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I really fear for my President...Is he being setup?
elleng
(131,176 posts)sequestration. We're ALL being set up.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I really wish the Senate and the President would understand that. The Sequestration could only happen if the Senate and the President agreed with it. There is no mechanism allowing the House to have anything be the final decision. Oh they can yell and screen and shut down the government with assistance from the Senate, but they can't force the Senate or the President to do anything.
elleng
(131,176 posts)sought to make President Obama a one term president, remember that? Filibusters? Aware of the impossibility to enact rational legislation, and to govern without congressional pocketbook okay?
I hope you understand these things.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Tell me again how McConnell forced the Senate to pass Sequestration?
Kingofalldems
(38,489 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)was upset one of the dem panelists brought it up. I think it is the very reason.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Because if there is one, it's got to be the stupidest, most Jethro Bodine / Gomer Pyle plot ever hatched.
Let's see...I'm the Secret Service. I am with the POTUS and his family every day. All the time. Everywhere.
Yet my plot to have the POTUS disappeared is to...what, exactly? Turn my back when some loon jumps the fence?
What?
I'm a rogue Secret Service agent. I have motive, intent, opportunity, and wherewithal. I can achieve this goal
in an instant. No one would suspect a thing, really, because I'm part of a security force that has protected
politicians and high-level diplomats forever. I am heavily armed, as are my comrades, and the people I am sworn
to protect are defenseless.
But in defiance of all of that, and contrary to all common sense, I will simply turn my head when some loon jumps a fence. Because that generates so little focus on me, you see. This MP5 I have under my coat? Why take it out when I can wait patiently
for someone to jump a fence?
Is that how this "setup" is supposed to work? GMAFB.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)is it easier to believe that a whole bunch of Jethros and Gomers are apparently working at protecting the CIC and his family? Hell, Gomer's cousin Goober could be too.
Personally, I don't know what the hell is going on, but someone should be tasked with finding answers.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)The SS is a bunch of unprofessional, careless, complacent losers and they need to be replaced.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)it was already suggested in an article today that Allen West be appointed the job.
AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)some people think everything is a conspiracy. If anything this incident reinforces the official narrative on 9/11 and Katrina. Certain parts of the Federal government are extremely incompetent and it doesn't matter if Democrats or Republicans control the government, the incompetence remains.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)of negligence rather than incompetence.
onenote
(42,778 posts)If the distinction between negligence and incompetence is that the former occurs when someone with the ability to do their job fails to do it while the latter occurs when someone lacks the capacity to do their job, then the failures on the part of the Secret Service, who clearly have the capacity to do their jobs, represent negligence.
Either way, there needs to be a housecleaning to weed out those in the Secret Service who are unable or otherwise fail to perform to the expected standard.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)They were there "watching" him to make sure he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.html
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)Yep
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Anyway, there's nothing funny about murder.
AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)Conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality? Yes that is freaking hilarious. This ranks up there with the 9/11 Loose Change people and those who think Vaccines cause Autism.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)We know the government never lies, apart from COINTELPRO.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Why does it bother you that I try to do what corporate media fails to do?
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)thecrow
(5,519 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)When the hell did that ever happen?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The FBI investigated and attempted to undermine Dr King.