Showing posts with label lame duck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lame duck. Show all posts
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Then most Federalist Society folks are kooky: Senators and Representatives and Judges keep chairs warm for decades while POTUS becomes a lame duck immediately upon re-election

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We live under the spendthrift tyranny of the legislative feared by Madison, with its access to the pockets of the people, augmented by a ...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Lame Duck House passes $5 billion border wall funding attached to spending bill 217-185

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House passes spending bill with border wall money — setting up shutdown stalemate with Senate: During a televised Oval Office fracas last...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Stupid caller Michelle to Chris Plante still thinks Republicans retiring caused loss of the US House, to punish Trump supporters

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There were fewer than ten seats retired by Republicans which flipped to the Democrats. Politics is the art of the possible, not the art...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

One term president is down to $5 billion for part of a wall: Lame Duck Republicans kick shutdown can from tomorrow to Dec. 21

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House passes bill to delay government shutdown and border wall fight for two weeks : It would give lawmakers more time to hash out an ...
Friday, November 23, 2018

If only Democrats realized that the easiest and cheapest way to get rid of Donald Trump is to give him his damn Wall

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What's he going to run on after that, huh? In the lame duck Pelosi in the House and Schumer in the Senate could allow just enough Dem...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Ted Cruz blows it again, big time: stalled appointments to make it through lame duck

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From the Washington Post story here : "As Democrats and a bloc of conservative Republicans jousted on parliamentary disputes on a...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Neal Gabler Can't Face It That Democrats Have Betrayed Social Security

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Here , for Reuters: "There is no gainsaying that the basic purpose of the [Ryan] budget is to dismantle New Deal and Great Society prog...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The 20th Amendment isn't Working

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David Fahrenthold here  for The Washington Post provides a nice summary of the history of the 20th amendment, ratified in 1933, which was su...