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R.I.P. to the many procedural efforts to stop Donald Trump
Washington Post ^ | Jan. 6, 2017 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 01/07/2017 8:47:12 PM PST by Innovative

Donald Trump is now the real, official, actual, no-more-doubt-about-it president-elect of the United States, after Congress certified the results of the electoral college Friday.

Not for lack of Democrats' efforts, mind you. House Democrats objected to 10 states' electoral votes being awarded to Trump, but none of them were able to get a senator to join in their objection, as required. Hence, a quixotic effort failed.

Again.

All along Trump's path to the White House, nearly every political process has featured some kind of effort to thwart him by manipulating the rules and otherwise Doing Whatever It Took to stop him. With the last of those efforts failing, we thought it worth a retrospective. Get ready for a trip down memory lane.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; election; peotustrump; trump; trumptransition
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The Dems tried everything to stop Trump, but they failed!

This is great for the country and the Amerucan people.

Let's "make America great again"

Hope the Dems will also fail in trying to stop Trump's agenda.

1 posted on 01/07/2017 8:47:13 PM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

They’re already saying he should be impeached for stuff they say he will do.


2 posted on 01/07/2017 8:50:12 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Innovative

Wa, wa, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Imagine how frustrated the Left is right now.

Next they’re going to have to find someone to blame.

Obama? Hillary? One of you is going to get the lion’s share of this blame.


3 posted on 01/07/2017 8:50:48 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: Innovative
Donald Trump is now the real, official, actual, no-more-doubt-about-it president-elect of the United States

He's been that way since about midnight on election night.

4 posted on 01/07/2017 8:53:40 PM PST by SSS Two
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To: Hugin

In retrospect,

Best ELECTION EVER!


5 posted on 01/07/2017 8:54:10 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Innovative

Wrong attitude. Burn the Left to the ground and salt their hovels.

It’s what they were expecting to do to us until karma caught up with them.


6 posted on 01/07/2017 8:54:20 PM PST by txhurl (Break's over, kids, back to WAR.)
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To: Innovative

I assume they are not done. I expect they will call on the chief justice to refuse to swear Trump in.


7 posted on 01/07/2017 8:54:32 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Innovative

Kudos to the Senate.


8 posted on 01/07/2017 8:56:15 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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The democrats in Congress have proven to the American people through all these actions just how much they disdain the Constitution and the country as a whole...They have proven that their only concern is their own cushy position in DC...


9 posted on 01/07/2017 8:56:57 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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I hope beyond hope that many, many blue collar democrats are embarrassed by the actions of liberal elitist democrats that have tried to pull all BS against a duly elected president...


10 posted on 01/07/2017 9:00:06 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Innovative
But wait!

If only 38 states call for a flash Constitutional Convention before January 20th, Evan McMullin could be installed as President!

"Donald Trump provides the unique opportunity, er, threat, which allows, er, requires us to repeal the Republic and rule by fiat", said the sponsor of the new effort, John Q. Fascist.

Under the plan, the new Constitution would be ratified by conference call.

"It could be done", said some loser nobody has ever heard of.

"Highly unlikely, but interesting", said a well-connected Washington type, under condition of anonymity.

/sarcasm

11 posted on 01/07/2017 9:06:19 PM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Innovative

The article missed Mitt’s speech trashing Trump, Bill Kristol’s “magic candidate” which never materialized and the failed coup attempt where locker room banter would surely make Trump retreat in disgrace handing over the candidacy to Mike Pence.

I look back now in utter amazement


12 posted on 01/07/2017 9:09:57 PM PST by Eddie01 (Tagline Removed by Moderator)
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To: Innovative

I am amazed that I am reading this from the Washington Post. Perhaps I am drunk and only imaging this. However, I went back and read the article again. They really did say it. I think?

Perhaps I need to increase my meds! /S


13 posted on 01/07/2017 9:12:41 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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Re : Post #4 *He's been that way since about midnight on election night.* Correction : He's been that way since he announced his Candidacy for POTUS!
14 posted on 01/07/2017 9:13:35 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Innovative

Not so fast. Obama still has almost 2 weeks to start a war with Russia and declare martial law.


15 posted on 01/07/2017 9:20:10 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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The Dems tried everything to stop Trump, but they failed!

Should never have even tried. Very bad mistake.

16 posted on 01/07/2017 9:21:37 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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It’s what they were expecting to do to us until karma caught up with them.

In my lifetime, they have literally tried several times. God keeps rescuing us.

17 posted on 01/07/2017 9:22:47 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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>> House Democrats objected to 10 states' electoral votes being awarded to Trump

The Democrat Thug Party
18 posted on 01/07/2017 9:27:10 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Innovative

Ok, tin foil hat time. The left has prepped all of those FEMA camps, and they won’t want those to go to waste. So, what if they do their best (worst) and use the internal gov forces to try to stop Trump on or before Inauguration Day? The right, of course, will not let that stand, and the left will not allow the right to prevail, hence the convenient usage of the FEMA camps.

Hopefully this is only the premise of a good fiction novel...


19 posted on 01/07/2017 9:27:52 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Innovative

Actually, a realistic, worthwhile analysis story by the Compost. I am surprised.


20 posted on 01/07/2017 9:27:59 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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