Posted on 09/11/2019 9:28:29 AM PDT by PilotDave
In an unexpected morning vote Tuesday, Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives pushed through an override of Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the state budget.
Rep. Deb Butler (D-New Hanover/Brunswick) strongly protested the move with a speech that led a man to turn off her microphone. When she could not keep the microphone on, Butler shouted at House Speaker Tim Moore for “usurping” the process.
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To quote Sam Axe, what a whiney little bit**.
‘That led a MAN to turn off her microphone’
I get so tired of Leftists (and this is ALL of them) who think their opinion is the only one that should get consideration. I still watch some of the programs on FoxNews. Some of the ‘talent’, especially Martha McCallum, let the Dem pundit go on and on, leaving the Repub with very little time to speak. I am fed up with listening to the Left. Period. And watch how the fact that it was an evil MAN who turned off the microphone will get the most play on the ‘news’.
Unexpected, an obamaism.
Not being familiar with NC politics, why did Cooper veto the budget?
They need to do the same with the bill that would force all of the 100 county sheriff’s to cooperate with ICE to turn over or at the least notify ICE that illegals are in their jails! before being released by them back into the public!
The *sshole dem gov vetoed that repub bill recently!
From the article:
Cooper vetoed the budget passed by the General Assembly at the end of June, citing its lack of Medicaid expansion, among other things.
Looks like the 'Rat governor wants to spend the taxpayers' money the way a drunken sailor spends his own money ...
Thanks for this post.
This was an unexpected victory because in the last elections the Republican majority in the NC Legislalture was reduced and the news media said they could not now override the Dem. Governor’s veto....so take that news fakers!
I also heard this wacko Dem lady’s screeching tirade (local news media had it on). She was screaming at the top of her lungs that the Repubs had tricked everyone and that they would face the voters of NC who would turn them out.
My deep hope is that the NC Repubs will gain even more of a majority in 2020.
The budget’s going to be born, alive.
Rat woman politician is greatly upset.
Democrats can’t stand it when their own tactics are used against them.
I hope there’s a good explanation for this, because it is being made to look like the Republicans are dancing on the graves of the 9/11 dead, and the Republicans have been very quiet about giving their side of the story. The Democrats have said they were repeatedly told there would be no vote on this due to the 9/11 memorials this morning, and I haven’t heard a Republican really deny it yet. In fact, I haven’t seen any response at all from the Speaker.
NC is a purple state that Trump needs to win. No budget is worth this kind of political suicide. Moore had better get his ass on TV immediately to clean this mess up.
If that’s the case then patriots are reminded of the following.
When the states finally wake up and support PDJT in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the states will ultimately find new revenues to support increased spending on state social spending programs imo, depending on what the legal majority voting taxpaying citizens of a given state want.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had put it this way about unique state powers to care for the people.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Justice Brandeis later reflected on Bingham's words when he wrote the following.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
It’s about time Democrats learned that two sides can play the “manipulate procedural outcomes” game.
“It’s about time Democrats learned that two sides can play the “manipulate procedural outcomes” game.”
I’m with you. I’m also sick of this ‘take the high road’ shit. We always get it back in our faces when we do that.
It never ceases to humor me (if it weren't so darned infuriating) how Democrats feign to play stupid when the process works exactly as it is supposed to, and claim that the process is being usurped. Of course when they do the same, they all congratulate each other as great legislators for the people.
You snooze, you lose. Dems will have to get up earlier, even though they were up late drowning their sorrows last night.
Yep. Virginia is about to join the states that have their budgets wrecked by Medicaid Expansion.
The turnout in yesterday’s NC special election was a paltry 38%. The turnout in the presidential election should be at least twice that, so if all those who voted for Pres. Trump in 2016 support him again next year, NC should stay red.
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