{"id":17498,"date":"2013-03-19T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17498"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:35:23","slug":"red-state-dems-flee-feinstein%e2%80%99s-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17498\/red-state-dems-flee-feinstein%e2%80%99s-assault-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Red State Dems Flee Feinstein\u2019s Assault Weapons Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like U.S. Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17481\/feinstein-to-cruz-on-guns-%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99m-not-a-sixth-grader%E2%80%9D\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) isn\u2019t the only member of the upper chamber who has serious questions about the assault weapons ban being pushed by colleague Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/19\/us-usa-guns-senate-idUSBRE92I11G20130319 \" target=\"_blank\">fifteen Senate Democrats<\/a> have told Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) they won\u2019t vote for Feinstein\u2019s ban if it comes up for a vote, according to Reuters. With 55 members in the Democratic caucus, that means that at least 11 Republicans would have to cross party lines to pass the bill with a simple majority of 51. In other words, Di-Fi\u2019s dream is over.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein\u2019s defeat exposes a very real fault line among Senate Democrats. In 2014, the party must defend 20 of the 33 seats up for election, with five seats held by Democrats from pro-gun states: Louisiana\u2019s Mary Landrieu, Arkansas\u2019 Mark Pryor, Alaska\u2019s Mark Begich, Montana\u2019s Max Baucus, and South Dakota\u2019s Tim Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>And these are just the folks running for reelection <em>this<\/em> year. Using Reid\u2019s number, there are at least ten more Senate Democrats unwilling to tie their electoral future to a gun ban that will most likely kill their political career down the road.<\/p>\n<p>The ban is over (for now). Good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) isn\u2019t the only member of the upper chamber who has serious questions about the assault weapons ban being pushed by colleague Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). At least fifteen Senate Democrats have told Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) they won\u2019t vote for Feinstein\u2019s ban if it comes up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,4072,4071,3720,3606,3160,2890,178],"class_list":["post-17498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-assault","tag-ban","tag-control","tag-dianne-feinstein","tag-gun","tag-ted-cruz","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17502,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17498\/revisions\/17502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}