Actually, reconciliation can only be used for budgetary items, as it is specific to reconciling appropriations bills between the House and Senate versions of the bill. It could be used to defund bits of the Affordable Care Act, but the regulatory terms would remain unless repealed by an Act of Congress.
The only reason that is so, is because those states are already "in the bag" for one candidate or the other. Demonstrate some diversity of thought, and you definitely won't be ignored.
What politician would ignore California if it's actually in play? It's a quarter of the votes you need to win.
I am absolutely not looking for scapegoats outside the GOP. They are clearly the most to blame for us giving this guy the nomination. However, their nominating process at least seems to reflect the will of the voters, unlike the DNC's thinly veiled process of having a meeting of a committee and coming up with a name, and then making it happen through underhanded activity and leaning on "super delegates" that make up a ridiculous percentage of the convention delegates.
And the Republicans were hardly the first to use cloture and the filibuster to clog things up. It's been a thing since 1917. Stop pretending it's just "the other guys" that are the problem.
Sorry, your fucking texts and updates from the Book of Faces isn't necessary for you to see immediately while driving, and absolutely doesn't belong in the set of functions called "relatively distraction free." Especially if you're fucking about with a phone to see it, while either holding it up, or worrying about it falling out of the cheap shit window mount that constantly falls off because you didn't bother cleaning the windshield before sticking the suction cup on.
How about you reserve your bile spitting attitude until the guy actually has a chance to enact something you disagree with? Closed-minded much? You just tacitly admitted that you have no idea what policies or agendas will be enacted, and you're already responding with profanity and name calling.
Good thing that any General that can actually pass that order down the chain of command to fire has sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, not the President. In fact, every single serving member in the US Armed Forces has taken that same oath.
And the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Trump just deciding to light a Minuteman-III off at someone would constitute an illegal order, and very likely would not be followed. These Generals aren't drones you know - they take this shit seriously.
Character assassination is made easy when there's no actual character there, and when such assertions are actually backed up with written evidence from both her party's and her campaign's email leaks.
Trump was the only candidate that Hillary could have beat, and she didn't.
Hillary was the only candidate that Trump could have beat, due to the anti-Hillary vote. The DNC didn't count on that when they rigged their nominating process, and worked to get Trump nominated through underhanded shit and suggesting that tools everywhere vote for him in open primaries.
Now only if Trump was elected a Senator, then he could do fuckall about treaties.
The Executive has jack shit to do with ratified treaties, except being bound by the Constitution to enact and abide by them. He can piss and moan all he wants, but the buck stops in the Senate on that one.
Remember that the Democrats are the ones that removed the option to filibuster court nominees when they controlled the Senate. And replacing one conservative justice who died with another conservative justice isn't going to change a whole lot from what we've seen in the last few years.
Every single President has had to deal with a Congress that has their own ideas of how things should be, and have the extreme pleasure of being able to shit all over any President's agenda if they so choose. This is the way that the government was designed, and it's a pretty good design - the elected representatives of the people don't have to bend down to a single man (or woman).
Even the best Presidents of the past had to manage and negotiate with Congress. But they did it, and that's what made them good Presidents - they were able to actually get shit done.
Honest curiosity - why do you think it will be any different than it has been? Is this just racially flavored FUD, or your actual viewpoint?
We've had an African-American President for 8 years who has done fuck-all to heal any racial divide, and it feels like it's gotten worse. Maybe it's just more visible now? I honestly don't know. But I do know that very little has been done other than give speeches that nobody listens to.
I don't know how Trump being President will make things worse, other than that he's a buffoon who just says whatever occurs to him, no matter how insensitive and stupid it might be, which nobody will listen to as well. He won't be able to act on any of the insensitive and stupid shit he says without the Congress playing along, and there's little hope of that - the entire House is running again in two years and will have to run on how they vote, and the Senate will put the brakes on everything slightly to the right of middle through parliamentary procedure.
Don't forget that the DNC actively encouraged people to vote in the Republican primaries for Trump, because that's who they wanted to run against instead of a more moderate, experienced, and level headed candidate.
They got who they wanted, and they rigged their own primary to nominate their candidate; then they fucked the dog and lost the election through smugness and not paying attention to what the voters were actually telling since the early primaries.
They lost an election. The whole country will lose far more than that. Thanks, DNC. And I say this as a registered Republican, who did not vote for Trump.
The Affordable Care Act is likely done, if not substantially altered. The GOP Congress wants to do this already - how many times did they vote to repeal?
All that other shit you spewed is just FUD. I doubt it would even make it through the House, and it's DOA to cloture / filibuster in the Senate. Wouldn't ever make it to Trump's desk to be signed.
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You do know that double jeopardy only applies if there is an actual trial and verdict the first time around, right?
Maybe you should look it up.
Funny that the person that talks about thinking for yourself seems to think I voted for Hillary.
Hint: I didn't. You're a closed minded asshat.
Actually, reconciliation can only be used for budgetary items, as it is specific to reconciling appropriations bills between the House and Senate versions of the bill. It could be used to defund bits of the Affordable Care Act, but the regulatory terms would remain unless repealed by an Act of Congress.
It also prevents someone from sitting in California, Texas, New York, and Florida to run up the percentage and win, ignoring everyone else.
The only reason that is so, is because those states are already "in the bag" for one candidate or the other. Demonstrate some diversity of thought, and you definitely won't be ignored.
What politician would ignore California if it's actually in play? It's a quarter of the votes you need to win.
I am absolutely not looking for scapegoats outside the GOP. They are clearly the most to blame for us giving this guy the nomination. However, their nominating process at least seems to reflect the will of the voters, unlike the DNC's thinly veiled process of having a meeting of a committee and coming up with a name, and then making it happen through underhanded activity and leaning on "super delegates" that make up a ridiculous percentage of the convention delegates.
And the Republicans were hardly the first to use cloture and the filibuster to clog things up. It's been a thing since 1917. Stop pretending it's just "the other guys" that are the problem.
Well, I'm not a Trump supporter, so you've already started off wrong.
Both Hillary and Obama are saying to have an open mind. Give it a try sometime.
Sorry, your fucking texts and updates from the Book of Faces isn't necessary for you to see immediately while driving, and absolutely doesn't belong in the set of functions called "relatively distraction free." Especially if you're fucking about with a phone to see it, while either holding it up, or worrying about it falling out of the cheap shit window mount that constantly falls off because you didn't bother cleaning the windshield before sticking the suction cup on.
Score: +5, Irony
Posting about how proud you are as an anonymous coward. Truly epic.
Oh, how clever. You called him "Dump".
That's certainly helping the situation.
How about you reserve your bile spitting attitude until the guy actually has a chance to enact something you disagree with? Closed-minded much? You just tacitly admitted that you have no idea what policies or agendas will be enacted, and you're already responding with profanity and name calling.
How "progressive."
$18T that was lawfully appropriated by Congress. The President can ask, but the Congress signs the checks.
Good thing that any General that can actually pass that order down the chain of command to fire has sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, not the President. In fact, every single serving member in the US Armed Forces has taken that same oath.
And the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Trump just deciding to light a Minuteman-III off at someone would constitute an illegal order, and very likely would not be followed. These Generals aren't drones you know - they take this shit seriously.
Character assassination is made easy when there's no actual character there, and when such assertions are actually backed up with written evidence from both her party's and her campaign's email leaks.
Trump was the only candidate that Hillary could have beat, and she didn't.
Hillary was the only candidate that Trump could have beat, due to the anti-Hillary vote. The DNC didn't count on that when they rigged their nominating process, and worked to get Trump nominated through underhanded shit and suggesting that tools everywhere vote for him in open primaries.
Trump, probably.
Hillary?
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Not even close.
Now only if Trump was elected a Senator, then he could do fuckall about treaties.
The Executive has jack shit to do with ratified treaties, except being bound by the Constitution to enact and abide by them. He can piss and moan all he wants, but the buck stops in the Senate on that one.
Yeah, they can't reverse shit without getting a few Democrats in the Senate to go along. Please look up 'cloture'.
You know, that thing that Democrats were crying about from 2010 until 2016? It's now their best friend.
Remember that the Democrats are the ones that removed the option to filibuster court nominees when they controlled the Senate. And replacing one conservative justice who died with another conservative justice isn't going to change a whole lot from what we've seen in the last few years.
Repealing Glass-Steagall, directly leading to the global financial meltdown in 2007?
This is hardly new.
Every single President has had to deal with a Congress that has their own ideas of how things should be, and have the extreme pleasure of being able to shit all over any President's agenda if they so choose. This is the way that the government was designed, and it's a pretty good design - the elected representatives of the people don't have to bend down to a single man (or woman).
Even the best Presidents of the past had to manage and negotiate with Congress. But they did it, and that's what made them good Presidents - they were able to actually get shit done.
Honest curiosity - why do you think it will be any different than it has been? Is this just racially flavored FUD, or your actual viewpoint?
We've had an African-American President for 8 years who has done fuck-all to heal any racial divide, and it feels like it's gotten worse. Maybe it's just more visible now? I honestly don't know. But I do know that very little has been done other than give speeches that nobody listens to.
I don't know how Trump being President will make things worse, other than that he's a buffoon who just says whatever occurs to him, no matter how insensitive and stupid it might be, which nobody will listen to as well. He won't be able to act on any of the insensitive and stupid shit he says without the Congress playing along, and there's little hope of that - the entire House is running again in two years and will have to run on how they vote, and the Senate will put the brakes on everything slightly to the right of middle through parliamentary procedure.
Just like when people are still whining that it's Bush's fault? Yeah, it still happens.
Don't forget that the DNC actively encouraged people to vote in the Republican primaries for Trump, because that's who they wanted to run against instead of a more moderate, experienced, and level headed candidate.
They got who they wanted, and they rigged their own primary to nominate their candidate; then they fucked the dog and lost the election through smugness and not paying attention to what the voters were actually telling since the early primaries.
They lost an election. The whole country will lose far more than that. Thanks, DNC. And I say this as a registered Republican, who did not vote for Trump.
The Affordable Care Act is likely done, if not substantially altered. The GOP Congress wants to do this already - how many times did they vote to repeal?
All that other shit you spewed is just FUD. I doubt it would even make it through the House, and it's DOA to cloture / filibuster in the Senate. Wouldn't ever make it to Trump's desk to be signed.