While some would try to argue that the importance about the 2nd amendment is nothing more than talking about guns, the issue of an even more important freedom, that of the right to free expression, as blanketed by the 1st amendment is finding a not so pleasant taste in some Senate Democrats in DC, who wanted to fast track a NEW amendment to the Constitution, giving Government greater ability to regulate and restrict what people could say using their 1st amendment right.
It gets even more humerous. Apparently, the effort by Senate Democrats was to bring this amendment up for a vote, with the expectation of the GOP to filibuster the effort....that way they could march out to the microphones with preplanned talking points, along the lines of These Republicans are obstructing votes in order to protect millionaires and billionaires, like the Koch's, who are poisoning our politics with filthy outside money!
So what DID the GOP do? Well, enough Republicans said, sure, let's open it up to debate. So instead of filibusting, the GOP called Reid's bluff to open the topic up for the whole Senate. NOW the Democrats are whining that they have to debate on a topic, as important as the 1st amendment, taking away prescious podium time that they'd be using to lament minimum wage and income disparity
Priceless
