Posted on 03/27/2020 8:54:40 AM PDT by yardboyd
Massie’s behavior takes the heat off of Nancy Pelosi’s delay of the bill and the fact that the House has been on recess for a week or maybe two weeks prior to this. They were not even in Washington during a crisis. Republicans do not seem to know when to choose their battles.
In the world maybe. Plus, with a good part of the population not driving, we're saving lives that would otherwise have been lost in travel. Injuries too, and some of those take up hospital resources.
I don’t agree with the bill and I don’t agree with this clown stunt which changes nothing. I have no problem with him expressing his position through his vote like everyone else.
Which is precisely what I said of you as well.
I have my principles which have served me well throughout my life and I have prospered following them.
Just because I don’t live up to your personal standards does not imply I am bereft of any myself, does it? I hope you truly understand my meaning.
To me a quorum is have both root volumes available while attempting to boot the operating system.
The political version I have a vague notion of, but I truly don’t care about the technical definition or “nuances”. Perhaps I do have a good enough notion of what it means, but “I Just Don’t Give A Shit” in this scenario.
If that’s unprincipled, so be it.
Quorum is the notion that some fraction of the deciders be present when a decision is made. The constitution says half the House needs to be present for the House to do business. Boards of directors have quorums, church councils have quorums. It isn’t that EVERYBODY has to be there, just enough of them. It’s not a political thing, it’s Roberts Rules of Order, procedural thing. Like “majority rules” isn’t political.
To riff from your example, some sort of booting would be allowed to happen when only one of the volumes is present. Or half of a volume even.
The House formally declared that 216 or more members were present. It did so without showing the work.
I don’t expect them to tell the truth.
Mr. President: As one of your loyal supporters I would ask you and the others to listen to what Rep. Massie has to say."
Yep!
There should be a picture of who was present somewhere. Count the members present. I bet there wasn’t a quorum. Why would they not lie to us...such dishonesty frequently occurs?
“I don’t expect them to tell the truth.”
Amen!
Massie spoke on the Rush show today. I consider him a hero , grandstander or not.
It’s 100 auto deaths per day.
Sorry the quote was for Global as per WHO,
“Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day.”
The USA number is “Over 37,000 people die in road crashes each year” from The Association for Safe International Road Travel,
asirt.org
You are correct, seems the County Sheriff that was on the radio this morning didn’t make that clear. I stand corrected, thank you.
That's the whole point! He COULDN't express his position because it was a "voice vote". These cowards didn't want to be on record voting for this atrocity. That's why he did this.
“These cowards didn’t want to be on record voting for this atrocity”
Huh? The Senate passed it 96-0, the House passed it and then Trump upon signing it said it “was an honor to sign it”. If it was so bad why did Trump sign it?
Earlier Trump said this about Massie “Looks like a third rate Grandstander named @RepThomasMassie, a Congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT State, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress. He just wants the publicity. He can’t stop it, only delay, which is both dangerous......
..& costly. Workers & small businesses need money now in order to survive. Virus wasn’t their fault. It is “HELL” dealing with the Dems, had to give up some stupid things in order to get the “big picture” done. 90% GREAT! WIN BACK HOUSE, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!”
Let's pass it so we can see what's in it. There's so much in it that's utterly worthless. We're a nation that is over 23 trillion in debt and we've just squandered the future of our country....thanks to the Chinese and the congressional fools.
I predict another bureaucracy will be requred to administer this hoax.
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