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SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK LEE AMENDMENT, PRESERVE AFFH (Obama's Plan to Ghettoize Your Neighborhood)
PowerLine ^ | May 20, 2016 | Paul Mirengoff

Posted on 05/20/2016 9:28:17 AM PDT by C19fan

The Lee Amendment to defund President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation failed in the Senate yesterday because not enough Republicans backed it. The Amendment was tabled by a vote of 60-37.

Jeremy Carl aptly describes this vote as a defeat for conservatism, community control, and common sense. It is a victory, as Carl says, for turning the federal government into a National Zoning board, forcing high density housing on unwilling cities and towns, and letting bureaucrats decide the racial, ethnic and income balance of local communities.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affh; biggovernment; crime; housing; hud; marxism; mikelee; obamazoning; propertyrights; race; senate; tyranny; zoning
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To: C19fan

The Trump solution should abolish HUD.


121 posted on 05/20/2016 9:25:43 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Adherence to the Constitution has to be all or nothing. Once it starts to be dismantled or ignored, it only gets worse. Case in point - look where we are now.

We need a Constitutional Conservative who can get an amendment passed, that they can ignore with impunity, that will fix it.

Governors that ignore the power the 10th gives them are useless.

122 posted on 05/21/2016 10:40:31 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: HarleyLady27
Orrin Hatch gave us Buzzy Ginsburg.
123 posted on 05/21/2016 10:42:17 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Ditzy; sargon
I am a conservative.

Now that is a Cruznadian answer if I ever saw one.

124 posted on 05/21/2016 10:46:21 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Theodore R.
This is true all over the country, but the American people don’t know that.

They have tried for thirty years to inject low income housing into the city of Indian Wells CA, near Palm Springs. Indian Wells used to have the richest population per square foot of any city in the US maybe not now but still full of the well to do. Maybe they will finally get it done, and the locals will be able to have new bridge partners.

125 posted on 05/21/2016 11:06:18 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: nitzy
Trump is not a deity. He is just a VERY flawed man who currently appears to be the best shot at defeating socialism. That is all.

That is all? Some here might think that is more than enough while some think stirring the pot will some how magically produce the perfect candidate. Others here think that strategy is more likely to create martial law. But keep it up otherwise this forum might get boring. </s>

126 posted on 05/21/2016 11:10:57 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: thoughtomator
He has a long record of being a rock-solid Constitution defender.

And that has produced exactly what? Has he came out and condemned the leadership for this latest travesty? Um no he is busy trashing Trump.

127 posted on 05/21/2016 11:56:40 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: JBW1949
Please explain where we’ve used “might” in the last 7 years.....

Gay marriage, obamacare, little sister of the poor, small bakers, Hinnican....to name a few.

128 posted on 05/21/2016 11:58:48 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: itsahoot

This was a question that referred to military use...I don’t understand your view...Sorry....


129 posted on 05/21/2016 12:02:02 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: C19fan

Traitors.


130 posted on 05/21/2016 12:02:47 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: itsahoot

He was instrumental in making sure Obama couldn’t kill Americans on American soil, for starters. Look up his record - 99 times out of 100, we couldn’t ask for someone better.


131 posted on 05/21/2016 12:10:04 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: rmlew
I'm not here to denounce Donald Trump. Go vote for him. I'm questioning the sanity of ersatz conservatives who supported the conman and still speak of him as if he were ever a conservative.

D@mn straight Go Hillary!

132 posted on 05/21/2016 12:14:00 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: thoughtomator
Look up his record - 99 times out of 100, we couldn’t ask for someone better.

Voting right is not the same as accomplishing something.

133 posted on 05/21/2016 12:17:35 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: JBW1949
This was a question that referred to military use...I don’t understand your view...Sorry....

I know the difference. We do one, we don't do the other.

134 posted on 05/21/2016 12:18:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: itsahoot

I encourage you to evaluate him more thoroughly before casting him into the everlasting fires of Hell.


135 posted on 05/21/2016 12:19:05 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: itsahoot

OK...I see....


136 posted on 05/21/2016 12:22:06 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: thoughtomator
I encourage you to evaluate him more thoroughly before casting him into the everlasting fires of Hell.

I have no power to do that. I have admired him for a long time even considered he would make a much better candidate than Cruz and he would have.

Sadly there is a very corrupt voting system in both Houses whereby a member can maintain a very high conservative record without ever really moving the conservative agenda forward and it is by design.

137 posted on 05/21/2016 12:24:37 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: itsahoot

That’s something that is controlled at the leadership level. Boehner and Ryan and to a slightly lesser extent McConnell are the primarily responsible parties.


138 posted on 05/21/2016 12:26:01 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

I see our RINO senator Johnny Isakson voted against the Lee amendment. You can always count on him to disappoint.


139 posted on 05/21/2016 12:42:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: itsahoot

What I was replying to was a post vilifying Mike Lee. Just a few short months ago it was generally recognized that Mike Lee is a conservative, a friend of the constitution and one of the most consistent and best minds in the Senate.

People on here have become so brainwashed by the religion of Trumpism that they now knee jerk react to a story with the name “Mike Lee” by spouting off a criticism simply because he endorsed the other guy. (even though their criticism was actually 100% misguided)

As I have said, I will almost certainly vote for Trump. But, I will also continue to criticize his liberal policies, I will criticize FR posters who support liberal policies and I will counter arguments made against life long conservatives.

I have been posting here a while and lurking a lot longer. My experience is that this is a conservative forum not a cult of personality worshiping forum. If my insistence on conservatism is labeled “stirring the pot” and gets me banned....so be it.


140 posted on 05/23/2016 5:41:02 AM PDT by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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