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Manchin and Toomey are not exactly household names across America, but they may have done what once seemed impossible: break the dead lock on gun control leg.Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Republican Sen. Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania struck a deal that would expand background checks to all commercial gun sales, including gun shows and internet sales, but not private sales among family and friends.Senators announce bipartisan agreement on gun billSenat
stanley cup or says bipartisan gun control deal likelySen. Isakson on gun control debate, Newtown families The bill would also increase funding for school security and make gun-trafficking a federal crime.A plan to expand background checks was all but dead, until Sen. Toomey stepped forward to negotiate with Manchin. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. listens at left, as Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa. announce that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
stanley cup AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Toomey isn t known for being out front on gun issues - he s more o
stanley cup f a debt and budget guy. But he told CBS News that he had to get involved. First of all, it seemed pretty clear to me that some kind of gun legislation was going be on the Senate floor. I was concerned that it could be legislation that Qitf Going the extra distance for votes in Colorado
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stanley thermobecher n Slate. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais For liberals, the story of the Obama presidency is a Cave Allegory: When he talks about working with Republicans, it s a sign he s going to cave. They see it in the current fight over extending the Bush tax cuts, where they are certain the president will drop his resistance to a tax-cut extension for everyone, including those in the upper income bracket. Fight, Don t Cave on Tax Cuts, demands a new ad by the Progressive Change
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stanley thermos is also calling on the president to fight and not let himself get pushed around. This has led to questions about Obama s manhood that have taken the form of a Courtland Milloy analogy based on an injury Obama got playing ball to James Carville s inquisition into whether he had two.Liberals are angry not just because of Obama s position on tax cuts at a time of increased income inequality. They re irritated because he appears to be set on following the same strategy for the second half of his term that failed in the first half: reaching out to Republicans, getting shot down by a unified GOP, and getting no credit for trying. Outgoing Ohio governor Ted Strickland put it this way in an interview with Sam Stein of the Huffington Post: I saw what CNN said after that meeting yesterday. ... The president said he should have been willing to work with the GOP earlier. What
