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03-14-2019 , 04:58 PM
Does the Senate have the option for another vote to over-ride Trump's veto, or not?
03-14-2019 , 05:05 PM
Yes, but I think they would only vote on it if the House overrides the veto first.

Need 2/3rds majority in House and Senate to override, so not gonna happen.
03-14-2019 , 05:06 PM
They do but they're at least 8 votes short.
03-14-2019 , 05:15 PM
I'm just glad it took this long for Trump to figure out he can just do whatever he wants anyway.
03-14-2019 , 05:23 PM
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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.
There is a good chance that he passes some kind of order restricting ammunition sales in the state as well during his term which would be a huge shot across the bow and earn major props.
03-14-2019 , 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
Looks like "the democrats might use this power for good" carried the day.
Link fot this, finding little online. Might be dumb
03-14-2019 , 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ReasonableGuy
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



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



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
It really is a shame Inslee isnt more well known. He would have my vote for his 2020 run if he had a glimmer of a shot.
03-14-2019 , 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by SirOsis
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.
IIRC Cummings had a heart attack a few years ago and, while in the hospital recuperating, vowed that if/when he came back to Congress he would not hold back on acting on his views.
03-14-2019 , 07:23 PM
So the House passed a resolution 420-0 that the Mueller report should be made public when it's finished. Lindsey Graham unilaterally blocked it from a vote in the Senate because it doesn't say anything about investigating how the DOJ went easy on Hillary. What a sycophant.
03-14-2019 , 07:25 PM
Twitter is actually protecting us from his most insane rambling.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1...888119296?s=19
03-14-2019 , 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by cuserounder
So the House passed a resolution 420-0 that the Mueller report should be made public when it's finished. Lindsey Graham unilaterally blocked it from a vote in the Senate because it doesn't say anything about investigating how the DOJ went easy on Hillary. What a sycophant.
And why is that Lindsay Graham's call?
03-14-2019 , 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
And why is that Lindsay Graham's call?
Apparently he gets to top from the bottom in the Senate too
03-14-2019 , 07:38 PM
As if Mitch was ever letting that go to a vote.
03-14-2019 , 07:55 PM
So one senator could have just stood up and said "I block the UIGEA from going to a vote!" and we all still have something to do on Saturday night?
03-14-2019 , 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
So one senator could have just stood up and said "I block the UIGEA from going to a vote!" and we all still have something to do on Saturday night?
If that one senator is Maj leader, yes.
03-14-2019 , 08:13 PM
I thought Turtle was majority leader.
03-14-2019 , 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I thought Turtle was majority leader.
Sorry, I misread the thread. I think committee chairmen can block bills from coming out of their committee. Although the UIGEA that ultimately passed wasn't given to the Senate via a committee. It came via conference, in which the House and Senate leadership get together and come up with a compromise version of a bill they both passed but with key differences. That goes directly to the floor rather than to committee again.

Last edited by MrWookie; 03-14-2019 at 08:25 PM.
03-14-2019 , 08:26 PM
Schumer asked for unanimous consent to pass the motion; Graham denied that request. It only takes one guy to object to unanimous consent, obviously. Schumer said he would bring the motion back at a later date. Probably they have more pressing things to do than hold a debate on it.
03-14-2019 , 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by GMan42
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.
It said increasing to 13 billion, not an increase of 13 billion
03-14-2019 , 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by True North
I’m less worried about Trump not handing over power at all than I am about there being no one willing or able to hand over departments and files or explain how things work to the new team.

The current teams already never showed up to the meetings on this so no one in these departments currently have a clue. The new individuals will have to ask the Obama people to remember from 4 years prior
03-14-2019 , 08:38 PM
03-14-2019 , 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
And why is that Lindsay Graham's call?
Because Schumer brought it up by asking for unanimous consent.

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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Trump will hand over power. He'll just completely trash all faith in our elections as he's doing it, and set the stage for a right-wing demagogue to seize power for good later on.

Come on death for me before that happens. One time baby.
I think when he trashes all faith in our elections he may, intentionally or inadvertently, trigger violent unrest. His supporters are going to believe the election was stolen from them, and his supporters include neo-Nazis, nut jobs with 17 guns, Bikers for Trump, etc, etc...

What happens if his rhetoric triggers another MAGA-bomber whose bombs go off? Or instead of driving a car into a crowd, what if a neo-Nazi takes a few AR-15's and shoots up the Democratic side of a state legislature of a state Trump says stole the election from him? Then Trump says something like, "I warned you it would be very bad if you stole an election from me..." and away we go.

I mean, ****, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see neo-Nazis with guns or Bikers for Trump looking all tough hanging out around polling places in 2020. In fact, I'd be surprised if this does NOT happen somewhere. They already had the big ICE/CBP/whatever demonstrations in El Paso during the midterms.

We don't live in a totally free, fair, safe democracy that has free, fair elections without any intimidation anymore.
03-14-2019 , 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by cuserounder
Because Schumer brought it up by asking for unanimous consent.



I think when he trashes all faith in our elections he may, intentionally or inadvertently, trigger violent unrest. His supporters are going to believe the election was stolen from them, and his supporters include neo-Nazis, nut jobs with 17 guns, Bikers for Trump, etc, etc...

What happens if his rhetoric triggers another MAGA-bomber whose bombs go off? Or instead of driving a car into a crowd, what if a neo-Nazi takes a few AR-15's and shoots up the Democratic side of a state legislature of a state Trump says stole the election from him? Then Trump says something like, "I warned you it would be very bad if you stole an election from me..." and away we go.

I mean, ****, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see neo-Nazis with guns or Bikers for Trump looking all tough hanging out around polling places in 2020. In fact, I'd be surprised if this does NOT happen somewhere. They already had the big ICE/CBP/whatever demonstrations in El Paso during the midterms.

We don't live in a totally free, fair, safe democracy that has free, fair elections without any intimidation anymore.
anymore? we never have cuse.
03-14-2019 , 09:26 PM
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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?

Trump is nothing without his enablers and I just don't see there being any institutional support for craziness like that.
I don't think there would be enough support either so I agree with your overall point, but the answer to the bolded is obviously "yes".
03-14-2019 , 09:46 PM
Before deciding to ground Boeing 737s, Trump privately said they ‘sucked’

The quiet shade in this article is great

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In his words, it “sucked.”

The president said Boeing 737s paled in comparison to the Boeing 757, known as Trump Force One, which he owns as a personal jet, according to White House and transportation officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He questioned why Boeing would keep building the model and opined that he never would have bought a 737 for the Trump Shuttle, the small airline he briefly ran three decades ago that relied on 727s before going bankrupt, the officials said.
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Trump, who claims to have personally renegotiated Boeing’s contract to build Air Force One, relinquished his failed Trump Shuttle between Boston, New York and Washington in 1991 after never making a profit. His criticism of the 737 — the best-selling jetliner model in history — came just weeks after he attended an event in Hanoi celebrating Vietnam’s purchase of 100 of the Boeing jets.
As for the actual grounding decision: ground them, or don't, does it really matter?

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Trump added to the confusion Wednesday by suggesting that the decision to ground the plane was “psychologically” important but was neither urgent nor conclusive.

“We didn’t have to make this decision today. We could have delayed it,” he said Wednesday. “We maybe didn’t have to make it at all. But I felt it was important both psychologically and in a lot of other ways.”

      
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