Time for Trump to start a new political party for 2018? I wonder if this has ever been done from the White House.
They are assuming imaginary powers now?
I sure hope it was a roll call vote. We need to be able to identify the bad guys. ;>)
Throw them out!
Truthfully, in the long term, this is a good thing. That is, the office of the POTUS is way too powerful, having taken on a lot of powers reserved for congress and the judiciary. So there needs to be a measured return of these powers.
And just because we like the POTUS, it is still the right thing to do. And actually, far more likely to be done with a good POTUS than a bad one.
Here is a good list of changes that need to be made to the power of the POTUS:
1) End the Executive Signing Statement. This is such a very unconstitutional thing that congress needs to outlaw it, and the POTUS needs to challenge it in front of the SCOTUS, in such a way that it is buried in a steel coffin under a lot of concrete.
2) Congress needs to make very strict rules about recess appointments.
3) Presidential proclamations (land grabs), executive orders that are utterly nuts (strict rules), executive memoranda (like the one by outgoing Eisenhower that created the NSA), and very strict and clear rules about executive privilege.
4) Congress needs to clarify and strengthen the War Powers Act, the Posse Comitatus Act, presidential pardons and other lenience, and presidential records.
5) Clarify and strengthen the laws against improper use of FBI files, raw and confirmed, as well as strictly limiting who in the government can order or carry out wiretapping or other surveillance activities.
6) An entirely new law for the prosecution of government employees who use their office to carry out corrupt activities, like Lois Lerner.
7) When executive branch agencies friendly to agitator groups are sued by them, with intent that they only minimally fight the suit, congress should direct the courts to give standing in the suit to other organizations protesting the “sweetheart deal”.
Just appoint a few czars.
Unanimous - McConnell really needs to find a nice cushy civilian job.
We need to make a list...
Don (only his best friends call him Don) should make an appointment and se who wins in court. After all, he has nothing to lose.
What is wrong with those people?
Senate just protecting its right to approve
Trump needs to make some recess appointments if only to prove that he has the Constitutional authority to do so.
#CantorThemAll
VOTE THEM ALL OUT!!!!!
In fwiw dept, somebody has to appear in the Senate (as president pro tem) and do a quorum call. Each day.
And some senators have to show up.
If not, the Senate is officially in recess.
5.56mm
Trump is so in their heads. He’s winning without even lifting a finger.
National FIRE YOUR SENATOR Movement.
Needs to happen. Now.
Sorry for the few good ones who will go out with the bath water, but we need to reassert the fact that WE THE PEOPLE are in charge here.
Grand standing
Wow, gay.
IRRC the courts upheld this tactic when it was used to good effect against Obama.
Thoughts?