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Democratic lawmakers are boycotting Trump’s inauguration
Yahoo! News ^ | 2017-01-14 | Liz Goodwin

Posted on 01/14/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

About a dozen Democratic lawmakers have announced their intention to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration next week as a protest of the president-elect’s plans for the country. The boycotters make up a small fraction of the 535 House and Senate members, but their decision to protest represents a break with tradition that they say is warranted by Trump’s agenda, which they see as extreme.

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., told Yahoo News she decided she couldn’t celebrate Trump’s inauguration because of his comments during the campaign about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country and his vow to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I thought about it over and over again — it’s not a decision I came to lightly,” she said Thursday. “I thought about it very carefully because I do believe in democracy and this peaceful transfer of power.”

Lee was among a growing handful of Democratic lawmakers who objected last week to the certification of the Electoral College results on the House floor. She said she objected because of her concerns over Russian interference in the election.

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1 posted on 01/14/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hooray, these bicoastal D twits will be far away from the festivities. More room for the rest of us.


2 posted on 01/14/2017 1:15:31 PM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pathetic. Cue the sad accordion music.


3 posted on 01/14/2017 1:16:22 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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4 posted on 01/14/2017 1:16:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I just read that the RATs couldn’t get tickets.

So now it’s a boycott...


5 posted on 01/14/2017 1:17:44 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have had enough of this nonsense from the globalists. We stood by and acted civilized for eight years while their candidate who wasn’t even born in America occupied the White House. Thank you, Sheriff Joe, for your December 2016 announcement of the independent international forensic experts verifying the forgery of the birth certificate. Apparently some teen fan fiction about Russian prostitutes is more important for the MSM to cover.


6 posted on 01/14/2017 1:18:36 PM PST by Elvina (crimethink - To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc.)
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A very SICK political party indeed. The party of perversion and abortion.


7 posted on 01/14/2017 1:20:16 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Phuck’em, who wants them around anyhow?


8 posted on 01/14/2017 1:20:37 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Buh-bye, Commie pigs.


9 posted on 01/14/2017 1:20:56 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Silence, you ninnies!


10 posted on 01/14/2017 1:22:26 PM PST by windsorknot
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Paging the Boo Hoo girl


11 posted on 01/14/2017 1:23:35 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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The needle on the matter is moving way too much

Who really cares who attends besides Trump and Pence

Idiotic grand standing and people are sick of this nonsense.


12 posted on 01/14/2017 1:23:56 PM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How can we go on without them? Anyway, they’re not really concerned about “Russian interference”, the wall, or any other of their fake issues. They won’t say what they’re really opposed to, because then we’d know them for who they are.


13 posted on 01/14/2017 1:24:37 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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They are boycotting his inauguration, but in the very next breath, they are complaining they cannot get tickets.

That way they get to hate on Donald no matter WHAT happens.

"I hate the food at that restaurant, and the portions are SO SMALL!"

14 posted on 01/14/2017 1:24:51 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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Awwww...that’s too bad.
Perhaps the House/Senate majorities will “boycott” them as well.
Well, Good Bye, Rats....don’t let the door hit you in your brain, er I mean, azz.


15 posted on 01/14/2017 1:28:52 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Many people have very little class, these Dems have no class at all.


16 posted on 01/14/2017 1:29:56 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Ah! You’ve just named Bill O’Reiilys next book:

“Killing Megyn Kellys Ratings”


17 posted on 01/14/2017 1:31:16 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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He shoots - He scores!

WIN!


18 posted on 01/14/2017 1:32:32 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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How ashamed the ghettos from which they spring should be at these Leftist dummies. But no, they will be reelected until they croak because their only requirement is to take money from working people and give it to the loafers.
You don’t have to be smart to do that, thus fulfilling crooked LBJ’s prediction that his redistributionist “War on Poverty “would buy the n****r vote for 200 years.” So far we’ve spent over $17 Trillion on that war, and there are more “poor” sucking at the government teat than ever.


19 posted on 01/14/2017 1:39:51 PM PST by txrefugee
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They say that like it is a bad thing.
20 posted on 01/14/2017 1:40:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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