Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Background vs. backbone: You name it
Now that the defeated background check bill has become an NRA trophy despite 90 pct. public support and a 54-46 majority in the Senate (without Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman's support) , shouldn't we now stop referring to it as a background check and instead call it a "backbone check" for the senators who voted against it?
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Roughly paraphrasing the celebrated political satirist-comedian, Mark Russell, what do you get when you grab senators by the ankles, and turn them upside down and shake them? Answer: NRA lobbyists falling out of their pockets.
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