Are we doing ourselves any favors repeating this 90% number?

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105. It may or may not have been funny, but it was certainly accurate.

Anybody that suffers in the polls about that vote has plenty of time to mend fences with his or her constituents. As a Democrat I'm more concerned with Democratic politicians producing workable policy to reduce income disparity in this country, repair our social safety net, reform our educational system, and stop wasting time, money and political capital on stupid culture war feel good legislation that is produced and marketed like fucking tennis shoes.

It would help if Democrats would think about what they want from their elected representatives and treat their role as voting citizens as a responsibility instead of a queue in an automat. Of course that would involve actually understanding the issues surrounding their legislative objectives. Generally speaking bullshit litmus tests, McCarthyesque interrogations and defensive mewling about the evil machinations of the "evil NRA" only divide our constituency, makes us look like idiots, and gets us banished to the political wilderness.

So have you figured out how universal background checks are supposed to work yet?