AP Interview: McConnell rejects Trump's foreign aid cuts

Associated Press ^ | Mar 21, 2017 3:02 PM EDT | Erica Werner

[publius911]

Is he willing to shut down the government to keep it?

Which "he" brainiac?

[libertylover]

I’m proud to say that I voted against McConnell in the primary a couple of years ago. His opponent is not the Governor of Kentucky.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

It’s an “Art of the Deal” thing

[AnotherUnixGeek]

“America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department,” McConnell said.

So McConnell thinks America being a force is about handing US taxpayer dollars over to foreign governments?

[timestax]

[keving]

He's a little late to object to the President in the last 8 years. This is why business as usual is not accepted, C. 👍

[manc]

I am sick of the disrespect too, but by both sides. Now saying that the Dem party never once bolted , or went against obama. These turds in the GOP have a massive ego and still not get what we want.
I swear my heart is pumping like mad right now as i type this

[publius911]

McConnell said. “Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don’t think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective — and certainly cheaper — than military engagement.”

McConnell, you ignorant senile slut!Name ONE instance in your miserable lifetime where diplomacy permanently eliminated an ongoing physical war or civil conflict which already has created tens of thousands of innocent victims directly and indirectly?

[conservaKate]

“POTUS needs to invite Bernie to the White House to discuss “campaign finance reform”. That would be an excellent shot across their bow that should keep them onside and playing for Team Trump.”

That would indeed be shot across the bow .... but I’m mean, Bernie crazy uncle Bernie to the White House? That’s asking a lot from the POTUS.

[Olog-hai]

I don’t buy that executive discretion canard especially when it excuses liberal spending. Faithful execution of the laws does not entail entertaining a chief executive’s whim, but within the bounds of law. Same goes for Congress in its appropriation of money.

[Thank You Rush]

“”because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective””

Good golly - just name one time, Mitch. We don’t need “many times” - just one will do. PLEASE!!! What on earth is the payoff for any senator to think millions going to foreign aid is appropriate? Are his constituents in agreement with giving OUR MONEY away to foreign countries? He’s sure not advocating it to impress his voters.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Didn’t I just read here that all of these aholes think America is the “laughstock” of the world? Probably because we’re the only ones dumb enough to give taxpayer dollars away to America-hating foreigners. You can’t fix stupid.

[Dave W]

And Congress funds the foreign policy. Trump's budget is a starting point. It won't look that way at the end of the process because Congress has their input.

Trump knows the final product won't reflect what was proposed. Congress will split the difference, more or less, and next year Trump will cut a little more and the same the year after that. That is how it works. It still will be better than what it is at the moment.

[SharpRightTurn]

Trump should insist upon the cuts to the foreign welfare McConnell wants or keep vetoing the funding bill until McConnell caves or Trump is overridden.

Truth be told, these guys like McConnell don’t want to cut anything.

[acapesket]

Apparently Bitch did not get the message that Trump was in Louisville last night.
The Turtle truly is THAT dense!
Amazing.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Olog-hai. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"McConnell rejects Trump's foreign aid cuts"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regarding foreign aid, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. McConnell unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to appropriate taxes in the name of foreign aid.

In fact, Justice Joseph Story had clariifed that Congress cannot use the General Welfare Clause (1.8.1) as an excuse to justify foreign aid.

”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.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.

• “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.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”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.

[Olog-hai]

McConnell is a big-government “New Republican” in the mold of people like Arthur Larson. He already spoke against getting rid of the Appalachian Regional Commission, which was created by LBJ and is mentioned as a candidate for being cut in Trump’s budget.

[Reily]

The Appalachian Regional Commission is a spigot where Appalachian politicians both Rat and GOP hand out money to their pals. It does little for the region. McConnell wants to keep the spigot turned on!

[RummyChick]

The CIA/NSA dirt on him.

They have the details on his wife’s shipping company. Seems like there was some controversy with it.

[RummyChick]

Before the Ping May, a rusty cargo vessel, could disembark from the port of Santa Marta en route to the Netherlands in late August, Colombian inspectors boarded the boat and made a discovery. Hidden in the ship’s chain locker, amidst its load of coal bound for Europe, were approximately 40 kilograms, or about ninety pounds, of cocaine. A Colombian Coast Guard official told The Nation that there is an ongoing investigation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/