THIS NEW BREED OF CONGRESS rarely have the voter in mind at all, unless, of course, that voter’s
a cash-laden heavy hitter with the clout to keep an incumbent on the
leash and comfortably in office.
How else to explain a Congress
that still adamantly refuses to do anything, despite some 90 percent of
the American public being in favor of background checks for gun
purchases and a healthy majority favoring other gun control measures?
Last week, they ignored the pleas of Newtown families and the siege of
violence in Boston and yielded once again to the fanatical rants of
Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association. In just the first
three months of this year, as it shoved back against the renewed push
for controls, the NRA spent a record $800,000 keeping congressional members in line.
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