Posted on 01/14/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
About a dozen Democratic lawmakers have announced their intention to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration next week as a protest of the president-elect’s plans for the country. The boycotters make up a small fraction of the 535 House and Senate members, but their decision to protest represents a break with tradition that they say is warranted by Trump’s agenda, which they see as extreme.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., told Yahoo News she decided she couldn’t celebrate Trump’s inauguration because of his comments during the campaign about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country and his vow to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I thought about it over and over again — it’s not a decision I came to lightly,” she said Thursday. “I thought about it very carefully because I do believe in democracy and this peaceful transfer of power.”
Lee was among a growing handful of Democratic lawmakers who objected last week to the certification of the Electoral College results on the House floor. She said she objected because of her concerns over Russian interference in the election.
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Good! I won’t have to see any of their ugly mugs!
well aren’t they special?
It[s a good thing the smell will be much nicer.
We can watch our Melania instead.
Personally, I’m eager to see what she and Ivanka are wearing to all of the events.
Democrat women always look like hell.
Same here! I’m sure they will look stunning!
So another words, less than 10% of the Democrats on Capital Hill will boycotting the Inauguration.
They will indeed be stunning!
Do you think Ivanka will wear another lovely dress from her own collection?
Good. Who cares? They are evil and un-American.
she decided she couldn’t celebrate Trump’s inauguration because of his comments during the campaign about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country and his vow to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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They must think they were elected to represent foreigners and not American citizens.
Hope so. Good advertising!
It does not matter if he was born in Hawaii if his father was a foreign national.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s).
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
No other possible citizenship(s).
Only when one cannot be anything else can one be a natural born citizen.
He told us he was born a British subject because of his foreign national father.
Who cares? They are lunatics. They would only lend a bad odor to the event. Such pathetic losers.
It matters because he is a liar, and anyone who questioned him was ridiculed, including our President-elect.
Barbara Lee thinks?
Who knew!
I apologize that I may have misread your post as saying it doesn’t matter that Barry’s birth was other than what he presented it to be. I now believe that you are saying that even if he were born in Hawaii, he still had too much foreign connection?
They are probably only boycotting because they don’t wan to be there when the chaos goes on that is caused by their own peeps.
bigots
The only way one is NATURALLY a US citizen is when one is born here of citizen parents and there is no alternative, one cannot possibly be anything else.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality(s) of the foreign national parent(s).
They can be something else, therefore they are not NATURALLY US citizens.
Simply being born here is not enough to make one a natural born citizen, otherwise every anchor baby and the recently deceased King of Thailand would be eligible. (born in Cambridge MA)
That is not what the founders had in mind at all.
We're tapping on it, to make sure it's not just stuck on zero.
It's not stuck.
It's really reading ZERO.
“They are probably only boycotting because they don’t wan to be there when the chaos goes on that is caused by their own peeps.”
That would be my call, too. They haven’t spent all this time rousing the rabble to get caught in the middle of things themselves.
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