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Journal by DeathMonkey
Well the good news is that most congresscritters do, and Trump's fake-ass emergency was rejected.
41 Republican Senators and 182 Republican House Representatives, on the other hand, just proved how completely full of crap they are.
Remember when executive overreach was a thing?
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"I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'"
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:19PM (13 children)
All we have to do is convince 40 of those "strict constitutionalists" in the house that congress controls the budget.
And then, convince 6 senators that are opposed to executive action on immigration to disallow executive action on immigration.
And we might just overturn that veto!
(estimated numbers, I'm not sure what the actual totals are, someone ask Pelosi)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:27PM (5 children)
I absolutely agree that the purse strings belong in congress. And this is what happens when you give the executive more power while your guy is in. You'd think one of these times someone would remember that the other side is going to get any power they give their own in a few years. Nah, never happen.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 14 2019, @10:54PM (3 children)
Well I'll give Republican Sen. Mike Lee some props.
I'm sure he's an asshole about pretty much everything else but I was pulling apoplectic Republican quotes about Emperor Obama and his was in the list.
He's one of the 12 Rs who voted against Trump. So there.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 15 2019, @12:42AM (2 children)
I won't. I try to never assume a congressman will vote their conscience on anything, ever. I'm quite sure he was either getting compensated in some way for this or didn't want to lose a perfectly good rallying cry by actually accomplishing something from the perspective of his voters.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday March 15 2019, @01:51AM (1 child)
I try to never assume a congressman will vote their conscience on anything, ever.
They might give it a shot in their first term, of course it all goes out the window when they suffer the consequences. Voters don't care, so this what we get. To bad everybody's still playing this republican/democrat bullshit.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 15 2019, @04:05AM
It's like highschool football in the middle of the country. You yell at the ref even when you just watched your neighbor's kid take his helmet off and smash someone in the knee with it. Tribalism at its most simplistic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @12:16AM
One of the biggest problems with having your head up your own or someone else's ass is that you cannot see that far ahead.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 15 2019, @02:59AM (6 children)
Search for Bill Clinton and "crisis at the border".
George Bush and "crisis at the border".
Obama and "crisis at the border".
Trump says "crisis at the border", and the CTRL-Left goes insane.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 15 2019, @04:07AM (2 children)
Trump says "Good morning," and the ctrl-left goes insane. Think of all the time they save by getting pissed off without having to think though. It could usher in the next great national productivity increase.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 15 2019, @07:30PM (1 child)
Trump says " I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad,” and the Alt Right goes out and murders 49 people.
I think I prefer the mean words to the 49 dead people.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 16 2019, @01:32AM
Anyone who dislikes Islam is alt-right? Because there's like zero viable evidence on this guy's politics aside from that. His manifesto is either an enormous troll (denounces conservatism, calls himself an ecofascist, and says Candice Owens inspires him) or the dude was too mentally ill for a normal human to even relate to what goes on inside his head.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 15 2019, @02:44PM
Oh you hypocrites!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/three-presidents-one-border--and-an-immigration-debate-that-has-grown-coarser/2019/01/08/d9f3c4a4-1357-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ff792dbe6151 [washingtonpost.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzlviQH4FhQ [youtube.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 15 2019, @06:26PM (1 child)
We're not mad at anyone saying there's a humanitarian crisis at the border because that is a factual statement.
We're mad that Trump officially declared a MILITARY EMERGENCY at the border, which is a lie.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 15 2019, @06:35PM
Crisis. Check.
Border. Check.
Military. Check.
Commander in Chief taking action. Check.
Alles en ordnung.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.