Posted on 08/11/2017 1:39:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Republican-led Senator lied to the American people. They promised to repeal the failed Obamacare law for seven-and-a-half years. They ran their campaigns on repealing Obamacare. But they all lied.
And then Mitch McConnell had the gall to blame President Trump for expecting too much from the senate!
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11 Gobs Of Poop!
>>Regardless, you argue by jumping to unsupported conclusions.
It’s the INTERNET. Do you supply citations for everything you say? Of course not. Let me remind of your comment that started all this:
>>I’m tired of seeing the neo-Right using terms like “Do-Nothing Senate”. What a wrong-headed concept for those who love freedom and America. What does the Right want - an activist federal government???? NO!!!!
You keep acting like you were right when you said this. I explained what we mean by “Do Nothing Senate” and you persisted in your ignorance. Then, you started walking it back by pretending that you never said it. You STARTED with an unsupported conclusion pal and just went to Crazytown after that.
A short and effective solution might be a new Constitutional Amendment: All politicians and government employees - If you lie, you die. Cost of rope will be deducted from your death benefits.
Who's "we"? Certainly the article doesn't explain that it doesn't mean an activist Senate regardless of the constitutionality or desirability of its actions which is my objection to this phrase. Many times this phrase appears where this explanation doesn't exist.
Who is "we" and what is your explanation?
Take your time.
A “POST OF THE YEAR” nominee, right there, for sure.
I'd be perfectly happy if congress did nothing whatsoever but pass a budget and repeal laws for the next 3 terms.
I don't need you pity. I am just realistic about how the process works.
The issue is ENFORCING the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended.
Well, that would be nice, but what you have in fact is the Constitution as amended and interpreted by SCOTUS for the last 150 years or so. You can't just vote that away. If your lucky you can get some of the worst decisions overturned (Wickard for one)
Only way I know of is your Article V. But that is a long ways off and could do more harm than good unless the agenda was strictly limited to the repeal and term limits. Even then, the process is fraught with pitfalls.
Article V does not open the whole Constitution up the replace. Anything that does pass requires 2/3 of the states. The left doesn't have the votes to enact anything onerous. That is why I said, now may be our best chance to act.
“With the left out of power all over the country”
What country do you live in?
Obviously that would include getting Trump's nominees passed through the Senate, Obamacare repealed, and tax reform
We want a Do-A-Few-Things Senate, not a Do-Anything-Just-So-Long-As-It's-Something Senate. I'd like to see us pay these guys part time like it used to be. After undoing 100+ years of unconstitutional laws and acts, doing the few things to maintain a limited, constitutional government should easliy be done on a part time basis. Let them go home to a real job and save our money.
Your "realism" has no faith. If the Founders were bound by "realism" we'd still be under English tyranny. What makes you think what we're facing is more impossible than what the Founders were facing - a rag-tag bunch of colonists against the mightiest nation in the world?
Facts - what's "real" - can and does change. Truth doesn't change. The Declaration of Independence which frames the Constitution states some of those relevant truths - truths like Life and Liberty that are worth fighting and dying for. Our Founders fought and died for liberty and won against all odds and "realism".
In the same way, 150 or so years of unconstitutional and invalid federal acts and decisions - federal tyranny - can be undone at the state level and the federal level.
At the state level, the states and the people of the states need to reclaim their constitutional state sovereignty and reject and nullify unconstitutional federal acts by becoming financially INDEPENDENT from the feds as they once were.
At the federal level, the people need to continue electing non-politicians like Trump who are ready, willing, and able to dismantle the unconstitutional portion of the federal government.
It won't happen without the Divine Providence of God but what else is new? America would never have existed with Him, and Divine Providence is now at work to restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
I think you are off point, at least re MY posting. I want Congress to do only what they promised: Repeal Obamacare, period. They had 7 YEARS to strategize. Pres. Trump is right to whack them verbally.
My post and ping was to address the misguided or at least ill-defined “Do Nothing” concept in the headline, not to specifically address your comment. But it looks like we’re pretty close.
If you use that logic you should never vote for a republican either because most of them are pro abortion no matter what they claim. Note every one of the Republicans running for the senate last election ran on abolish Obamacare, they didn't really mean it.
“If you use that logic you should never vote for a republican either because most of them are pro abortion no matter what they claim.”
So, I should never vote for a Republican because you assume that “most” of them are secret pro-aborts.
That about it?
Nope but a lot of them are and you likely have voted for some, therefore you are guilty of voting for pro aborts.
If people, since Ryan had a lock on the primary, had taken Ryan out by voting for the democrat we might be in better shape than we are. In fact voting for the Dem may be the only way to take out some of the worst RINOs.
“Nope but a lot of them are and you likely have voted for some, therefore you are guilty of voting for pro aborts.”
I wish I had the energy to address this at some length, but I just don’t.
The short answer is that we are not required never to make a mistake. We are required to do our best, and to keep striving.
I make a good-faith effort to discover whether a politician is a pro-abort. If a politician lies and I am deceived, I am guilty of bad judgment, not willful support of evil.
“In fact voting for the Dem may be the only way to take out some of the worst RINOs.”
Evil means may never be used, no matter how desirable the goal.
So it is surrender for you because we can never vote evil when in fact we do it all the time whether you admit it or not.
“So it is surrender for you because we can never vote evil when in fact we do it all the time whether you admit it or not.”
Look, I can see from what you write that everything you know about Christian theology is wrong. That is probably not your fault. You were just unlucky.
But when you willfully refuse to understand explanations, because to do so would jerk the legs from under your nonsensical animadversions, you cross the line from discussion into childish malice. That is something for which I have no time.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. You have it right.
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