Showing posts with label End Runs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label End Runs. Show all posts
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Republicans are doing an end-run around the Senate parliamentarian to make novel use of the current policy baseline instead of current law, asserting a Democrat precedent from 2022

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 Senate GOP declines to meet with parliamentarian on whether Trump tax cuts add to deficit ... Republicans, however, say that the parliamen...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Impeach him a hundred times if we have to: Trump lies that jury trials are needed for immigration cases

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  Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know': Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” th...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Fareed Zakaria: Trump uses an unprecedented eight national emergency declarations for his own end run around the constitution, the Congress, and the courts

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 ... Trump has declared eight national emergencies in his first 100 days, more than any other president. ... Invoking an emergency has come ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

US Chamber of Commerce intends to sue Democrat-controlled FTC for passing rule 3-2 banning noncompete agreements

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Congress has not given the agency explicit authority to ban noncompetes . ... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest pro-business lobbyin...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Four true words

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 Trump lacked the discipline.        Stated here . That's still the fundamental problem, but that's been the case from the beginning...
Friday, June 17, 2022

What rot from AP Obama: "Watergate and Jan. 6 are rooted in the same ancient thirst for power at any cost"

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 "Two presidents tried an end run around democracy." Give me a break. Presidents are term-limited by the constitution. Even if by ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

The National Popular Vote Compact, an end run around the US Constitution which also creates faithless electors, is actually supported in Michigan by stupid Republicans and a Hillsdale college instructor

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My lunatic former state senator, Dave Hildenbrand, was the chief Republican sponsor of the compact in 2018. He's a lobbyist now. The for...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does end run around Biden's rationing of monoclonal antibody drugs, buys direct from UK

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 Now why would DeSantis do that if it isn't true that Biden cut off Floridians dying from C19? Florida ranks 4th for total announced dea...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

National Popular Vote to become law in Nevada, making it 15 states and DC trying for an end run around the Electoral College

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Nevada passes National Popular Vote bill in bid to upend Electoral College : The compact would take effect after states totaling 270 el...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Rush Limbaugh claims to be the cutting edge of societal evolution, but can't help a caller from Colorado on the National Popular Vote

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It's a frickin' end run around the constitution, but Limbaugh just yammers "I'll have to look into it". Pathetic....
Sunday, November 4, 2018

My no good dirty hippy Michigan Republican Party is libertarian, not conservative

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The robocalls from the Michigan Republican Party are going out this weekend, urging the voters to vote against liberal proposals to "r...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Good news: Trump does end run around Obamacare, expands ability of more associations to offer plans using Executive Order

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From the story here : The president signed an executive order "to promote healthcare choice and competition" Thursday mornin...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

If Trump wants to win on Obamacare, he should propose a Medicaid tax in exchange for repeal

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If Trump wants to win on Obamacare, he should propose a Medicaid tax in exchange for repeal of Obamacare's individual and corporate ma...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

In 2012 Obama called gasoline at $2.50 a phony promise, three years later it's $1.77

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The promise of $2.50 a gallon gasoline was made by presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in 2012, which...
Monday, August 2, 2010

A Rival Electoral College

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As we pointed out previously , the National Popular Vote Campaign is an extra-constitutional end run around the constitution's designate...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED END RUN AROUND THE CONSTITUTION

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People who think one state, Florida, jammed an unwanted president down the throats of the American people in the year 2000 now want to make ...