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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN😎: 'Surreal' Trump meeting on guns left Republicans reeling, Democrats optimistic
After a wide-ranging, televised meeting Wednesday at the White House, Democrats walked away stunned and with some tepid optimism that something substantial could happen on guns, while Republicans appeared flummoxed.
After all, President Donald Trump had defied traditional GOP orthodoxy on an issue as essential to the Republican brand as any: guns.
And unlike earlier meetings where Trump has embraced bipartisanship without any specificity, Trump was explicit about what he wanted Wednesday. On camera, he'd pushed to raise the age at which an individual can purchase a rifle from 18 to 21 even after a weekend lunch with officials from the National Rifle Association, who have publicly opposed the change. Trump called to expand background checks and told the House's Majority Whip Steve Scalise that a concealed carry bill would never pass attached to legislation to incentivize states to enter data into the national background checks database.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/congress-reaction-trump-gun-meeting/index.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)It will be just like the DACA fail.
spanone
(135,841 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)What politicians say in public is often the opposite of what theyre saying among themselves.
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)spanone
(135,841 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)spanone
(135,841 posts)cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)Or its implications.
Stinky The Clown
(67,807 posts)As a side note, Marsha Blackburn proved once again, beyond any doubt, that she is DummberThanDumb.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)I don't know what is.
Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)I need a shower now...
Cha
(297,275 posts)we're talking about.. the Lyingest thing on the Planet.
Yes I made up a new word for him.
TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)He might have learned something from all his mobster friends.
Renew Deal
(81,860 posts)He doesnt want to be the bad guy. He knows congress will produce nothing. So he can promise anything and claim he did the best he can.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)He is a bi-polar, schizophrenic moron.
spanone
(135,841 posts)there's no plan in his head...only talking points...
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)In the hope that it will save him.
Let's see if he suddenly starts supporting more Dem ideas.