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...Morning Joe guest sounds the alarm on GOP letting Trump seize dictatorial powers (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2019 OP
the problem is, GOP does't care when "their guy" does it and why we must make them pay beachbum bob Feb 2019 #1
He has it right. lark Feb 2019 #2
Who is the real culprit? Huin Feb 2019 #3
My Democratic Problem With Voting for Hillary Clinton ..... By EDDIE S. GLAUDE, JR OnDoutside Feb 2019 #4
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. the problem is, GOP does't care when "their guy" does it and why we must make them pay
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:40 AM
Feb 2019

in 2020 and 2022.


Pelosi will be well in her bounds to discuss Articles of Impeachment based on the abuse of emergency power by a president on an issue that is NOT an emergency what so ever. The constitution does not not limit the number of times Articles of Impeachment can be voted on and passed to the senate for trial.

I hope to hear democrats in the house to start saying this in next week or 2.

lark

(23,156 posts)
2. He has it right.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:43 AM
Feb 2019

We are in the middle of a constitutional crisis when the president usurps the power of the pocketbook from Congress and Repugs are totally ok with this.

I think it's also a constitutional crisis when a traitor selects 2 people for SCOTUS, along with a gun crisis, a voting safety crisis, a climate change crisis and a traitorous so-called president who stole the office with the help of Russia. Those are the real crisis, not the drumpf has to buy Russian steel to please his master pretend crisis.

Huin

(92 posts)
3. Who is the real culprit?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 11:53 AM
Feb 2019

Of course, the president with his megalomaniac tendencies cannot pass up a power that is handed to him on a platter by the senate majority leader. It is he, in the senate, who denied President Obama the right to appoint a supreme court justice. It is he, in the senate, who caused the shutdown by failing to pass a bipartisan bill to vote because the president would not sign it. He thereby protected the president from vetoing a bill that would have allowed the people's absolute right to keep our government functioning. Then the president would have been the culprit. The constitution provides for presenting a bill voted on by both houses for his signature. By running to the president and asking him if he would sign the bill, and then not passing it to a vote, the leader of the senate, the way I see it, violated the doctrine of separation of powers. Not only does this man in the senate forsake the majority of the people, he shames the United State before the rest of the world.

Why is there no effort to impeach the real culprit?

OnDoutside

(19,972 posts)
4. My Democratic Problem With Voting for Hillary Clinton ..... By EDDIE S. GLAUDE, JR
Tue Feb 19, 2019, 05:26 AM
Feb 2019

Howdya like her now, Eddie ????

I am not voting for Hillary Clinton, regardless of her endorsement by Bernie Sanders. My decision isn’t because of the scandal around her emails or because of some concern over her character. My reasons are pretty straightforward. I don’t agree with her ideologically.

Democratic values centered on economic and racial justice shape my own politics. I’m not convinced those values shape hers. Nothing Clinton says or intends to do if elected will fundamentally transform the circumstances of the most vulnerable in this country—even with her concessions to the Sanders campaign. Like the majority of Democratic politicians these days, she is a corporate Democrat intent on maintaining the status quo. And I have had enough of all of them.

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I am not suggesting that anti-racism or anti-sexism (or identity politics generally) don’t matter. But they can’t provide cover for business as usual—a version of neoliberalism dressed in multicultural Chanel.

Perhaps the most persuasive reason to vote for Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump. Trump is worse. I know that. The prospects of a Trump presidency—what would be a deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance—ought to frighten anyone. It frightens me. But my daddy, a gruff man who has lived all of his life on the coast of Mississippi, taught me that fear should never be the primary motivation of my actions. It clouds your thinking, and all too often sends you running to either safe ground when something more daring is required, or smack into the danger itself. (I learned a similar lesson after reading William Faulkner’s “The Bear” in Go Down Moses.)

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In the end, Donald Trump is just an exaggerated indication of the rot that is at the heart of this country. That fact of Trump alone, and the democratic anguish that goes with it, cannot be the only rationale to support Hillary Clinton. Something more substantive is required of us—of her.

Many, despite what I’ve written, will still vote for Clinton. I do not fault them—especially if they live in a hotly contested state like Ohio or Florida. Vote for Clinton to keep Trump out of office. I completely understand that. But I can’t vote for her.


http://time.com/4402823/glaude-hillary-clinton/
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