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By the way, I see democrats Schumer, Pelosi and Co, on Fox News right now declaring it's not 'right' for the president tom be changing longstanding war policy? Hmmmm... did the congress actually declare war on Turkey or Syria any time recently?
1 posted on 10/16/2019 1:21:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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Yes, let them do their job. Debate the issue and declare war...or STFU


2 posted on 10/16/2019 1:25:29 PM PDT by nikos1121
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It’s all about POWER & CONTROL.

They dont give a damn whats constitutional and what isnt.

Trump took their power and now they will do whatever it takes to get it back, along with their willing accomplices in the media.....


3 posted on 10/16/2019 1:28:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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4 posted on 10/16/2019 1:31:26 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I want Scuumer/Pelosi to explain to me why I should advise my son to join the military to fight and perhaps die in Stria.


5 posted on 10/16/2019 1:35:02 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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Jim, you are 100% right. I was JUST thinking about this on the way home; this is a key responsibility of the president, to negotiate with foreign leaders to extend his policies and vision for America. That’s why these are supposed to be privileged communications.


6 posted on 10/16/2019 1:38:26 PM PDT by LambSlave
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The whistleblower statute does NOT Apply to the President, it applies to his subordinates. The IG should have Immediately ARRESTED the SPY along with every last person he had contact with regarding this issue. ALL of them should have been Declared Enemy Combatants and sent to GITMO forever!! This was, is and always has been a concerted effort to engage in a Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States Government, and there are a Lot of Players!

Give me 12 feet of rope and I can fix all of our problems.


7 posted on 10/16/2019 1:38:39 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Trump!


8 posted on 10/16/2019 1:40:03 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Freedom, if you can keep it)
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Can’t depend on the swamp draining itself.
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No we can’t.

We have to start replacing the people in Congress who have made a career out of fundamentally transforming our country against our will.
Every Amnesty Senator needs to be replaced with people who side with the citizens and the rule of law.


9 posted on 10/16/2019 1:43:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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If there’s one thing that Trump hates, it’s corruption.


10 posted on 10/16/2019 1:44:13 PM PDT by babble-on
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Thank you!

Those who now despise the person whom "the People" elected in 2016 to serve as the nation's President until the next election might review the words of the very first President under the Constitution.

No wonder the First President of this Republic issued a grave warning for future generations on the "dangers" of the "spirit of Party"!

George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties

“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”

Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
 

“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
...

“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...

“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.

“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.

“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
 

“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."

11 posted on 10/16/2019 2:53:56 PM PDT by loveliberty2 (`)
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Great post and the same goes for immigration. The Constitution gives that authority to the President.


12 posted on 10/16/2019 5:00:10 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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FDR would have been impeached multiple times under today’s Democrat standard of foreign policy offenses.


13 posted on 10/16/2019 5:03:59 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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