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I Refuse to Lose My Mind Over the Omnibus Fiasco, and So Should You
Townhall.com ^ | March 26, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 03/25/2018 9:08:24 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Helicondelta

A huge portion of this goes to the military who badly needs it. He also has implemented the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as an emergency requirement all funding and has discretion over all funds in this bill. He does not have to spend it on the liberal pork at all.


81 posted on 03/25/2018 10:37:09 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: fortheDeclaration
Neither do they understand politics, what D.C. actually IS like, and don't want to accept reality!

As the Obama supporters, they believe that unicorns really DO and SHALL "fart" jellybeans, gummy bears, cotton candy, and a life sans any problems.

82 posted on 03/25/2018 10:38:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Agreed. This is going to be a long war and we will suffer some reverses.

But finally we have a leader who will fight.

History shows how many wanted to get rid of Washington for losing battles and Lincoln for not getting the right general.

83 posted on 03/25/2018 10:41:03 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Spot on and I agree completely!

Sadly, far to many people neither know nor care about factual history. Thanks for posting what you did.

84 posted on 03/25/2018 10:44:00 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Kaslin; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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85 posted on 03/25/2018 10:46:16 PM PDT by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Kartographer
You shouldn’t criticize Trump on this not if you plan to stay on FR. Believe my I know.

Bullsh!t. Stop engaging in propaganda!

The real situation is this: you shouldn’t criticize Trump on this bill and additionally declare yourself a #NeverTrumper!

And saying that you no longer support the President (moving forward) is tantamount to declaring yourself a #NeverTrumper, understood?

I'm glad we could have this talk. If you still support President Trump, I daresay you're welcome on FR.

If instead you b-tch, moan, groan, and—like a #NeverTrump troll—snottily announce that you no longer can support the President, then you may find the welcome mat yanked out from under you.

So "don't be a scum-sucking #NeverTrumper who doesn't support the President moving forward" would be my heartfelt advice to you.

This has been the clear paradigm since before November of 2016. Nothing has changed regarding the site policing guidelines, as far as I'm aware—written and unwritten—and I'd suggest that you don't push the envelope.

Personally, I think that JimRob does an exemplary job at keeping this forum focused. I wholeheartedly endorse his judgement. And supporting President Trump—especially against the backdrop on a pervasive, ongoing Deep State coup attempt—remains an integral part of that focus.

If you aren't on board with that, to the point where you no longer support the President, then—with all due respect—step off!

Disagreeing with individual decisions made by the President is fine. Doing so to the point of dropping your support for him—that is, being a #NeverTrump troll—is categorically not fine.

There are plenty of sites you can go to to indulge in #NeverTrump masturbation. FR isn't one of them...

86 posted on 03/25/2018 10:46:26 PM PDT by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: sargon

LOL See


87 posted on 03/25/2018 10:50:17 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: nopardons

“It’s almost as bad as DU, on some threads.”

It gets pretty bad during election year. They crawl out like cockroaches trying to disrupt conversation. They’re on a fools errand because they will never change a single mind. Some liberals may turn conservative after they grow up or start earning money of their own but the chances of a real conservative turning liberal is slim to none.


88 posted on 03/25/2018 10:54:31 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: nopardons
You’re a political naif who doesn’t understand the ramifications of a Veto and then have that Veto over ridden; which it absolutely WOULD have been.

I cannot see the downside of that. Had he vetoed the OSB and Congress overturned it, we would be at the same place we are now, but with all of his support intact, yet with an exponential increase in support for his principled stance. With the resounding support the GOPe would be destroyed, hoisted on their own petard. By October he would have a new bill to build the wall, a strong military and the winning wave of Conservative Republicans assured in November.

As it is now, it looks like a Bleak House and Senate.

89 posted on 03/25/2018 10:57:53 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 1035rep
Usually ONLY during presidential primary and then election years. Then FR used to settle down again.

Sadly, the #NEVRTRUMPERS are still at it. :-(

And then there are the damned "PURISTS", who are NEVER satisfied by anyone nor anything!

90 posted on 03/25/2018 11:00:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I should have mentioned those. They’ll be here pounding away until President Trump has finished his second term.

President Trump deals with this BS everyday and look what he has accomplished in such a short period of time.


91 posted on 03/25/2018 11:07:49 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: nopardons
Re: “Hold his feet to the fire? Oh yeah...as IF you whiners can actually DO anything like that! LOL.”

You're losing your memory, no-par.

In 2005, Free Republic crushed the Bush-McCain Amnesty and the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination.

You were on site every day in 2005 explaining why our efforts were hopeless, and why the Republican Party would collapse unless we supported everything that Bush Two wanted.

In 2005, I suspected you were a center-left Republican who supported Amnesty and most of the Democrat Party agenda.

In 2018, I'm absolutely sure of that.

92 posted on 03/25/2018 11:11:04 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: allendale
He has lost at least 1/3 of his core support

Reeking bullsh!t.

Trump has lost no support—except for a few latent #NeverTumpers who are constantly looking for reasons to leave.

But 1/3? Put the crack pipe down.

Anyone who would end their support for President Trump for signing a 6-month spending bill—in the midst of a coup attempt by the Deep State—is either a #NeverTrump troll at heart, or else a completely naivé armchair quarterback who can't be taken seriously.

The President needs no "sunshine patriot" supporters. Fortunately, such "supporters" can be counted on a couple of hands.

As for that "1/3 of his core support" that the President has lost—a wet dream which exposes whoever suggested it as a latent #NeverTrumper—whatever the miniscule figure might actually be, there are plenty of sites on the internet where such ilk can go indulge in gratuitous #NeverTrump masturbation. I daresay that FR isn't one of them. But I could be wrong.

93 posted on 03/25/2018 11:11:10 PM PDT by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: higgmeister
You've been a long time, but haven't managed to learn anything about politics here.

Had Trump; vetoed this POS Bill and then had that veto overturned, Trump would have been well and truly F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D/over/done! He would be labeled as "weak", stupid, and far worse! And that's not all...many of the wobblies would either have stayed home ( far more than probably shall do, come November ) and NEVER bothered to vote ever again.

You ARE a political naif.

President Reagan, the "true CONSERVATIVE" and an hero of Conservatism to most here, if not all of us, "caved" on many things and did NOT have to face the same level of hostility, FROM HIS OWN TEAM AND PARTY, as Trump has; not to mention all of the constant garbage from the MSM, Dems ( not all of whom were as stupid and insane as that group in Congress is now ! )and neither was he suffering through an "investigation" of his and his family's entire lives.

Your post if filled to the brim with specious assumptions, day dreams, and puerlie pie-in-the-sky imaginings.

And HELL NO (!), the GOP does NOT face "....a Bleak House ( have you ever read Dicken's BLEAK HOUSE? The way you posted that, made me think of that novel, NOT quite what you meant though...I realized in the next second, but you should NEVER have capitalized the word "bleak"! ) and Senate"!

Stop swallowing, as whole cloth, MSM and GOPE propaganda!

94 posted on 03/25/2018 11:14:18 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Some people are never satisfied. I had a cranky neighbor not so long ago. He bitched and moaned if he thought your grass was to long then bitch if you mowed it twice a week, then bitch some more if you mowed it while he was watching a game. Some people just can’t be satisfied.


95 posted on 03/25/2018 11:14:25 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: 1035rep

Unfortunately, yes they shall be, unless some of them get the all powerful “ZOT”.


96 posted on 03/25/2018 11:15:24 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: 1035rep

You know when people are killing babies and selling their parts and the country is another trillion in debt, and high end traitors who tried to kidnap an election and worse roam free, maybe you shouldn’t criticize people for NOT being SATISFIED. The question isn’t why are they not it is WHY ARE YOU.


97 posted on 03/25/2018 11:17:50 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: zeestephen
You're out of your teensy mind and your memory is rotten!

I was NEVER one of the droolers, who claimed that Bush 2.0 could do no wrong. Neither have I EVER been for amnesty of ANY kind! Hell, I'm against giving the damned DACAs anything at all...I want them deported!

"LEFT OF CENTER" ?

Me?

I'm probably farther RIGHT than you are; not to mention better informed, far more knowledgeable about politics and history, and am able to see reality.

You and your ilk, here, had NOTHING whatsoever to do with Bush ditching Miers and the arguments that some you you made, back then, were laughable.

98 posted on 03/25/2018 11:23:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: raiderboy

The greatest attack since 9/11 is our inteigence agencies spying on a campaign they didn’t agree with.
Try to keep up or keep out of the way.


99 posted on 03/25/2018 11:25:22 PM PDT by Equine1952 (move your ass workin man coming through)
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To: xzins

The lack of a set of cahones precludes the folks Trump has to deal with from electing new leadership.
I fear our lady reps are the only one with any testosterone.
The fight is in our state primaries.


100 posted on 03/25/2018 11:25:23 PM PDT by Equine1952 (we came. We saw. Then they went to recess.)
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