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115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

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FlagDUDE08 said:
Watch out, War Powers Act is back on the table... https://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-warns-new-us-war-powers-act-will-rubber-stamp-global-conflict/
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Not a problem. The Super Male Vitality potion is still 50% off, and the "super advanced vitamin B-12 with the Infowars Life Secret 12 proprietary formula" is still available if you act now.

Those Globalists can't get you if you buy more, flaggy.
 
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SJHovey said:
No, that's why I referenced the retirements/resignations.

While I don't think resignations/retirements of current members is some grand plan on the part of the GOP (at this point I doubt that group can come up with a grand plan), it should be. In election districts where the GOP stronghold is impenetrable, in spite or because of Trump, run the incumbent. In all others I'd want to see a retirement/resignation. The Republican nominee can then do exactly what the Democratic nominee will do -- run against Trump, or at the very least put a lot of distance between yourself and him.
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If the GOP could do that sort of thing, they wouldn't have a Freedom Caucus hamstringing them.
 
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Running against the President of your own party never works if you're a Congresscritter. Besides all primaries are dominated by Trump lovin' nutters so you'd never make it to the nomination.
 
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Rover said:
I don't see how McCaskill and Donnelly pull off those races.
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Donnelly has an uphill battle for sure, but I don't think you can write off that seat yet. The primary focus is his vote on the tax bill. I haven't seen any of the republican candidates mention it yet, but I see at least one FB ad a day, whether it is from some group admonishing him for "voting against hard working Hoosiers" or from Donnelly himself about why he voted against it.

For comparison sake, Republican Todd Young was elected with 52.1% (about 250,000 votes, I think) of the vote in 2016.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">11 House Republicans are calling on Attorney General Sessions to prosecute (in no particular order):<br><br>-Hillary Clinton<br>-James Comey<br>-Andrew McCabe<br>-Sally Yates<br>-Loretta Lynch<br>-Peter Strzok<br>-Lisa Page<br>-Dana Boente<br><br>Their letter: <a href="https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA">https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA</a></p>— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/986608275578937344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Handyman said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">11 House Republicans are calling on Attorney General Sessions to prosecute (in no particular order):<br><br>-Hillary Clinton<br>-James Comey<br>-Andrew McCabe<br>-Sally Yates<br>-Loretta Lynch<br>-Peter Strzok<br>-Lisa Page<br>-Dana Boente<br><br>Their letter: <a href="https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA">https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA</a></p>— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/986608275578937344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I have to say I'm somewhat surprised the Justice Department hasn't caved on any of this. Certainly Chump wouldn't mind turning the country into a banana republic. I wouldn't have expected his own appointees to hold out on him, but people have surprised us before. I remember thinking during the Bush II fiasco that it fell to John freakin' Ashcroft to be the only guy in the admin with an ounce of integrity (refusing to sign torture memo while in hospital).
 
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Handyman said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">11 House Republicans are calling on Attorney General Sessions to prosecute (in no particular order):<br><br>-Hillary Clinton<br>-James Comey<br>-Andrew McCabe<br>-Sally Yates<br>-Loretta Lynch<br>-Peter Strzok<br>-Lisa Page<br>-Dana Boente<br><br>Their letter: <a href="https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA">https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA</a></p>— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/986608275578937344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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lol

I almost can't believe I live in a country where 11 lawmakers would sign that piece of trash.
 
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Handyman said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">11 House Republicans are calling on Attorney General Sessions to prosecute (in no particular order):<br><br>-Hillary Clinton<br>-James Comey<br>-Andrew McCabe<br>-Sally Yates<br>-Loretta Lynch<br>-Peter Strzok<br>-Lisa Page<br>-Dana Boente<br><br>Their letter: <a href="https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA">https://t.co/mwsLZD60bA</a></p>— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/986608275578937344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So basically a third of the Freedom Caucus. Yawn.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
lol

I almost can't believe I live in a country where 11 lawmakers would sign that piece of trash.
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I'm actually surprised it's ONLY 11. That just shows how cowardly many other lawmakers are. They are such wastes of breathable air they can't even sign their name to something they probably believe in.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
I'm actually surprised it's ONLY 11. That just shows how cowardly many other lawmakers are. They are such wastes of breathable air they can't even sign their name to something they probably believe in.
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Those 11 and the other 200 that didn't sign it get to have it both ways anyway. Scooter Libby was pardoned. That cemented what I already knew about the law.
 
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MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Donnelly has an uphill battle for sure, but I don't think you can write off that seat yet. The primary focus is his vote on the tax bill. I haven't seen any of the republican candidates mention it yet, but I see at least one FB ad a day, whether it is from some group admonishing him for "voting against hard working Hoosiers" or from Donnelly himself about why he voted against it.

For comparison sake, Republican Todd Young was elected with 52.1% (about 250,000 votes, I think) of the vote in 2016.
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Donnelly is actually polling well against two of the people who were thought to be front runners in the republican primary for the US Senate seat Donnelly currently holds. Donnelly would win against either Luke Messer or Todd Rokita an April survey showed. Surprisingly to me, both Donnelly and the Todd Young have almost the same "somewhat" or "strongly" disapprove numbers, 32% and 33%. Everybody hates politicians, but they keep voting for the same ones.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
I'm actually surprised it's ONLY 11. That just shows how cowardly many other lawmakers are. They are such wastes of breathable air they can't even sign their name to something they probably believe in.
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RINOs are OK with those dealings. Best not to lump them in with those who actually want America to succeed.
 
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Rover said:
Whenever I see a story like this I think to myself: people are continually telling me that nothing got accomplished in the Obama era (whether or not they hold him responsible). If that's true, why would any of us care when the GOP does something like this?
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I partially agree with this, but real accomplishment needs to be lasting and not subject to repeal because the wrong guy wins the next election. This isn't Obama's fault, more of a sign of how dysfunctional our government has become.

Presidents of either party now seem to accomplish a lot by executive order, and as we all know, many of those get reversed when the next president takes office since the next president elected is always of another party. (IINM once in the last 90 years this was not true, GHWB in 1988) The CFPB was a big deal, as were Obamas appointments to the NLRB and the passage of the ACA. But a two-term republican president with a republican congress would likely dismantle the ACA, leaving it completely unworkable, and the ACA was to be the hallmark of the Obama presidency, especially if it opened the door to truly "universal" health care for everyone. We are still reaping the benefits of Medicare and Medicaid, the EPA and Social Security. I wonder if after 10 years we will say that about anything that happened during the Obama presidency. It helps that right now I doubt the republicans will hold the White House after the 2020 election.
 
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