I have some personal business I have to attend to this afternoon, so this will be somewhat brief. There have been several House Republicans who have complained that the Democrats are forcing them to vote on President Trump’s border emergency declaration without giving them time to read the resolution. On Monday, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Rules, went on National Public Radio and said he’s concerned about “the haste with which the majority is pushing this disapproval resolution through. We’ve had no time to review the bill and no committee has held a hearing or marked it up.”
Here’s the language of the resolution, as provided by Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii.
Resolved (Senate and House) in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622), the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on February 15, 2019, in Proclamation 9844 (84 Fed. Reg. 4949) is hereby terminated.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 26, 2019
Yes, it fits in a tweet.
In truth, Sen. Schatz cheated a little with those parentheses. Here’s the full text:
JOINT RESOLUTION
Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622), the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on February 15, 2019, in Proclamation 9844 (84 Fed. Reg. 4949) is hereby terminated.
So, how long did it take you to read that? Do you think they need to hold a hearing so a committee can mark it up?
The Republicans treat people like they are morons because they believe we are all morons. If you want more proof, look over at what happened Tuesday in the Senate:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested on the Senate floor Tuesday morning that Democrats were to blame for a recent case of substantial election fraud in North Carolina that benefited a GOP House candidate…
…“We were hit with left-wing talking points insisting that voter fraud wasn’t real. Never happens, they said. Well, that fraud just didn’t happen, that modest efforts to ensure that voters who are who they say they are and are voting in the proper place were really some sinister right-wing plot to prevent people from voting,” McConnell said. “So now, as you might expect, now that an incident of very real voter fraud has become national news and the Republican candidate seems ― seems ― to have benefited, these long-standing Democratic talking points have been really quiet.”
It doesn’t get any more disingenuous than that. The fraud in North Carolina was perpetrated on the voters, not by them. Republican operatives took Democrats’ absentee ballots and threw them in the trash. In other cases, they promised to fill them out for the voters and then checked the boxes for Republican candidates.
There is no depth the modern GOP won’t plumb in their pursuit of an advantage.
But wait! There’s more! (When it comes to Republiclowns, there’s always more!)
Don’t forget the jokers in the House.
Sorry-careless–I meant other jokers.
One could be forgiven for thinking they were all contestants in a “Who Can Be The Biggest Public Douche?” competition.
Isn’t McConnell talking of bringing the Green New Deal to the Senate for a vote without the customary hearings, markup, debate, etc., just to screw with the Dems?
He is truly evil.
. . . in order to seize, hold, and (especially, I think, in his case) wield power. Most especially, wield power over Dems. Gets his rocks off on the last one, I’m convinced. I don’t get the impression he really cares all that much about the agenda or ideology. It’s about winning and, especially, his opponent losing. Winning would be hollow without a loser. He’s a sick fuck.
I read somewhere else but am too lazy to check on it that Mitch McConnell is blaming the NC voter fraud on Democrats. It sure wouldn’t surprise me if he said that on Fake Noise. No doubt the blonde bobbleheads on Fox and “Friends” are saying something to that effect.
Which bill was it that Republicans kept under lock and key, so that Democrats couldn’t read it early in the Trump Admin? Was it the Tax Bill? Or the Bill to Repeal ACA? There was something about a secret location and locked doors.
The Ratpublicans will stoop as a low as they can go, and then they’ll dig even deeper to lie, cheat, steal, plunder and pillage to getting what they want.
It’s disgusting but to be expected. If Big D isn’t prepared: SHAME on them. Really. This is nothing new.
The cspan video snippet is stashed in this WP link
I swear I saw those gas lights blink!
Just stating that the “emergency” is terminated implies that it was legitimate and actions taken between it’s declaration and termination were lawful.
Gutless wonders aiding and abetting the destruction of the Constitution.
. . . most illogical, most ridiculous thing you’ve ever written here.
And THAT’s sayin’ sumthin’!
In your heart you know they’re right.
A good portion of our populace are either morons, or they’re just too overworked and tired to pay attention to what we’ve all come to realize is an organized sh*t show.
Republican voters don’t care bc: Libs Owned!
I was wondering about this:
Who are these people who give up their ballots to let others, not part of their trusted circle of family and friends, fill it and submit it for them?
Do we have the market on the stupidest people in the world?
Actually they are admitting voter fraud. That they gave something of value in exchange for a ballot that they filled out themselves.
I wonder if a cop will shoot them 16 times, nine in the back?
Suvro, you support voter fraud?
I don’t.
But instead of my main argument – the inherent stupidity of the people who let others take their ballots – you focused on something completely different. Of course the Republicans are perpetrating voter fraud. But that was not what I had asked.
That is why I troll rated you.
Sayin’ it again: Their actual agenda and actions consign Banana Republicans to permanent minority status in a functioning democracy. But they like wielding power (and never more so than when wielding it to pwn the libs). So. They. Cheat.