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Scalise Sounds the Alarm on Speaker Pelosi's Power Grab: It Upends 200 Years of Precedent
Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2020 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 05/16/2020 10:11:59 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

We must defend the second amendment at all costs. Some days I think it’s the only thing keep us from total tyranny.


21 posted on 05/16/2020 11:00:00 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Ann Archy

Also not surprising. In fact, the one thing you can consistently count on is Republican timidity and weakness in the face of power grabs.


22 posted on 05/16/2020 11:02:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: antidemoncrat

Term limits isn’t a panacea. California implemented them in the ‘90s. For about 5 minutes, the GOP got control of the Assembly, and then in 1996, they lost it and the state has peddled to the left of Stalin and Mao ever since.

You’ve got to get rid of the Derp State people backing these revolving door of leftist despots. The armies of bureaucrats employed forever and serving the cause of tyranny. The gubmint union employees that have sucked the state dry.


23 posted on 05/16/2020 11:03:58 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yeah, as K.T. MCFarland said, these permanent fixtures just sit around and say to themselves about any administration, “I was here before you came, and after you leave I’ll still be here.” And they know it’s the truth. So frustrating.


24 posted on 05/16/2020 11:07:45 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GnuThere

I’ve advocated for some time going back to the patronage system. Civil service has only created armies and armies of leftist elites rotting the entire government from within like termites. Bring in your own people at the start of an administration all the way down to janitor, and out they go in 4 or 8 years. No pensions and all that other crap.

Going to work for the government meant a temporary sacrifice for yourself. Now people go there to get rich, permanent benefits and enact a radical agenda and to be permanently insulated from the ups and downs of the economic cycle. This is so far removed from what the Founders wanted. It’s a tyranny that a revolution should’ve been fought over to remove. Trillions of dollars all over this insanity.


25 posted on 05/16/2020 11:14:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Well put.
Govt workers used to sacrifice higher pay for golden benefits and job security, now they have all 3 in an incredibly bloated giant parasite.
DOJ alone > 100K employees. Seriously?


26 posted on 05/16/2020 11:33:42 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: AndyJackson

Agreed. This could not possibly be constitutional. If the critters want to do remote voting from their states, I think that would be okay...but just handing over your vote to the party boss ain’t gonna fly.

The problem is that they’re scared to stay in their states and vote from them because they know that now, especially, most people hate them and would be marching in front of the houses of the Congress critters...if they actually lived and worked there.


27 posted on 05/16/2020 11:42:59 AM PDT by livius
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To: jazusamo

Thank you! Don’t know what I was drinking...ur...thinking.


28 posted on 05/16/2020 11:44:11 AM PDT by moovova (Words are fun.)
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To: moovova

I didn’t know what the vote was either and it took awhile to find the vote for some reason.


29 posted on 05/16/2020 11:52:16 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: GnuThere

And it’s a nice and neat little racket, even at the state level, that you can’t cut or trim anything. If you try, you’ll have a Derper “Judge” order spending and employees reinstated. The Founding Fathers would be crying out to us, “Why haven’t you gotten rid of this tyranny ?”


30 posted on 05/16/2020 11:56:38 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes.


31 posted on 05/16/2020 12:05:58 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: jazusamo

I completely misread the article. Second time today. I hate getting old.


32 posted on 05/16/2020 12:14:22 PM PDT by moovova (Words are fun.)
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To: moovova

I hear ya, but it’s better than the alternative.

Last year about this time I said the definition of old in years is 78 but in a week or so I may reassess that to 79. :^)


33 posted on 05/16/2020 12:30:42 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo
SHE speaks for you!!

R U Worried Yet??

34 posted on 05/16/2020 1:34:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: jazusamo

Happy birthday!


35 posted on 05/16/2020 1:38:37 PM PDT by moovova (Words are fun.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’ve heard that idea before - they also need to stay in DORMITORIES - not hotels - so that all have equal digs for the duration of the session. Then, they won’t have to take bribes to survive in DC.


36 posted on 05/16/2020 1:49:40 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Government Unions. thank you JFK:
Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that recognized the right of federal employees to collective bargaining.

When Democrats enact an executive order no judge can rule it unconstitutional like they do for Pres. Trump.


37 posted on 05/16/2020 2:21:48 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: jazusamo

The Federal Government and most governments in the tree are worthless. The system as designed is fine. The people who run it and abused it need to be purged.


38 posted on 05/16/2020 2:25:10 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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ILLEGAL and UNNEEDED. A criminal swindle in the making.

Proxy ???? SO They can’t Phone it in themselves ?? - BETTER - Video conference the Vote in (as MORE proof that THEY actually cast the ballot themselves)??

Having them actually BE THERE - Its what is proscribed.

Grounds for finding any action taken in such a way as UnConstitutional and thus ILLEGAL and NULL AND VOID.

Pelosi should be removed IMMEDIATELY for even allowing anything like this.

Time for these Crisis-Mongers to face the music for dangerous actions against The People Of The United States and the Constitution.


The Constitutional Reformation Clock ticks another 15 seconds closer to Midnight.

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39 posted on 05/16/2020 2:27:08 PM PDT by elbook
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To: elbook

This is what vote by mail is about.

The queen ant wants proxies from all registered democrats and independents


40 posted on 05/16/2020 5:53:15 PM PDT by Devils_Tower (Harvard FDA spin)
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