Posted on 03/26/2018 8:03:29 AM PDT by V K Lee
Strategery!
Bump!
Politics is the art of the possible. Merely having a majority in congress doesn’t guarantee getting all of your agenda through, any more than having a speedometer that goes to 160 means that the care can go that fast. The Democrats found this out about a decade ago.
So it could have been even worse. Pretty weak defense.
killing Obamacare repeal
Simply false - no Obamacare repeal bill was ever debated much less voted on.
You did notice the vote totals? A veto would of been overridden.
People sitting in the stands have the luxury of playing Monday Morning quarterback. People on the field do not.
Well, the Cloud Act was passed so you can kiss your 4th Amendment Rights good-bye.
What a bloody claptrap to defend the indefensible.
There was no deal with this abomination bill, much “less art of the deal”.
Merely having a majority in congress doesnt guarantee getting all of your agenda through
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Especially true when Republicans are in control. They are all talk and no action.
They want our votes and our money but not our beliefs and convictions.
Show me where I said otherwise.
If the article had stopped at your point, no debate - instead, it went further to make weak and false arguments, as I pointed out.
Then you can’t criticize GWB for his big government. Bush didn’t have a filibuster proof senate.
Could have been worse is a very weak defense. This bill as written was a total sellout. Yes the military get desperately needed help but it was wrapped with Rat demands. It is exactly what youd get from a Dem congress. Make Trump eat bunch of BS to get the military help. The ban on
any new wall is just too much mention stripping out funding for border enforcement personnel.
“A veto would of been overridden.”
“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need”
M. Jagger/ K. Richards
Played after every Trump rally speech, and not by accident.
People sitting in the stands have the luxury of playing Monday Morning quarterback.
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A team should try to score points. Winning requires a combination of a good offense and defense. The GOP has neither.
GOP leadership had a long time to get this bill through the process but they ginned this thing up behind closed doors and then waited until just before the long congressional recess to spring it on members of congress who had no time to read it.
This isn’t how you play the game. They threw the game to the other side — whose fans are now cheering wildy in the stands.
+1. Good comment. This bill was of, by and for the Swamp, and they would have owned it.
I realize we desperately needed to increase defense spending. But Ryan and company gave the Dems pretty much everything they wanted. No excuse for that.
Swell. “new powers granted to the attorney general, who can enter into agreements with foreign countries unilaterally. Those agreements could potentially circumvent the protections of US courts. The act also wouldnt require users or local governments to be notified when a data request is made, making meaningful oversight significantly harder.” - https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17131004/cloud-act-congress-omnibus-passed-mlat
So in other words the President is supposed to sign off on any piece of crap budget bill, no matter how high the resulting deficit, no matter how much pork is in it, just because it has defense money in it?
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Interesting tidbit...Watched the liberal media Sunday shows and they weren’t talking about the budget..You would think they would crow about their win...Instead,silence
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