate Wednesday failed by six votes to reach the sixty-vote threshold to bring the bill to a full vote.


Ironically, Obama lost partly because of opposition from several red-state Democrats facing re-election in November 2014.

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