Mitch McConnell: Fighting Against Gun Control Because He's In The Pocket Of The NRA

What’s the deal with gun control? Why is the idea of background checks, and of keeping guns out of the hands of, oh, I dunno, criminals and crazies, such a bad thing?

I mean, surely the majority of Americans are sick and tired of reading about school shooting and mall massacres and want something done about it. Even the President is fighting for some kind of gun control; control, remember, not confiscation, so wipe that NRA lie from your mind.

But, while we argue, and while more folks die from gun-related deaths, Senate Minority Leader, and In-The-Pocket-Of-The-NRA-Republican, Mitch McConnell has announced via spokes-tool that he will filibuster the gun package that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to bring up.

McConnell spokesman Don Stewart: "Sen. McConnell opposes the Reid bill, while nobody knows yet what Sen. Reid’s plan is for the gun bill, if he chooses to file cloture [The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill and thereby overcome a filibuster.] on the motion to proceed to the Reid bill, Sen. McConnell will oppose cloture on proceeding tot that bill.”

Let's backtrack a minute, shall we? McConnell says he opposes the Reid bill yet does not know what the plan for the bill might be? So, he's gonna filibuster and fight for something that he doesn't know about yet? Why?

NRA money. I mean what else could it be? Why else would you want to run roughshod over a discussion of a bill about which you know nothing, unless you are afraid of pissing off the money guys? Or the Teabaggers.

See, McConnell is the fifteenth Republican to jump on the bandwagon of the filibuster effort being led by Tea Party asshat Rand Paul. He could have chosen to stay out of it, letting the votes happen on the gun package, and thereby putting the pressure on House Speaker John Boehner to decide the bill's fate, if it even made it out of the Senate. Instead, McConnell is making a calculated decision to be part of the filibuster effort that could derail the entire push for gun control legislation.

No gun control, in a country that has been decimated by guns. Ask yourself why. Why not background checks? Why not tighter controls on where and when and by who guns can be bought and sold.

Then ask yourself why Mitch McConnell doesn’t care about gun control. Perhaps it’s the $19,000 the NRA donated McConnell, the largest donation to any member of Congress. Seems pretty clear, to Mitch McConnell gun deaths are less important than campaign contributions.

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