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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 07:58 AM Jan 2019

You got what you wanted, Don. SHE'S BACK FROM HAWAII. Have a nice 2019.



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/heres-nancy-pelosis-plan-corner-trump-trap-mitch-mcconnell-using-legislation/

As it turns out, Pelosi has the perfect plan to trap Trump and the Senate GOP.

On Wednesday, flanked by incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Pelosi told reporters the first thing her House would do:

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Nancy Pelosi: "Tomorrow we will bring to the floor legislation that will open up government. It will be based on actions taken by the Republican Senate … led by Senator Mitch McConnell." Via ABC.




In other words, Pelosi plans to introduce and pass the same funding bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shepherded through the Senate by voice vote two weeks ago — which happens to not include funding for Trump’s wall!

By passing this bill in the Senate but blocking it in the House on Trump’s order, Republicans boxed themselves in. They cannot easily claim that their own bill they just voted for in the Senate is soft on border security. Nor can they pin the blame on Pelosi for not retaking up the alternative House bill that included Trump’s wall funding, because that bill was rejected by the Senate.
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You got what you wanted, Don. SHE'S BACK FROM HAWAII. Have a nice 2019. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2019 OP
So far the only loser is Trump. Nancy was on the beach and he was eating KFC on the couch. LOL. Vinca Jan 2019 #1
". . . they can't"?? marybourg Jan 2019 #2
Hypocrisy doesn't seem to matter....n/t ewagner Jan 2019 #4
Brilliant...let's play politics, donnie... N_E_1 for Tennis Jan 2019 #3
I know I am off subject - but Timmygoat Jan 2019 #6
I love it. I cried the first time I heard it. Mars and Minerva Jan 2019 #18
McConnell is the one we need to go after. watoos Jan 2019 #5
I'm with 'ya! MyOwnPeace Jan 2019 #7
Yes, someone wrote a blog yesterday on DU about that Perseus Jan 2019 #8
McConnell knew Scarsdale Jan 2019 #9
No doubt. volstork Jan 2019 #11
Exactly. Scarsdale Jan 2019 #13
Agreed...n/t bluecollar2 Jan 2019 #14
check & mate in one move scarytomcat Jan 2019 #10
Excellent! calimary Jan 2019 #12
It was the obvious move. Schumer is probably chuckling the whole day long grantcart Jan 2019 #15
Speaker Pelosi will be kicking butt. gademocrat7 Jan 2019 #16
Trump will sign the Senate bill and lie like he always does and say it contains the 5.6 billion Pepsidog Jan 2019 #17

marybourg

(12,639 posts)
2. ". . . they can't"??
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 08:53 AM
Jan 2019

I just heard their spokesperson on NPR doing just that. Clearly they say anything they want to. There is no "can't" for tRump and his cult.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,786 posts)
3. Brilliant...let's play politics, donnie...
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:10 AM
Jan 2019

Oh... right...you don’t know how...to quote you donnie, “sad”.

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
6. I know I am off subject - but
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:26 AM
Jan 2019

Would love you all to hear the recording of 'One last time' by the cast of Hamilton and Barak Obama, it is great and perhaps if enough people try hard we could get it up on the charts, it would make Trump's head explode.

Mars and Minerva

(369 posts)
18. I love it. I cried the first time I heard it.
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:46 AM
Jan 2019

It's not really off the subject because it reminds Americans what it means to be POTUS and why it's important that, even the most powerful people, owe their allegiance to the country and it's people.

We are going to get a chance to see the complete opposite play out in front of our eyes so it's good to be reminded of how things should be.

Nancy and the Dems taking back the House is Act2.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
5. McConnell is the one we need to go after.
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:25 AM
Jan 2019

McConnell is the gate keeper, he violated the Constitution by not giving Merrick Garland a hearing. He should be hammered by the M$M why he won't bring House passed legislation up for a vote in the Senate. We need to keep the pressure on McConnell and GOP/Trump Senators, especially those Senators who are up for reelection in 2020.

If Pelosi's bill gets put up for a vote in the Senate, it will pass. Will Trump veto it? I think not, if he does, he is finished.

MyOwnPeace

(16,940 posts)
7. I'm with 'ya!
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:46 AM
Jan 2019

McTurtle has been #1 on my "hit list" ever since he did the Garland robbery. EVERY time he does another denial of the public's will the MSM needs to be thorough and point out exactly where the problem is - Mitch "the Bitch" McTurtle!

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
8. Yes, someone wrote a blog yesterday on DU about that
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:50 AM
Jan 2019

Enough about the orange buffoon, each republican enabler must be addressed in public, their masks must be removed, they are more guilty than the buffoon who only knows how to crap through his mouth, but he doesn't understand policy, or anything for that matter, he is just a decoy and that has to be shown to the country...mind you, I don't say the World because the World already knows that, it is the illiterates from the USA who do not understand.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
9. McConnell knew
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:50 AM
Jan 2019

the "fix" was in from Russia long before it became public. Remember he said "The NEXT president will fill the Supreme Court vacancy" He knew who that would be. Traitor, who took lots of $$$$ from Russia.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
13. Exactly.
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:30 AM
Jan 2019

I saw a photo of the entire cabinet around the table. I was surprised Mrs. McConnell was sitting in a chair. I thought for sure she would be under the table, servicing tRump to keep both their jobs, Mitch's and hers.

calimary

(81,523 posts)
12. Excellent!
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:29 AM
Jan 2019

We have a Grand Master chess player stepping into the leadership. They’ve got squat with orange skin and a fake hair style.

Let the games begin.

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
17. Trump will sign the Senate bill and lie like he always does and say it contains the 5.6 billion
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 10:37 AM
Jan 2019

he was asking for. Fox will declare Trump victorious and the lemmings who watch Fox will accept the lie as truth.

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