Posted on 01/14/2016 1:01:35 PM PST by justlittleoleme
Donald Trump may not have to win the White House for the Senate to start voting on his agenda. Senate Democrats plan to force their Republican colleagues to take sides on the GOP presidential frontrunner's most controversial proposals by offering them as amendments to other bills this year.
"Since Republican leaders in the House and Senate have pledged loyalty to Trump, the obvious next step is to vote on his policies, including his unconstitutional plan to bar people from entering the United States based on their religion," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a Thursday statement, referencing Trump's call for a ban on Muslim entry to the U.S. following the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. "These votes will give all Senators a chance to take a stand on the policy issues dominating the public debate--and Republicans a chance to stand with the frontrunner for their nomination."
The not-so-subtle intent is to embarrass Republican Senators facing tough reelection fights in the fall by making them reckon with Trump's most polarizing pronouncements. Vulnerable GOP incumbents in swing-states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Wisconsin could find the proposition especially uncomfortable. Reid didn't indicate when Democrats would try to push the votes--though the annual process of assembling government-funding measures could provide an opportunity.
Reid's gambit--call it legislative trolling--is nothing new. In even-numbered years, lawmakers set aside most serious policymaking work to focus on positioning themselves for the election. President Obama acknowledged as much in the opening lines of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying he understands "that because it's an election season, expectations for what we'll achieve this year are low."
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The enemy of my enemy...
Just do what Rand Paul suggested- list Muslims majority countries.
It is absolutely legal to bar any and all immigration and immigration from a specific class or country via an Act of Congress.
Let’s vote on it.
Dems will find out (with Cologne stories and terrorists attack in Europe every week) they are, yet again, on the wrong side of this issue.
Pat Toomey is a “vulnerable incumbent” because he’s a gun-grabber. End of story.
“and [the United States] shall protect each of them [the States] against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
Shame on ole Mitch McConnell!
Actually, it’s not unconstitutional. It’s not based solely on religion anyway. It’s based on their proclivity to jihad. It’s a Muslim thing. It’s commanded by their “God” that they hate and kill all Jews, Christians and non-Muslims.
[The not-so-subtle intent is to embarrass Republican Senators facing tough reelection fights in the fall by making them reckon with Trump’s most polarizing pronouncements.]
Huh? Trump is leading by huge margins. If the Republicans want to be reelected, they better follow his lead.
Me neither. I'd love to see these Republicans further expose themselves in an election year.
And that's why the votes will not be taken. Harry will try, but McConnell still controls what hits the floor when he wants to.
And there will be no floor votes on ANY Trump proposal.
And Mitch McTurtle will sit by or even add his own ideas to Reid’s proposal. In other words, he’ll be an obedient Uniparty member and let Reid and his lefty hordes run over him again!
Sell him a defective tread mill please maybe he can get ti right this time and off himself
Toomey is going to be primaried this spring. He needs to be given the boot.
But if they want the Cheap Labor Express to fund their campaigns, they better not.
Scylla and Charybdis LOL!
LOL.Since we can’t agree on how to exclude muslims, let’s just agree to exclude everyone. How’s that for a compromise?
No immigration. At all. Period. Try it for 20 years and see how it goes.
Time to stop ALL immigration. This mess is totally out of control. I’m sick of the fighting.
It’s not unconstitutional. It’s the law of the land. Law passed by a Rat House and Senate, and signed into law by Harry Truman in 1952, his final year in office.
When did the Democrats regain control of the Senate?
Oh wait...
OK,.... all of you SHADOW FR Trumpites.
Does that settle it?
VOTE for CRUZ!!!!
Funny how the Dems are so darned concerned about the non-existent Constitutional Rights of non-citizens but can't wait to actively assault the very real, Constitutionally protected Rights of American citizens.
Personally I'd guess it's a ploy doomed to failure. Any Republican stupid enough to fall for it deserves what he gets.
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