Those who are not either down right insane, open white supremacists, spittle flecked homophobes and/or totally owned by the gun lobby are finding it increasingly difficult to countenance the growing batshitery that passes for informed Republican thought nowadays. One such increasingly frustrated member of the GOP is former Congressman Joe Scarborough, now a MSNBC news show host. Scarborough has blasted Virginia GOP lunatic-in-chief, Ken Cuccinelli an the past and now he has let loose on members of the Congressional GOP who seek to block any meaningful gun control reform. One cannot help but wonder when Scarborough will be ridden out of the GOP on a rail for simply speaking rational truth. Think Progress looks at his latest blast at the GOP. Here are highlights:
Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough tore into the growing number of conservative senators who have pledged to filibuster a comprehensive gun safety bill without reading the proposal. The 13 senators — including likely 2016 presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Rand Paul — will win support “from a segment of your voting population,” Scarborough reasoned, but are ultimately damaging the Republican party by prioritizing the rights of criminals and the mentally ill rather than gun safety. The Senate is expected to take up a comprehensive measure this month that will expand restrictions against gun trafficking, invest in school safety and provide for universal background checks of all gun purchases.
“[T]here are a lot of guys out there in the Senate and they are going out because it’s a free shot,” Scarborough, who embraced gun safety in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting, said Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “It’s not like making a tough choice on Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security. This costs you nothing. But it does cost the Republican Party, overall”:
“We got an issue that is a 92-7 [percent] issue and I can’t believe that Republicans, first of all, aren’t going to support it, but secondly won’t let background checks against rapists, people who have committed manslaughter in the past, people with mental illness, dangerous mental illness — I can’t believe those Republicans are going to allow the entire Republican Party to be the party that basically put rapists’ rights over parents’ rights to keep their kids safe when they go to school.”“Think of the killings and shootings since Newtown,” he continued. “There hasn’t been a mass killing yet but there will be…it’s going to happen again and when it happens again and 92 percent of Americans have asked them to do something and they don’t do it, it’s just going to have devastating political impact on everybody.”
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