{"id":19435,"date":"2013-04-18T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19435"},"modified":"2013-04-18T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T04:00:36","slug":"rolling-stones-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/rolling-stones-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones”You Can’t Always Get What You Want”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Barack Obama’s push on gun control suffered a major blow Wednesday when the senate defeated<\/a> a gun-buyer background check bill put together by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).<\/p>\n

The amendment failed 54 to 46, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster of the measure.<\/p>\n

\"0408_obama_630x420\"Obama spoke on the failed measure Wednesday evening in the White House rose garden. He took to the podium after Mark Barden, the father of a Newtown victim.<\/p>\n

“Our hearts are broken, our spirit is not,” Barden said.<\/p>\n

Obama placed blame on the gun lobby during his remarks.<\/p>\n

“The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill,” Obama said.<\/p>\n

The president said the failure of the background check bill “came down to politics<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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“There are no coherent arguments for why we didn’t do this,” Obama said.<\/p>\n

Obama’s anger was apparent during his remarks, which were given as families of shooting victims and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) — a shooting survivor — stood behind him.<\/p>\n

“All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington,” Obama said.<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama’s push on gun control suffered a major blow Wednesday when the senate defeated a gun-buyer background check bill put together by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). The amendment failed 54 to 46, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster of the measure. Obama spoke on the failed measure Wednesday evening in the White House rose garden. He took to the podium after Mark Barden, the father of a Newtown victim. “Our hearts are broken, our spirit is not,” Barden said.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}