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To: locogringo who wrote (1156544)8/13/2019 2:15:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1572777
 
Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Plan On Letting Background Checks Pass The Senate

It appears that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s apparent openness to background check legislation is just a short-term strategy meant to quiet his critics in the aftermath of the dueling massacres in El Paso and Dayton.

Washington Post reporter Robert Costa told Chris Matthews on Monday that McConnell is just running out the clock until the gun control debate fades away again. In other words, he doesn’t really intend to take meaningful action on the issue.

“McConnell’s play, I’m told, is to just let it peter out,” Costa said. “Talk about being open to background checks and let it play out.”

McConnell is hoping the gun control debate blows over – againThe media pounced on the news last week that McConnell appeared open to joining Democrats and supporting legislation to expand background checks for gun sales.

But he never actually committed to supporting such a bill or even bringing it to the Senate floor for a vote. As I wrote at the time, McConnell and other GOP lawmakers don’t deserve a single ounce of credit until they actually do something.

The further we get away from the shooting massacres in El Paso and Dayton, the more it looks like Republicans – led by Mitch McConnell – are hoping to run out the clock until nobody is talking about this issue anymore.

It’s up to the American people to make sure that doesn’t happen. Not this time.
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