Even Some Liberals Disgusted by Congressional Sit-In Farce

Not even the libs at Gawker can stomach the spectacle of Democrats turning Congress into a pajama party while attempting to associate a tyrannical measure with civil rights:

After Democrats in the Senate staged a filibuster in support of gun control measures, their colleagues in the House have begun a “sit-in” aimed at embarrassing Republicans into allowing a vote on a measure that would restrict the ability of suspected terrorists to legally buy guns. The move is fantastic political theater. It’s also a tremendous waste of popular support and activist energy in support of a measure that isn’t just ineffective but also actively offensive. …

The no-fly list is a civil rights disaster by every conceivable standard. It is secret, it disproportionately affects Arab-Americans, it is error-prone, there is no due process or effective recourse for people placed on the list, and it constantly and relentlessly expands. As of 2014, the government had a master watchlist of 680,000 people, forty percent of whom had “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” This is both an absurdly large number of people to arbitrarily target in gun control legislation, and far, far too few to have any meaningful effect on actual gun ownership, let alone gun violence.

These clowns would be highly beatable, if Republicans could prevent the GOP from being hijacked by one of them.

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On a tip from Torcer. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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