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2022-06-18 -Land of the Free

Cornyn bombarded with boos over Senate gun bill at Texas GOP convention

[HOT AIR] "The video doesn’t do it justice. It was really bad," someone who was there told Axios’s Jonathan Swan.

Is this game over for the Senate gun bill, which was already encountering "serious doubts"?

Maybe not. For one thing, US Senator John Cornyn must have known what was coming when he decided to show up to a Texas Republican event in the middle of a gun-control negotiation. In fact, he’s apparently used to being booed at the convention. If boos were likely to change his mind, he would have quit the negotiations yesterday and arrived today as the uncompromising hero of gun owners everywhere.

He tried to reason with the crowd, explaining what is and isn’t in the bill:

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-18 00:37|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 When you believe your peer group is more important than your constituents. You know, just like CEOs who believe their peer group is more important than the stockholders.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-18 07:15|| 2022-06-18 07:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Getting that from the people whose votes you need is a wakeup call.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-18 07:16|| 2022-06-18 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 As many reasons as there are to dislike / distrust McConnell, he's played this masterfully again. Summer recess in a couple weeks and then nothing happens before the midterms. Then the message sent by the midterms blows it off the table completely.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-18 07:19|| 2022-06-18 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 "should be", MM, not "is"

Posted by Mercutio 2022-06-18 07:21|| 2022-06-18 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Agreed, Mercutio. What it is and what it is perceived to be are always two distinct things.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-18 07:24|| 2022-06-18 07:24|| Front Page Top

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