Well, to pass the Senate, it would need a cloture proof majority (60 votes). Apparently, they can't do this one via "reconcilliation" and use the nuclear option.
Here's hoping a little, at least.
Also Congress is taking their midsummer break and won't be back for awhile, unless some further "rules changes" happen and they get forced back to work next week just to vote on this crap.
Bear in mind the House had to vote to change it's own procedures to ram this one down the pipe. It got hung up in committee and debate because the black caucus objected to all the police funding (as they should!) and the white Dems had to tweak the police BS a little to get the black Dems on board. So what happened is it actually wasn't going to come up to a vote today, but they changed their rules specifically to get a vote rammed through.
Because they fully well know that if any more time passed, the public would get distracted by something else.
That's how desperate these clowns are. They change their own rules at their convenience, usually when a gun bill comes to the floor. Economy bills? Oh who cares, let them linger...
That being said the Senate has a fair chance of stopping this in it's tracks. A supermajority is needed, and I think after the backlash after the Uvalde nonsense, a lot of GOP Senators are gonna think twice. The Uvalde bill, while nefarious, was only really for showboating and laden with industry jargon beyond the funding parts.
The word "ban" doesn't play well in even moderate GOP districts, and I don't see Manchin voting for this, as he's already on shaky ground for re-election.
However that being said we shouldn't have to be on life-and-death mode all the time. The idea of the Constitution and BoR was to lock things in as nigh-untouchable so Congress could concentrate on more day-to-day matters, like the economy.
Like, people are struggling financially and Congress is ****ing about with a ban that really only the Democratic base gets moist about?
meter. And never just to believe what they are told... even what we tell them. Have them vet it for themselves. Does it make sense to them, after some analysis? That's what really matters.
