Posted on 01/20/2021 9:04:34 PM PST by weston
I just flipped through the cable guide. Both CNN and MSDNC have “the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump” listed. Disgusting.
They have a printing press and they intend to use it.
Remember the retired Chicago firefighter who was accused by internet trolls in participating in the January 6 Capitol event, and he wasn't even there? And it was actually a retired PA firefighter?
That's why I always ask for proof. Someone just posting something saying whatever isn't proof. It's opinion.
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Good for him! Now Biden will want to shut down SpaceX for good!
Sooo much fake news out there.
Arizona GOP state senator Paul Boyer upends efforts to hold Maricopa Board of Supervisors in contempt
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3933000/posts
like the artwork.
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Don't lose heart! Have some good news for you who can receive it.
Roberts will have a scrooge type meeting with God, tables will be turned ACB will help.
Prophetic Dream: Trump returns on Airforce One, Lady Liberty on her knees, Great Revival - Tim Dixon
thanks for ping.. I really appreciate keeping in loop with all ideas and information.
The one important thought that I had (and I don’t get too many).. most of us; q; conservatives all look forward and are hopeful PDJT will be back in the White House or in some way in charge of the “new” republic.. or the old one.. whatever
What if he really does not want to. He is probably quite fed up with the BS in DC.. He is smart.. he can do a lot for American and make money... hes a great capitalist..with new media, developing voting changes, supporting and black balling disloyals..
I cant imagine him wanting to bring his family back for all that abuse.
Of course that makes the left the winner of this round.. maybe, maybe not
Disappointed Rush wasn’t on. Maybe last Thursday was his last broadcast...
Got beef and brocolli in the crock pot for Jen.. Had triple cheese potato pancakes last night. One of my favorite meals
I am so praying for Rush.
I agree Dolly, President Trump can probably accomplish more without the obstruction in DC. Whatever he does i will back him completely. It is breaking my heart to see the undoing of all his good works. Foreign policy, open borders, taxes, it’s massive. I wish we could have at least got immigration legislation through when we had the chance, but we need to choose our congress more wisely.
Exit, saw this thread and thought of you, great comments!
How Long Does Bacon Last in the Fridge?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3933023/posts
Biden Runs Into ‘Most Important Person You Don’t Know’
Republicans controlled not just the White House but also both chambers of Congress, and even in that moment of unified government at the beginning of the Trump presidency, their power was not complete.
Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan was strategizing with party lawmakers behind closed doors about how to accomplish the single most defining GOP promise of the 2016 campaign: repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The person to watch in the Senate, Ryan said, was “Elizabeth.”
Do you mean, one congressman asked, the junior senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren?
“No,” Ryan replied.
“Elizabeth, the Senate parliamentarian.”
As the Wall Street Journal reported at the time, Ryan was talking about Elizabeth MacDonough.
The Washington Post would go on to introduce her as the staffer who “could change the course of the health-care debate,” while The Hill later called her “the most powerful person in Washington few have heard of.”
Politico summed up the story by calling the parliamentarian “Obamacare’s little secret.”
The sudden interest in the obscure official was because the parliamentarian determines which laws can be repealed (or passed) using budget reconciliation, the procedure by which the Senate can avoid a filibuster and allow legislation to pass by a simple majority.
This makes the parliamentarian the powerful procedural traffic cop on Capitol Hill, as all of the headlines asserted. MacDonough stopped Republicans cold when they tried using reconciliation to repeal some provisions of Obamacare, and she might soon rule that a provision in the COVID relief bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 is out of order.
This fact has triggered a fresh case of déjà vu and prompted a telling exchange in the White House briefing room on Monday. The parliamentarian is an unelected bureaucrat while Vice President Kamala Harris is the president of the Senate. A CNN reporter asked: Would the White House like to see Harris overrule the official to deliver on a key campaign promise?
“I think our view is that the parliamentarian is who is chosen typically to make a decision in a nonpartisan manner in terms of what can be included in a package that goes through reconciliation, the proper process for this to journey through,” press secretary Jen Psaki responded.
That short answer could signal a massive bucket of cold water on progressives’ hopes.
“Let’s be clear. We can pass a $15 min wage & $2000 checks,” tweeted Rep. Ro Khanna, a close ally of incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders. The California Democrat added that “the decision is not with Senate Parliamentarian but VP Harris, as chair. If the House passes (where we have a majority), & VP Harris rules it in, NO WAY any Senate Dem votes no on final passage.”
If progressives wind up feeling disappointed instead, conservatives can commiserate. Four years ago, it was Sen. Ted Cruz who argued that Mike Pence should disregard the parliamentarian and, as vice president, take a broader view of reconciliation.
“You don’t have to override the parliamentarian or get a new parliamentarian,” Cruz told reporters.
“Under the statute, it is the vice president who rules. It is the presiding officer who makes the decision. The parliamentarian advises on that question.”
Cruz and others lobbied the White House to break with precedent, and a former senior administration official told RealClearPolitics that Pence and then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were briefed on the question of disregarding the parliamentarian. “Both were strongly opposed,” the official recalled.
As is true of Biden, McConnell has a strong affinity for Senate traditions and the chamber’s sometimes-arcane rules and procedures. And while the vice president remains president of the Senate, the role has largely become honorific — except for certain occasions, as former Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove explained in 2010.
“No vice president has ever tried to play a role in reconciliation. Basically, since Walter Mondale was vice president, they have kind of been co-opted by the president and given an office down in the West Wing. Their interest in playing Senate politics has become attenuated,” Dove said during a Georgetown Law School symposium.
“That has left the Senate parliamentarian in an extremely powerful position.”
The new president seems to have resigned himself to the fact that, even with control of both houses of Congress, an unelected official will decide whether or not his minimum wage increase can be passed. “My guess is it will not” be included, he told Norah O’Donnell of CBS News on Friday. “… I don’t think it is going to survive.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-runs-most-important-person-you-dont-know
Georgia Secretary Of State’s Office Launches Investigation Into Trump’s Phone Call
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WATCH: Mayor Pete Mulling Mandatory Negative COVID Test For Airline Passengers
CNN’s Randi Kaye said she called the police over maskless fans in Tampa, Florida, celebrating the Super Bowl.
“I gave a call to Tampa Police to ask them what’s going on with all these people that are out and about and not wearing masks,” the snitch explained Sunday on the air, “there is a mask mandate in the City of Tampa while this pandemic is underway and during this time of the game there.”
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