{"id":2358,"date":"2013-04-17T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/04\/17\/a-load-of-bovine-excremen\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:40","slug":"a-load-of-bovine-excremen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"A Load Of Bovine Excrement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13721,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mikebloomberg.com\\\/index.cfm?objectid=19BBE8AB-C29C-7CA2-F7969E29686C5FF6&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mikebloomberg.com\\\/index.cfm?objectid=19BBE8AB-C29C-7CA2-F7969E29686C5FF6&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\/index.cfm?objectid=19BBE8AB-C29C-7CA2-F7969E29686C5FF6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I just read Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s response <\/a>to the defeat of Manchin-Toomey. If you need some organic fertilizer for your garden, there is a lot of it here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>&#8220;Today&#8217;s vote is a damning indictment of the stranglehold that special<br \/>\ninterests have on Washington. More than 40 U.S. senators would rather<br \/>\nturn their backs on the 90 percent of Americans who support<br \/>\ncomprehensive background checks than buck the increasingly extremist<br \/>\nwing of the gun lobby. Democrats &#8211; who are so quick to blame Republicans<br \/>\n for our broken gun laws &#8211; could not stand united. And Republicans &#8211; who<br \/>\n are so quick to blame Democrats for not being tough enough on crime &#8211;<br \/>\nhanded criminals a huge victory, by preserving their ability to buy guns<br \/>\n illegally at gun shows and online and keeping the illegal trafficking<br \/>\nmarket well-fed. Senators Manchin and Toomey &#8211; as well as Majority<br \/>\nLeader Reid and Senators Schumer, Kirk, Collins, McCain and others &#8211;<br \/>\ndeserve real credit for coming together around a compromise bill that<br \/>\nstruck a fair balance, and President Obama and Vice-President Biden<br \/>\ndeserve credit for their leadership since the Sandy Hook massacre. But<br \/>\neven with some bi-partisan support, a common-sense public safety reform<br \/>\ndied in the U.S. Senate at the hands of those who are more interested in<br \/>\n attempting to protect their own political careers &#8211; or some false sense<br \/>\n of ideological purity &#8211; than protecting the lives of innocent<br \/>\nAmericans. The only silver lining is that we now know who refuses to<br \/>\nstand with the 90 percent of Americans &#8211; and in 2014, our ever-expanding<br \/>\n coalition of supporters will work to make sure that voters don&#8217;t<br \/>\nforget.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least he blames both Democrats and Republicans alike for the failure of the bill. I&#8217;ll give him that.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is his ideological blindness bordering on hypocrisy. If you rewrote the first two sentences and substituted Colorado for Washington and US, you&#8217;d have exactly what just happened in Colorado. To say that most Coloradans were in favor of those gun control bills would be a lie. Moreover, the Democrats in the Colorado House and Senate were told by their leaders (and Bloomberg&#8217;s lobbyists) to ignore what their constituents were saying. If that isn&#8217;t turning their back on Coloradans, what is?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s response to the defeat of Manchin-Toomey. 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