Posted on 05/20/2016 9:28:17 AM PDT by C19fan
The Lee Amendment to defund President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation failed in the Senate yesterday because not enough Republicans backed it. The Amendment was tabled by a vote of 60-37.
Jeremy Carl aptly describes this vote as a defeat for conservatism, community control, and common sense. It is a victory, as Carl says, for turning the federal government into a National Zoning board, forcing high density housing on unwilling cities and towns, and letting bureaucrats decide the racial, ethnic and income balance of local communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
The next 7 months are going to be hell (4 years and 7 months if Hillary wins).
0bama is going to ramrod a lot of bad things down our throats will the help of butt hurt Republicans bitter about their rejection by the voters in this years primaries.
I’ll take “Uses For Lampposts” for 500, Alex.
Yup, the usual suspects.
I prefer a reverse strategy. Organize and target the acquisition of inner city housing which the ghetto hoard has ruined with neglect and abandonment for about five cents on the dollar. Then rehabilitate it and move in along with your friends who do the same. Turn the tables.
So worth repeating.
What is wrong with these GOP morons? This is a no-brainer for anyone with a thimbleful of Constitutional education.
The House and the Senate are a lost cause.
We should focus on state nullification and local pushback. Clearly unconstitutional (not that the inside the Beltway crowd cares).
Adherence to the Constitution has to be all or nothing. Once it starts to be dismantled or ignored, it only gets worse. Case in point - look where we are now.
A pox on the districts of all those who elect idiots that are throwing this nation away for nil.. except keeping their pockets full and nests feathered..
I read the article wrong...but I don’t like Mike Lee...he’s another RINO...I don’t care what people think of him, I live in Utah...he’s been mentored by Orrin Hatch...I know he shows he’s high on the list of Conservatives, but I don’t think Conservative means what it used to anymore...
JMHO....thank you....
Must be campaign donations from construction companies that just wanna’ build more stuff that nobody can stop. Federal law supercedes local ordinance.
You see, HarleyLady27 has gone “binary”. She sees the world in only two states...with Trump or not with Trump. There is no “right”. There is no “wrong”. There is no “conservative”. There is no “liberal”.
Just “with Trump” or “not with Trump”.
Mike Lee endorsed Cruz. He is “not with Trump”. He is bad. Things he sponsors are bad.
We should just razor wire Washington DC, close all air, rail, traffic and road access and rename it Washmo, a detention site for criminals.
If they can swim the Chesapeake Bay or Susquehanna, it will be the first amount of hard work they have ever done and deserve a pass out.
"Here is a list of the Republican Senators who backed this left-wing agenda (most of the names won’t surprise you):
Lamar Alexander
Kelly Ayotte
Roy Blunt
Richard Burr
Dan Coats
Thad Cochran
Susan Collins
Lindsey Graham
Orrin Hatch
John Hoeven
Johnny Isakson
Mark Kirk
John McCain
Lisa Murkowski
Rob Portman
Thom Tillis
These are the traitors, the DIABLOs (democrats in all but label only) who should receive your condemnation. Include McConnell and a double portion for Susan Collins who proposed the amendment that gives them cover but stops nothing. Obama must be laughing with joy. There is no opposition party.
Every one of those names plus some others (like Corker, TN) have to be removed from the senate to even imagine we will get anything done. They think they are there for life and truth be known, they've learned how to manipulate the public. Each one of them needs the light shined on them every single time they do things like this. I don't envy Donald Trump, but if he is serious about fixing things, he's going to need a strong person with single minded determination to clean out the Augean Stables that is the Senate.
I have been for Trump since the day he announced, have supported him, worked on his campaign for a while, and yes, I will support him 100%...
Mike Lee is up for re-election here in Utah, of course he’s going to promise the stars, moon and beyond, tell us everything HE thinks we want to think, WRONG, not this time!!!
Johnny Isakson - is up for re-election this November.
Come on fellow Georgians, let’s get this guy out of office.
Guess I’ll have to stock up on more guns and ammo...
an edit post function would come in handy right about now wouldn’t it
Bills are no longer written by our Congressmen. Lobbyists write them and they are designed to suck government $$$ from the taxpayers. I suspect this would give builders and real restate more margins to work with.
You can say That again !
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