Posted on 02/25/2019 2:35:58 PM PST by deplorableindc
President Trump's threatened first veto has been averted, at least for now, following an unexpected Senate parliamentarian decision derailing legislation to end the U.S. role in Yemen's civil war.
The legislation passed the House this month in a 248-177 vote and was expected to be considered by the Senate this week, before the parliamentarian determined it wasn't actually entitled to an up-or-down vote.
The news came as a shock to supporters, who first learned Monday that the bill was deemed "de-privileged," meaning it is not entitled to a guaranteed Senate vote after passing the House.
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If anybody gets the chance to translate this into English, please do so.
I REALLY need to brush up on the intricacies of our governmental system.
You should not have to....if they kept the rules and laws simple and understandable and available! But, they do none of these things.
Take that Pelousy you beotch
This bill was created by dems to Stop the US from funding Saudis in Yemen killing Iran backed islamic rebels.
Remember Obamas Arab Spring?
This started then. The Yemen leader was overthrown and replaced with his terrorist /Iran backed assistant deputy.This was backed by obama and Iran in order to get yemen a pure islamo terrorist state,
The people got sick of the Islamo bullcrap eventually and overthrew the assistant deputy after they found out the Arab Spring was a setup.
The current regime in place now is not hostile radical islamo terrorist which upsets our democrats.
So Iran , upset by this as well, uses rebels to take back Yemen yet again.
So now the rebels are fighting on behalf of Iran and the assistant deputy to overthrow the legitimate current leader who is backed by us and other countries.
Our dems want to defund this US funding to the current Yemen regimne so Islamists can take Yemen back again.Also in this bill was a booby trap that would limit Trumps war funding powers.They tried to sweeten the deal but Trump outsmarted them again with some help from McConnell who is using procedures to not even bring this bill up for vote.
So in summary:
Trump and Liberty wins
Dems lost again
Same as the intricacies of calvinball, built up over the past 50 years or so. Every decision is based on desired outcome, and there is enough in the way of "contradictory" rules to obtain any desired result.
Same legal principle that runs the courts. First choose the outcome, then pick a precedent that fits.
It really is shocking just how evil the Democrats are.
Yeah, what is happening here? And why is the US in Yemen, anyway? Is it one of those “deliver stacks of Obama cash” kind of things like in Iran?
Thanks for the clarity.
We’re destroying Yemen because Saudi Arabia & Israel want us to, as some there sympathize with Iran.
Left out of your summary is that apparently there were enough anti-American republicans who would have supported the bill that Trump would have been required to veto it.
Republicans in the House amended the bill with a non-germane section.
To be privileged in this case (not have to face a filibuster) the bill must not have any non-germane language.
I doubt anyone was surprised, Yemen is winding up.
Kabuki!
I’m so confused. I thought Trump wanted to get out of ME wars? He WANTS a war to continue in Yemen?
I don’t get it. If the saudis win will Yemen not be islamic.
There are ISIS and Al Queada groups in Yemen. These extremist are trying to take over the country.
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