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Senate takes symbolic shot at Trump tariffs
the Hill ^ | 11/07/18 | JORDAIN CARNEY

Posted on 07/12/2018 12:17:43 AM PDT by granada

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1 posted on 07/12/2018 12:17:44 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada

The opposite of Trade War is Trade Surrender.

Trump is on one side.

The globalists of Congress are on the other.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 12:22:14 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: granada

Didn’t the Emperor Caligula put his horse in the Senate? I’m beginning to understand that move.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 12:24:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: granada

They don’t want their gravy train to stop running.


4 posted on 07/12/2018 12:55:45 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Architect of Avalon

Absolutely right.

We are now running an unacceptably high $375,000,000,000 billion trade deficit with China. Just from last year.

Largest in the history of the entire world. It has been growing, virtually every year for the entire last generation. RAPIDLY.

It is now at an all-time high. And headed EVEN HIGHER this year.

Yet the GOP is complaining?

About what?

Retards.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 1:30:10 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: jospehm20

Does cause one to believe the majority of senators are taking bribes / kickbacks. More investigation of the 88 is necessary


6 posted on 07/12/2018 1:33:09 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: no-to-illegals

Here’s the thing. It’s a three-line story that CNN will talk about for three days, getting each of the 88 to speak in front of a camera.

Public appeal? It’ll be read over once by the general public, and it’ll be dropped. You can test your associates in seven days, and half of them might remember part of the three-lines, but within seven days...it’ll disappear entirely from the news media. That’s the marginal value of what they did.

You can go and ask each of the 88...do you get lobbyist money that comes from beyond the shores of the US? Yes, or no. I’ll bet each of the 88 do.


7 posted on 07/12/2018 1:43:48 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: granada

The good news? Soon Flake and Corker will be gone.


8 posted on 07/12/2018 1:50:39 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: pepsionice

Total agreement


9 posted on 07/12/2018 1:56:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: granada; Fred Nerks

The turtle is pished that his family business , pursued by his Chinese wife’s family, is going South.

You gotta laugh at the shock and awe that the turtle is now under because he has been complicit in lining his pockets with the “China Trade” sell out of America.

Time to end the Egg Foo Yung and examine the Who Flung Dung!

PDJT is turning into one marvelous ba4tard as he unleashes highly targeted policy on both China and those who have sold America down the dragon well with intellectual property theft.


10 posted on 07/12/2018 2:07:03 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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language “providing a role for Congress” on tariffs

Congress played its "role"...56 years ago...by giving the President the power to impose tariffs. Sorry Flakey!

"Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, gives the executive branch the ability to conduct investigations to “determine the effects on the national security of imports.” Within 270 days of initiating any investigation, the Commerce Department issues a report to the President with the investigation’s findings, including whether certain imports threaten to impair America’s national security. The President has 90 days to determine whether he concurs with the findings and, if so, to use his statutory authority under Section 232 “to adjust the imports” as necessary, including through tariffs or quotas."

11 posted on 07/12/2018 2:11:05 AM PDT by montag813
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(World Tariff Profiles)

I seriously doubt that more than a handful of our elected really understand trade & tariffs.

By the way "Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) — who was opposing Trump's appeals court judges over the tariff fight — added that Congress has "to rein in abuse of presidential authority and restore Congress’ constitutional authority in this regard.”

Flake had no problem with Obama's presidential abuses of our Constitution or Obama's presidential abuses period....Flake is a poster boy of what is wrong with most of our elected.

12 posted on 07/12/2018 2:46:35 AM PDT by yoe (A VOTE FOR THE LEFT IS A VOTE AGAINST THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.)
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Don’t get me started on Flakey. All these people that voted yes are chicken$hit bastards. It’s kind of like if you took your spoiled kids to a big negotiating deal and you’re just able to get the person or company to agree to your argument, the brats want ice cream.


13 posted on 07/12/2018 3:58:42 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: granada

It appears that those senators failed to learn the lesson recently learned by politicos more concerned with the Executive. Imagine a Senate that looks like Obama (or worse), and think again. They trash the U.S.A., then the U.S.A. will vote against those who betray us to commie nations.


14 posted on 07/12/2018 4:43:11 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: granada

Symbolic shot = not a shot.

Stay in your lane, peons.


15 posted on 07/12/2018 4:49:53 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: granada

Each of us should find the vote of our senators there. Those who voted in favor of that threat of obstructing our President for their friends in enemy nations should be replaced with Rastafarians, candidates resembling Peewee Herman or whatever, until Trump-like candidates are found to replace them.

;-)


16 posted on 07/12/2018 4:50:04 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: granada

Anyone on Free Republic defending these traitors needs to be zotted.


17 posted on 07/12/2018 4:53:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: granada

Here they are.

“Perdue was one of 11 Republican senators who voted no. GOP Sens. John Barrasso (Wyo.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Dean Heller (Nev.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), James Inhofe (Okla.), Jim Risch (Idaho) and Tim Scott (S.C.) also voted no.”

Those are the good ones. On second thought, replace each of them with new, pro-Trump, pro-American senators. We want to keep Trump in office, and anything is doable.


18 posted on 07/12/2018 4:55:10 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SoFloFreeper

I watched that weasel Corker being interviewed

on CNN yesterday.Was sitting in a chair with two needles

in my arm at Red Cross.I had forgot how nasty CNN and Corker

are.


19 posted on 07/12/2018 4:57:58 AM PDT by Harold Shea (VN vet)
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To: granada

Okay...I just emailed my Senator...


20 posted on 07/12/2018 5:33:37 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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