When the Senate voted down new background check requirements supported by overwhelming majorities of the American public, Republican households and even NRA households, a few people in the gallery weren't going to sit quietly for it. Patricia Maisch stood up to shout "Shame on you!" to the assembled senators,
which earned her a police escort out of the chamber:
Patricia Maisch, a hero of the Tucson shooting that left six dead and another 13 wounded, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), was escorted by police out of the Capitol Wednesday for telling senators that they should be ashamed of themselves for blocking a provision requiring background checks for gun sales.
Maisch was one of those that tackled Jared Loughner while he was attempting to reload. I'm guessing a room full of professional cowards wasn't too intimidating, after that.
Outside the Senate chamber, she was surrounded by reporters. "When I was told it was done, I decided that I could not stay still any longer, that they need to be ashamed of themselves," Maisch said. "They have no souls. They have no compassion for the experiences that people have lived through ...
Also escorted out for shouting at the senators was Lori Haas, whose daughter was wounded in the Virginia Tech shootings.
Well done, Patricia Maisch and Lori Haas. Well done indeed. Here's to not putting up with it anymore.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Senate returns to debate on how to cut Postal Service, not how to save it:
The Senate is turning its attention back to the Postal Service, which "everyone" agrees is in crisis. That is to say, the Postal Service is a victim both of legitimate shifts in how we live our lives and communicate with our loved ones and of a manufactured crisis resulting from simultaneous congressional demands that it "run like a business" and congressional restrictions preventing it from running like a business in ways that would help.
The policy world debate over what to do about the Postal Service centers around cuts cuts cuts: Should post offices and processing centers be closed or just downsized? Should Saturday delivery be cut now or in a couple years? And so on. There are other possibilities that would bring the possibility of the Postal Service adapting more fully to the rise of the internet […]
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Tweet of the Day:
Gabby Giffords just texted: "If Congress won't change laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change members of Congress."
— @jbendery via web
On today's
Kagro in the Morning show, we go back over the procedure for today's Senate voting on the gun bill, and some of the more troubling substance as well. 60 votes required, but no filibuster? I can explain! Among the "poison pills": reciprocity for concealed carriers, even as news of suspected fraud in the permit process breaks. Plus the "I'm gonna start killing people" guy gets his permit back now, too. Also: the forgotten consequences of GunFAIL. In other news: the collapse of a major tenet of austerity doctrine. Seems high debt to GDP ratios don't predict economic contraction at all. Whoops! Sorry, global economy!
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