Ilhan Omar has a female Muslim Republican opponent this fall: Dalia al-Aqidi

John McCain liked the moniker "maverick", which is how politicians dress up "asshole"

Oops, GAO charge that Trump OMB violated 1974 Impoundment Control Act is hogwash

But concerning the withholding of funds, there is no potential crime here either. There is a process in place to sort out any disagreement between Congress and the president on such a matter. Section 683 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 states that “whenever the President determines ... that such budget authority should be rescinded … [or] reserved from obligation for such fiscal year, the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” to that effect with an explanation. The Congress then has 45 calendar days to concur, or the funds are to be “made available for obligation” and “may not be proposed for rescission again.”

Although Section 684 calls for a special message if the funds are to be deferred within the fiscal year, this special message does not force Congress to concur.

The lack of a special message from Trump for either section is not an impeachable offense. First, the president clearly had not made a conclusive decision that he wanted to propose the funds should be “rescinded” or “reserved from obligation.” Neither Trump nor his Democratic critics disagree that he was awaiting further information before deciding whether or not he wanted the funds conclusively rescinded. All he had done as of this summer was to withhold the funds temporarily. Therefore, it would have been premature for Congress to receive a proposal from him to rescind the funds.

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August 2014: GAO report says Obama administration violated DoD Appropriations Act in Bergdahl prisoner swap, DoD also violated Antideficiency Act

Impeach the mofo.

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Six of the seven Democrat impeachment managers were all for impeachment before the so-called offense occurred

Good point, by the same guy who figured out who Neontaster is but decided to wait until the time was right before doxxing him

When Madcow isn't munching rugs she's hacking up hairballs

Nancy Pelosi suffers from Russia hysteria, shouldn't have the poop deck watch in the Bering Strait let alone be in line for the presidency

GAO report says Trump's OMB violated 1974 Impoundment Control Act by temporarily withholding Ukraine aid

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Wow, the timing, what a coincidence.

Tucker Carlson calls up the Virginia militias for January 20 rally in Richmond

The institutions are crumbling because the people are rotten

We have only ourselves to blame.

Breaking: Pelosi delayed the impeachment waiting on her commemorative embossed souvenir pen order bearing her signature

The choreography is so over the top for the somber occasion, too, designed doubtlessly to mock Trump.

Speaking of carving out new states of the union, Virginia looks set to divide again, over guns, giving us West Virginia, Virginia, and South Virginia

Maybe what's left of Virginia will call itself Northern Virginia, but probably not. Might remind people of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, minstrel shows in blackface, Gov. Ralph Northam, you know, that kind of thing.

I'm confused: How can the world be ending in 11 years when Obama stopped the rise of the oceans in 2008?

I mean, he just bought a house on an island, amirite?

The world's ending in 11 years and I'm not going to fill what little time I have left with Nancy Pelosi's phoney baloney plastic banana good time rock and rolla existentialist enhanced maracas

AOC is still pretending that she didn't say what she said a year ago, and that we now have only 11 years left, my God!

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UK Speaker John Bercashcow

OK fat

House fatso insults the Senate.

This will go well.

With the budget deficit topping $1 trillion again, Larry Kudlow promises a middle class tax cut proposal for later in the year

The American people are for two incompatible things, spending and tax cuts, and Trump is giving it to them, good and hard.

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Speaker Pelosi snubs Justin Amash for impeachment manager, names some unknown Democrats instead

• Pelosi names Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Hakeem Jeffries, Zoe Lofgren, Val Demings, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia to manage the House impeachment case against Trump.

I sure hope the job comes with a map so they can find the US Senate chambers, and a pocket copy of the constitution.

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