Coburn sold us out!

[tacmedic]

Coburn voted for with liberal progressives for cloture on gun control bill.

A bill we still don't know the contents of...


Senate voted 68 to 31

 

[Traxxis]

Isn't this just the vote to open the subject for discussion and debate?

 

[Coded-Dude]

Cloture vote basically means the time to debate will be limited and thusly cannot be filibustered. Requires 3/5 of the Senate.

 

[Shadowrider]

Personally I want them to debate it. I want every one of them on the official record for supporting this BS so then the voters will have more than lip service to base their decisions on.

 

[Dale00]

Coburn voted for with liberal progressives for cloture on gun control bill.

A bill we still don't know the contents of...


Senate voted 68 to 31

If the republicans know they have the votes to defeat it, then it is not a sell out.

 

[freewookie]

If the republicans know they have the votes to defeat it, then it is not a sell out.

Exactly!

 

[Glocktogo]

Personally I want them to debate it. I want every one of them on the official record for supporting this BS so then the voters will have more than lip service to base their decisions on.

This was exactly Coburn's point.

 

[SMS]

Isn't this just the vote to open the subject for discussion and debate?

Yup, and that's when the details of the proposed legislation are debated and discussed...cloture brings that process to an end instead of letting it drag on...and forces a vote to allow the legislation to come to the floor for debate.

Coburn and others are calling the Dems bluff.

 

[Remington]

Coburn and others are calling the Dems bluff.

I hope so. I don't trust vary many of them and they all make me nervouse.

 

[n2sooners]

Still no reason for him to vote for it. It passed with a good sized buffer.