Transcript: Sen. Mark Warner on "Face the Nation," April 21, 2024

CBS ^ | 4/21/24 | Mark Warner

[hardspunned]

“Now and the last two years, with less than 3% of our defense budget, two years running, with the Ukrainians have eliminated 87% of the Russians pre existing ground forces, 63% of their tanks, 32% of their armored personnel carriers”

[jjotto]

Isthmus of Perekop

[Glad2bnuts]

It feels horrible hating your own government. YET, here am I pondering the destruction of DC and its surrounding environs.

[rxh4n1]

“Crimea is an island. There cannot be any “overland rail” onto it.”

Look at a good map. It is not an island, and there is a rail line there already.

[x]

A bridge is needed to get to Crimea from the East. No bridge is needed to get to it from the Northwest. A smaller bridge is needed from the Northeast.

[silverleaf]

^^^

He really is as stupid as he looks

If the the Ukes took out 87% of the Russian military and all those tanks, NATO should stand down and reduce their budget

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article OakOak.

"The Ukraine bills were packed with Trillions of woke spending in consolidated spending bills. Over and over."

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I have no reason to doubt that the probably mostly unconstitutional woke spending based on Congress's abuse of its repealable 16th Amendment powers (direct taxes) will be fully documented in the constitutionally required public record of federal spending. /super-sarc

"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."

In the meanwhile, it's up to Democratic and Republican Trump-supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new patriot Congress in November so he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term in office but will be able to quickly finish draining the swamp.

• "16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

• “If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).

• "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.

• From the congressional record:

  ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

• Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)

• Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)

[alternatives?]

I remember a column by a true journalist “I Believe”.

[Amendment10]

I meant thank you for posting OakOak.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

That’s one way to get “The Great Reset.”

[Bob Wills is still the king]

All of your fine quotations are from the “First Republic.” We’re in at least the “3rd Republic” now.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

My mental acuity on Sunday morning needed more coffee. Yes, there is that tiny isthmus that barely, just barely, lets Crimea qualify as a peninsula. Yes there is a rail line of sorts. Russian occupiers had to build a new bridge a few dozen miles to the east, in the occupied territory on the mainland, so they could get trains carrying any significant weight that far. Another report I saw last night said that the track on Crimea is in such sorry shape that they have to restrict trains to 10 MPH in places. And Ukraine has knocked it out a couple of times, too. Not lately. Not worth the trouble? Not exactly a substitute for the Kerch bridge, which accesses Russia directly.