Posted on 10/19/2019 9:30:00 AM PDT by rintintin
President Donald Trump gave an atta-boy to Republican Rep. Francis Rooney last year on the congressmans home turf in swing state Florida.
I love it when he defends me, the president said then. He might feel differently now.
The second-term Republican said publicly Friday what others in his party are not, namely that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged a quid pro quo was at work when Trump held up U.S. aid to Ukraine in exchange for Kyivs investigation of Democrats and the 2016 elections. Mulvaney later claimed his comments had been misconstrued, but Rooney said he and other Republicans heard them clearly.
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Better..
Another member of a party just yearning to be deep-sixed.
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.
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,
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.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/rooney-not-seek-reelection
Looks like neither Rooney is running again.
Is there absolutely no limit to Republican vaginary?
It is not news now, My FRiend, it is opinion and propaganda.
Hes gone if he votes for impeachment. He can resign and look for another line of work.
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.
This dirtbag “Republican” is retiring and flipping the bird at the Trump voters that also elected him on his way out the door.
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.
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.
So he’ll do a McCain and split.
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.
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 Binghams 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 FDRs state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices got finished with it, the justices scandalously deciding Wickard in Congresss favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. United States v. Butler, 1936.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
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 PDJTs 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!)
"The Holy Grail of organized crime is to control government power to tax." me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." me
"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.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." me
I hope someone in the WH is keeping track of these disloyal, nitwit bastards.
Rs who are thinking impeachment should also think about getting their resume up to date.
OK, thanks for that.
“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.
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