The timing of Biden’s comment about the potential for bipartisan legislation, days after Senate Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that Democrats hoped might be a jumping-off point for broader gun-rights negotiations, is poignant
When asked Monday if he believes the current talks between Democrats and Republicans could produce actual legislation,that the president told reporters, “I don’t know, but I think there’s a realization on the part of rational Republicans... that we can’t continue like this. We can’t do this.”
But, according to Biden, those so-called “rational Republicans” include the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Texas Sen. John Cornyn —whose involvement in this political narrative feels like foreshadowing that Lucy is getting ready to lift the football once again. Anyone who’s been paying attention for the past decade of mass shooting coverage knows that calling for bipartisan solutions and then stonewalling is one of
—a play he’s broken out after numerous tragedies including Sandy Hook, the Charleston shooting in 2015, and the Parkland massacre.an article in which actual safety experts dismantled Republicans’ “single entry” schools proposition with a three-word rebuttal: “Do like airports?” If there’s one morning ritual guaranteed to prepare grade schoolers for a day of learning, surely it’s a school drop-off experience that mimics the TSA.
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