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03-14-2019 , 03:22 PM

#11426

synth_floyd

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I'm looking forward to President Elizabeth Warren's emergency declaration on health care. GGWP

03-14-2019 , 03:25 PM

#11427

microbet

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550000 people homeless on a given night in the US. That sounds like a national emergency.

03-14-2019 , 03:26 PM

#11428

epcfast

veteran

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,535

Someone should tell trump that veto isn't even italian, it's latin.
He'll get confused and refuse to use it.

03-14-2019 , 03:27 PM

#11429

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

59-41

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.13a2ef27ac7f

Thursday’s vote followed numerous failed efforts at compromise by vacillating GOP senators, including a dramatic incident Wednesday evening where a trio of GOP senators -- Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) — showed up nearly unannounced at the White House, interrupting Trump at dinner in a last-ditch effort to craft a compromise.

Their efforts failed, and Graham, Cruz and Sasse all ended up voting against the disapproval resolution.

“I said thank you for meeting with us. Sorry we ruined your dinner. And again, if it’d been me, I would have kicked us out after about five minutes,” Graham said later.

03-14-2019 , 03:30 PM

#11430

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

trump's eating mcdonalds in front of the tv and lindsay graham BURST into the room like, "sorry sir, but we really think, yep, yep you're right, you're right sir, yes. thank you. we'll leave now and vote with you. thanks. thanks again. thanks. thank you sir."

03-14-2019 , 03:33 PM

#11431

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Wait, Tillis didn't vote for this???

After the huge deal he made about how he would???

hahahahahahahahaha

03-14-2019 , 03:33 PM

#11432

microbet

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It's really surprising to me that tape hasn't come out of a Christian Bale kind of temper tantrum.

03-14-2019 , 03:34 PM

#11433

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Enjoy 2020, McSally, Tillis, and Gardner. Thanks for the gift!

03-14-2019 , 03:38 PM

#11434

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

550000 people homeless on a given night in the US. That sounds like a national emergency.

10 people snuck across the border, we have to build a wall! The beginning of the video shows them just tossing children over the existing wall but just ignore that and know the new wall being built will be unscalable!

03-14-2019 , 03:43 PM

#11435

realDonaldTrump

WITCH HUNT!

Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 2,921

( twitter | raw text )

03-14-2019 , 03:50 PM

#11436

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

Wait, Tillis didn't vote for this???

After the huge deal he made about how he would???

hahahahahahahahaha

Trump threatened to endorse a primary challenger so Tillis fell in line.

03-14-2019 , 03:57 PM

#11437

dth123451

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Ben Sasse never disappoints.

03-14-2019 , 04:02 PM

#11438

SirOsis

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Actually pissed I don't have access to C-Span. I wanted to see Wilbur Ross, that old Yoda of grifters, up there bumbling around, asserting rights that don't exist ("I refuse to answer, that's private"), probably has that white chunk of food that old people get on their lip. What a ****ty old, pathetically decrepit raisin person who is also a racist crook society leech who blatantly and illegally tried to make the census more racist.

03-14-2019 , 04:03 PM

#11439

Grue

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,667

Of all the R yesses only Collins is up in 2020

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: Harm to Ongoing Matter

03-14-2019 , 04:06 PM

#11440

ReasonableGuy

old hand

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,617

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

He's not commuting the sentences though. The article in the paper today says a new governor could proceed with these executions.

Still, this is a very bold move by him and it really only has political downsides. I'm sure people are firing up a recall effort right now. It could be that the balance is shifting and a referendum would turn against it, but Newsom is definitely leading here and not just following.

If When Newsom runs for President I won't forget this. It's not just about the DP. He has principles and he's acting on them.

This maybe should go in the "Who will run..." thread, but Jay Inslee did basically this in early 2014:
Executions Are Suspended by Governor in Washington

Quote:

Citing “problems that exist in our capital punishment system,” Mr. Inslee, a Democrat, said he would issue a reprieve in any death penalty case that crossed his desk, though he would not let any death row prisoners go free. A future governor could reverse this action, he noted, and order an execution to be carried out.

The Washington Supreme Court ended the death penalty in the state late last year:
Washington state ends ‘racially biased’ death penalty

Quote:

“The death penalty is unequally applied — sometimes by where the crime took place, or the county of residence, or the available budgetary resources at any given point in time, or the race of the defendant,” Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst wrote in the lead opinion.

Next step is for our legislature to get rid of the death penalty altogether. A bill has passed the state Senate, just need the state House, which has a comfortable Dem majority, to approve and it's done.
Washington Senate passes death penalty repeal bill

03-14-2019 , 04:06 PM

#11441

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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Tweeto!

03-14-2019 , 04:08 PM

#11442

Namath12

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CHEETO!

03-14-2019 , 04:18 PM

#11443

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ReasonableGuy

This maybe should go in the "Who will run..." thread, but Jay Inslee

Dunno much about Inslee, but he seems pretty cool.

03-14-2019 , 04:18 PM

#11444

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Grue

Of all the R yesses only Collins is up in 2020

Even she hasn't announced that she's running again.

03-14-2019 , 04:25 PM

#11445

zoltan

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Quote:

Originally Posted by synth_floyd

I'm skeptical of the whole "Trump will cling to power if he loses" story. How? Everything Trump has gotten away with is because of his Republican enablers. If he loses in 2020, are Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy going to support his claims of massive electoral fraud? Are federal police going to listen to Trump's orders to block the new president from moving in to the white house?

Yes. And Yes.

03-14-2019 , 04:30 PM

#11446

SirOsis

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I want Elijah Cummings to run all meetings I'm in. He is simply not accepting Ross' BS here at the end and is giving him deadlines to turn over information.

03-14-2019 , 04:32 PM

#11447

zoltan

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Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Tweeto!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Namath12

CHEETO!

Beto?

Last edited by zoltan; 03-14-2019 at 04:32 PM. Reason: too easy?

03-14-2019 , 04:41 PM

#11448

epcfast

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Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,535

Meto(o)?

03-14-2019 , 04:48 PM

#11449

GMan42

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 5,257

Quote:

Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JordanIB

600 jobs? Is that a typo? No comma?

Quote:

Originally Posted by kerowo

21 million a job, not to shabby...

Late on this, but if it's anything other than an automated factory and 600 IT jobs, 575 of which will be filled by H1Bs, I'd be shocked.

Plus all the numbers will be mysteriously divided by 10 by the time it happens anyway.