The legislation tightening background checks on gun sales failed,
according to Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa who sponsored the bill, because Republicans couldn't stomach handing Obama a victory, even if the bill had bipartisan support.
"In the end it didn’t pass because we’re so politicized," Toomey told
editors from Digital First Media in an interview published Wednesday by
the Norristown Times Herald.
"There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the
president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president
wanted to do it," Toomey added.
His comments suggest that his
fellow Republicans' votes weren't governed so much by judgment of good
policy so much as a desire to deprive Obama of a political and
legislative victory.
That bodes ill for the next few years. Gridlock again.
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