{"id":2658,"date":"2013-06-25T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2019-01-20T20:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T03:01:49","slug":"congress-keeps-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"Congress Keeps Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the Congress sucking theme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a bill that would have strengthened background checks for gun purchases failed to pass despite passing 55-45, this despite a majority voting for it and 90% of Americans wanting stronger background checks. Republican Senators who voted against the bill proudly stated their obstructionism. <a title=\"McConnell mocks gun control failure via Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/04\/17\/mitch-mcconnell-and-his-facebook-meme-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitch &#8216;The Turtle&#8217; McConnell even mocked the legislation on his facebook page after the vote.<\/a> Then of course there is the dishonorable Senator Jeff &#8216;Two-Face&#8217; Flake (but what a great smile and wow, the hair!) from our not-so-great-lately state of Arizona. <a title=\"Sen. Jeff Flake: Yep, My Vote Against Gun Control Tanked My Poll Numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/sen-jeff-flake-yep-my-vote-against-gun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told constituents that he supported background checks and then promptly voted against the bill<\/a>. Then his teenage son recently got into hot water when <a title=\"Arizona Senator\u2019s Son Used Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Language On Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/johnstanton\/arizona-senators-son-used-homophobic-anti-semetic-language-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he tweeted homophobic and racist tweets on Twitter.<\/a>\u00a0 That&#8217;s would Jesus would do, right? So much for compassionate christian conservatism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2696\" title=\"gunloversrejoice\">It&#8217;s nice to know that our elected officials are keeping their priorities straight, eh?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2696\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2696\" title=\"gunloversrejoice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunloversrejoice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunloversrejoice.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gunloversrejoice-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American gun lovers rejoiced after GOP Senators like Mitch &#8216;The Turtle&#8217; McConnell and Jeff &#8216;Two Face&#8217; Flake struck down legislation that would have required universal background checks on all gun purchases.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with the Congress sucking theme&#8230; Recently, a bill that would have strengthened background checks for gun purchases failed to pass despite passing 55-45, this despite a majority voting for it and 90% of Americans wanting stronger background checks. Republican Senators who voted against the bill proudly stated their obstructionism. Mitch &#8216;The Turtle&#8217; McConnell &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Keeps Priorities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,3,1863],"tags":[237,10,20,389,27,107,9,118,705,21,623,98,19,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}