Tag: Congress
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Unchecked
Donald Trump did have guard rails in his first term. Those guard rails are gone. Since the second term, he has started mass deportations, he is sending National Guard troops to cities such as Washington Los Angeles, and now perhaps Chicago, he has destroyed departments such as the CDC and he is even demanding to…
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Did I Say Mess?
Congress gets together on January 3, which is this Friday. The first order of business will be the election of a new house speaker. The Republicans hold a very narrow edge in Congress. They need 218 votes to elect a new speaker Donald Trump, although he has been highly critical of Mike Johnson, has endorsed…
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Goodness No
Just a chirplet today. Woke up this morning to a headline that truth teller George Santos has announced that he will again be running for Congress this Fall. I have no words.
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Please Explain
This is Alejandro Mayorkas. He is Biden’s Homeland Secretary. He was impeached this week by a vote of 214-213. Republicans impeached him because supposedly he was not doing an adequate job on protecting the Southern border. This is very perplexing because the Senate, last week, put a bipartisan agreement to a vote. This agreement would…
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You Are Deplorable
The Senate reached a bipartisan agreement on funding for the border, for Ukraine and for Israel, over the weekend. The agreement includes stiff measures to decrease the flow of illegal immigrants, from South if the border and has a $20 billion price tag to go with it. President Biden had only asked for $14 billion…
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Cards On Table
The game of immigration border poker is reaching new heights with unbelievable stakes at play Immigration has been an issue for years. Neither party, when in power, has been able to solve the issue, mainly due to hard liners on either side, though more so on the Republican side. I still remember Mitt Romney’s solution…
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Three Ring Circus
Republicans had a three ring circus this week In Ring one was the ringmaster himself, Donald Trump. He and his team performed two acts. In Washington, earlier this week, his lawyer at Court of Appeals hearing pretty well said that if. President ordered Seal Team 6 to rub out a political opponent and was not…
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Safe From Trump
When Trump was President, NATO was one of his favourite targets. He would go out of his way to denigrate and diminish the role of NATO. NATO has been a thorn to Trump’s friend, Putin, and there were legitimate concerns that if Trump did win the 2024 election that he would withdraw the US from…
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Trumpism – Here We Are
From CNN Website – Fulton County Sheriff’s Office The Speakership mess, now going on day 20is the perfect example of the Republican Partyturning into the Trump Party. Total paralysis. The White House, under Trump, was a circus for four years. Republican Party ideals were trampled on. Deficits exploded, even before Covid. Remember the one trillion…
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What Next?
Sourced from Thesaurus.com Two big uncertainties loom this week. What will happen in Israel and will a Speaker be put in place? Pessimism surrounds both. Israel has warned over a million people to evacuate the Northern part of Gaza,, given an anticipated ground/sea/air attack. This is logistically impossible. Where will they go? Will the Egyption…