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Florida GOP member Rooney ‘thinking’ about impeachment
AP ^ | Oct 19 2019 | LAURIE KELLMAN

Posted on 10/19/2019 9:30:00 AM PDT by rintintin

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To: Grampa Dave

Better..


41 posted on 10/19/2019 10:38:32 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Another member of a party just yearning to be deep-sixed.


42 posted on 10/19/2019 10:44:42 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: rintintin

This RINO is a Bushie big time. He beat Dan Bongino who I hope comes back and runs for this seat. He has always been anti-Trump and BTW he was one of the coauthors of the recent rebuke of President Trump.


43 posted on 10/19/2019 11:03:04 AM PDT by lone star annie
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To: Starboard

I didn’t realize there were 2 Congressman Rooney’s in Fla. One of them said on Vitter’s show that he was not running anymore.
I was listening in the car on satellite radio an hour or so ago,


44 posted on 10/19/2019 11:05:18 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: Sparky1776

Does anybody know how long the arms shipment to Ukraine was delayed? I’m there were many factors involved between the date the arms were approved, and the date they were actually shipped.

Does anyone else notice that the news NEVER gets into the details of what they are reporting. They just repeat talking points.


45 posted on 10/19/2019 11:11:48 AM PDT by euclid216
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To: Starboard

https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/rooney-not-seek-reelection

Looks like neither Rooney is running again.


46 posted on 10/19/2019 11:14:07 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: rintintin

Is there absolutely no limit to Republican vaginary?


47 posted on 10/19/2019 11:18:22 AM PDT by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: euclid216

It is not news now, My FRiend, it is opinion and propaganda.


48 posted on 10/19/2019 11:18:58 AM PDT by sport
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To: rintintin

He’s gone if he votes for impeachment. He can resign and look for another line of work.


49 posted on 10/19/2019 11:24:34 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

He’s worth $20 million and owns his own business. He’s just the type of guy who would vote for impeachment without a care in the world.


50 posted on 10/19/2019 11:27:08 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: AndyJackson

This dirtbag “Republican” is retiring and flipping the bird at the Trump voters that also elected him on his way out the door.


51 posted on 10/19/2019 11:29:20 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: rintintin
I think the president should start doing rallies these traitorous congress members district and have panels of potential primary candidates drawn from local successful business people on stage with him.

People know the score and if the president tells that district to give that guy the hook - that house member is going to see thousands of voters in one moment decide they are done.

He won't have to do it to many times

It's time for pro American pro Trump Republicans these current ones have squandered so much - it's amazing what the president has been able to accomplish.

52 posted on 10/19/2019 11:32:35 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: datricker

I think the president should start doing rallies these traitorous congress members district and have panels of potential primary candidates drawn from local successful business people on stage with him.


The GOP doesn’t care. This dirt bag is retiring and showing his true colors.


53 posted on 10/19/2019 11:35:54 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: pnut22

So he’ll do a McCain and split.


54 posted on 10/19/2019 11:38:19 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: rintintin

This might be a backdoor effort to force Pelosi to have yet another impeachment inquiry vote in the house, which could kill the whole damned thing.

Either way, such a vote is a lose-lose-lose for Democrats.

1) She already tried an impeachment vote three times and failed. One more and the “committee inquiries” will likely go up in smoke.

2) If the radical Dems think they might get some Republican votes for impeachment, they will put a lot more pressure on her to have it.

3) If the house does vote for it, they have no choice but to use fair rules, and the Republicans can then fight back.

4) The Dems are going to get savaged over it all in the 2020 elections.


55 posted on 10/19/2019 11:45:17 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder.)
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To: Starboard; SkyDancer; All
"We need to do our part and start voting on the basis of tangible RESULTS instead of the empty rhetoric on our side."

Beware of results concerning federal domestic policy!

Consider that nearly all federal domestic social spending programs are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.

”... 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, emphasizing the power of the people of a given state to decide how their state will care for them.

"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.)

So why is the federal government now dictating domestic policy since the main domestic spending program that the states have expressly constitutionally authorized the feds to run is arguably the US Mail Service (1.8.7)?

Let's contrast the reasonable clarification of the federal government's constitutionally limited powers by the last of the state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court majority justices in the 1930s, the justices having explained the fed's limited powers in the context of the 10th Amendment (10A) in United States v. Butler (Butler) shown below, with how FDR's state sovereignty-ignoring majority justices later interpreted that amendment.

Using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” the excerpt below from Wickard v. Filburn then shows what was left of the Court's defense of 10A-protected state sovereignty in Butler after FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices got finished with it, the justices scandalously deciding Wickard in Congress’s favor imo.

The remedy for the unconstitutionally big federal government on our backs…

Patriots must elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to fully support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do the following.

New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to work with PDJT in surrendering state powers that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states back to the states.

Patriots then need to make restored state powers permanent by further supporting PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)


56 posted on 10/19/2019 12:55:03 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: rintintin

I hope someone in the WH is keeping track of these disloyal, nitwit bastards.


57 posted on 10/19/2019 1:01:14 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: rintintin

Rs who are thinking impeachment should also think about getting their resume up to date.


58 posted on 10/19/2019 1:23:15 PM PDT by bgill
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To: pnut22

OK, thanks for that.


59 posted on 10/20/2019 7:29:56 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Amendment10

“New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to work with PDJT in surrendering state powers that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states back to the states.”

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That is exactly the kind of RESULTS I have in mind. The Republicans talk about smaller government but all they do is vote (with the Democrats) to increase its size. Every two years we need to demand that they show us evidence of working to downsize the federal government. From that singular objective we can solve a lot of our current problems that stem from a one-size-fits-all overbearing government. That is the source of much of the division in this country.


60 posted on 10/20/2019 7:38:09 AM PDT by Starboard
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