Mine's Feinstein - whose bill was one of those that failed yesterday.

Hers WOULD HAVE prevented the Orlando atrocity. Because hers was about keeping somebody WHO HAD BEEN ON the terrorist watch list ANY time in the past five years, from getting a gun, even if that person was presently NOT on that list. Which was the exact status of the mass murderer in Orlando at the very moment he opened fire.

We need to make sure that this impasse belongs TOTALLY to the CONS.

Totally. Like 100%. They're the ones who refuse to cooperate. Refuse to do their jobs. They're too chicken to stand up on days of courage like today. All they know how to do is stand in the way.

We need to try to reinforce that fact, any time an opportunity arises.

To the complete and absolute BULLSHIT and lazy-ass quip - "meh, they're all the same. Both parties the same. No difference between the two major parties blah-blah-blah because whateverthefuck..."

Let us examine this just a wee bit.

Who's out there, sitting in on the floor of the House of Reps to insist on a House vote on gun controls, even as this particular list was being compiled? CONS or Dems?

Who's out there, today, Wednesday June 22nd, putting their necks (and in some cases their jobs) on the line to push SOME sort of common sense gun restrictions toward becoming law?

Who insists climate change is just some stupid lie that some stupid liberal made up?

Who remains hellbent on denying, restricting, and just plain ol' taking AWAY a woman's right to choose?

Who's making every effort to legalize voter suppression?

Who's steadfastly in favor of more tax cuts for the rich?

Who's trying to roll back the clock on LGBT rights?

Who's lining up to support legislation that would divide families and screw innocent little kids (and build that nice wall) just because they might be undocumented?

Who's still turning a blind eye to the needs of African Americans?

Who's still pushing to take away affordable health insurance that some 20 million Americans DID NOT HAVE, until the Affordable Care Act changed that?

Who's the gang that seems to think the only way to deal with other nations is to bully them or shoot at them?

Who's busy trying to force one narrow brand of religion on this secular nation?

Who's actually tried to shut down the government?

Who's the gang that conspired - on the very NIGHT of Barack Obama's first inauguration - to block everything he might come up with to solve America's problems? Which party obstructed EVERYTHING? Even if President Obama were to tell everybody the way to do it is vote republi-CON, I'll bet they'd obstruct it. ONLY because he's the one suggesting it.

WHICH party is it - that declares its hatred for government and does everything it can to make sure government is so hamstrung that it can't do anything at all?

Who's got the nominee who says wages are too high?

And as long as we bring him up - Who's got the nominee who routinely behaves like a spoiled, coddled, snot-nosed five-year-old bully on the playground (despite the fact that he's now 70-years-old)?

Let's make sure we give credit where credit is due! It's NOT that "both sides do it" or that "both sides are the same." It's ONE SIDE ONLY. Let's not tar 'n' feather both parties when only one has done this.

Anybody here called - to say thank you?

TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers conveniently located in my sig line below.

I've been using them all morning. They do still work - although sometimes you have to wait on the line for awhile. Must be a lot of phone traffic jamming things up today...

INDEED. Welcome to DU.

I like him. Have for a long time.

Wouldn't mind seeing him as Hillary's running mate. It'd be shrewd geographically, especially with Ohio a swing state. HOWEVER, I'd hate to take a good Dem out of the Senate. Same major reason I'd hesitate about Elizabeth Warren. In both states, there's a CON in the governor's office.

That would be irony at its most exquisite!

It'd be neat if a President Hillary Clinton could revisit Goodwin Liu. And maybe nominate him again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Liu

Oh Great! He wants to go back to the Senate job he never showed up for, in the first place!

Easy paycheck, I guess. Just bill it all to us taxpayers.

That's when I first fell in love with her!

She had me at "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies..." Shit! When I was still working, I felt exactly that way, too!

Several.

I found it disturbing. Serious shit. One does not screw around. Helped reinforce my wishes to clamp down on the damn things.

Major Thank-Yous!

Thank you, to YOU, Logical, and to the others here who have decided to support Hillary! YES we fight as one! (Like that!)