Posted on 10/02/2025 7:42:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The rats’ bench is so thin, Jeffries is the best they could come up with to replace Nancy. Who will be the new Senate Minority Leader?
EC
“So I think Sen. Schumer understands the gravity of this moment.”
But does he have any cards, does he have any Seinfeldian “hand”???
‘tis a consummation, devoutly to be wished . . . (:P)
“A lot of people wondered whether we would be bullied again, and we have not been,” said Sen. Christopher Murphy, Connecticut Democrat.
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What? Such ridiculous language.
Schumer needs his dunce cap on.
Schumer needs his dunce cap on.
Dunce caps w/ engraved Senate insignia, available at the Senate gift shop....snx.
Sombreros with FREEDOM shirts - the attire of young college students going out on the town this weekend.
Yep, that’s NY for you. Keep voting Democrat when all the previous D leaders have failed.
Agree
Instead of just furloughing the workforce until the shutdown is resolved, Trump is using the shutdown to execute the parts of the US Code and federal regulations that get triggered due to "lack of funds."
The problem for Democrats and the courts is that these are laws and regulations that were duly passed by Congress that the President is "taking care to faithfully execute" during the crisis that was initiated by Congress' willful act of declining to fund the government. It was not President Trump's actions that caused the shutdown, so he can't be found by the courts to be acting arbitrarily and capriciously in how he's dealing with the emergency.
There is no tenet in the law that says that the President must choose the "least harmful" or the "gentlest option" when dealing with crisis that he didn't create. Any claims of "arbitrary and capricious" relies on an expectation of explaining the reasons for why a particular option was chosen, but this rigor is usually deferred when dealing with a time-sensitive crisis. The shutdown can be seen as a sort of proverbial "ticking time-bomb" scenario where the President doesn't have the luxury of time to consider the pros or cons of various alternatives to the court's satisfaction.
The President has discretionary power to react to the shutdown as he pleases, since it was not created by any arbitrary decision on his part.
-PJ
Schumer hopefully get NOTHING.
That's a big "IF" if we look at the history of the GOP.
All too true.
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