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AP Interview: McConnell rejects Trump's foreign aid cuts
Associated Press ^ | Mar 21, 2017 3:02 PM EDT | Erica Werner

Posted on 03/21/2017 5:01:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Yogafist
Is he willing to shut down the government to keep it?

Which "he" brainiac?

21 posted on 03/21/2017 5:18:47 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m proud to say that I voted against McConnell in the primary a couple of years ago. His opponent is not the Governor of Kentucky.


22 posted on 03/21/2017 5:19:30 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

It’s an “Art of the Deal” thing


23 posted on 03/21/2017 5:20:41 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Olog-hai
“America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department,” McConnell said.

So McConnell thinks America being a force is about handing US taxpayer dollars over to foreign governments?
24 posted on 03/21/2017 5:21:26 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: heterosupremacist
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25 posted on 03/21/2017 5:21:34 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Olog-hai
He's a little late to object to the President in the last 8 years. This is why business as usual is not accepted, C. 👍
26 posted on 03/21/2017 5:21:54 PM PDT by keving (We are the Government)
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To: lodi90

I am sick of the disrespect too, but by both sides. Now saying that the Dem party never once bolted , or went against obama. These turds in the GOP have a massive ego and still not get what we want.
I swear my heart is pumping like mad right now as i type this


27 posted on 03/21/2017 5:26:51 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Olog-hai
McConnell said. “Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don’t think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective — and certainly cheaper — than military engagement.”

McConnell, you ignorant senile slut!Name ONE instance in your miserable lifetime where diplomacy permanently eliminated an ongoing physical war or civil conflict which already has created tens of thousands of innocent victims directly and indirectly?

28 posted on 03/21/2017 5:28:56 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: lodi90

“POTUS needs to invite Bernie to the White House to discuss “campaign finance reform”. That would be an excellent shot across their bow that should keep them onside and playing for Team Trump.”

That would indeed be shot across the bow .... but I’m mean, Bernie crazy uncle Bernie to the White House? That’s asking a lot from the POTUS.


29 posted on 03/21/2017 5:33:01 PM PDT by conservaKate
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To: Robert DeLong

I don’t buy that executive discretion canard especially when it excuses liberal spending. Faithful execution of the laws does not entail entertaining a chief executive’s whim, but within the bounds of law. Same goes for Congress in its appropriation of money.


30 posted on 03/21/2017 5:34:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“”because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective””

Good golly - just name one time, Mitch. We don’t need “many times” - just one will do. PLEASE!!! What on earth is the payoff for any senator to think millions going to foreign aid is appropriate? Are his constituents in agreement with giving OUR MONEY away to foreign countries? He’s sure not advocating it to impress his voters.


31 posted on 03/21/2017 5:37:10 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t I just read here that all of these aholes think America is the “laughstock” of the world? Probably because we’re the only ones dumb enough to give taxpayer dollars away to America-hating foreigners. You can’t fix stupid.


32 posted on 03/21/2017 5:41:57 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: ManHunter
And Congress funds the foreign policy. Trump's budget is a starting point. It won't look that way at the end of the process because Congress has their input.

Trump knows the final product won't reflect what was proposed. Congress will split the difference, more or less, and next year Trump will cut a little more and the same the year after that. That is how it works. It still will be better than what it is at the moment.

33 posted on 03/21/2017 5:42:17 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Olog-hai

Trump should insist upon the cuts to the foreign welfare McConnell wants or keep vetoing the funding bill until McConnell caves or Trump is overridden.

Truth be told, these guys like McConnell don’t want to cut anything.


34 posted on 03/21/2017 5:44:30 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: silverleaf

Apparently Bitch did not get the message that Trump was in Louisville last night.
The Turtle truly is THAT dense!
Amazing.


35 posted on 03/21/2017 5:47:35 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Olog-hai; All
Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"McConnell rejects Trump's foreign aid cuts"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regarding foreign aid, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. McConnell unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to appropriate taxes in the name of foreign aid.

In fact, Justice Joseph Story had clariifed that Congress cannot use the General Welfare Clause (1.8.1) as an excuse to justify foreign aid.

If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added>.” —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

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Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.


36 posted on 03/21/2017 5:48:26 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: SharpRightTurn
McConnell is a big-government “New Republican” in the mold of people like Arthur Larson. He already spoke against getting rid of the Appalachian Regional Commission, which was created by LBJ and is mentioned as a candidate for being cut in Trump’s budget.
37 posted on 03/21/2017 5:48:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
The Appalachian Regional Commission is a spigot where Appalachian politicians both Rat and GOP hand out money to their pals. It does little for the region. McConnell wants to keep the spigot turned on!
38 posted on 03/21/2017 5:54:10 PM PDT by Reily
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To: publius911

The CIA/NSA dirt on him.

They have the details on his wife’s shipping company. Seems like there was some controversy with it.


39 posted on 03/21/2017 5:54:38 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ship’s chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or about ninety pounds, of cocaine. A Colombian Coast Guard official told The Nation that there is an ongoing investigation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/


40 posted on 03/21/2017 5:56:28 PM PDT by RummyChick
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