I'm not sure that Congress abdicating its responsibility is key, tho. I'd say Congress' blatant neglect of duty affects the burgeoning Federal Register more than EOs. Not that they don't have the duty to rein in abuse of these powers. But so long as they get their pound of pork, they're most always content to kick the can.
Too early to break out the extrapolation rulers and y=mx+b formulas imo...most of them typically come at the beginning and end of terms. Nevertheless, you're either for the process or against it...not just for it when your team does it.
Roosevelt, like obama, trump, bush, and clinton, used it when they couldn't push any legislation. Truman did too.
I like it as a tool, but still thought that Obama and trump both failed the people when both used it their only way to legislate. Before any trumpers complain about pelosi or harry ried, remember that the system is designed to gain consensus, protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Consensus often means compromise, but the wing nuts at each end, who are the loud donors and news channel watchers, constantly control the narrative and won't fund compromiser candidates.
Obama and Trump were forced to use
EOs to do anything. Congress gridlocked everything good or bad. Biden has the house and senate. No reason at all for EOs. Except the other reps want to keep their job and voting yes for half of Bidens stuff would ensure a loss in the next house and senate elections.
Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
I'm not sure that Congress abdicating its responsibility is key, tho. I'd say Congress' blatant neglect of duty affects the burgeoning Federal Register more than EOs. Not that they don't have the duty to rein in abuse of these powers. But so long as they get their pound of pork, they're most always content to kick the can.
Too early to break out the extrapolation rulers and y=mx+b formulas imo...most of them typically come at the beginning and end of terms. Nevertheless, you're either for the process or against it...not just for it when your team does it.
Roosevelt, like obama, trump, bush, and clinton, used it when they couldn't push any legislation. Truman did too.
I like it as a tool, but still thought that Obama and trump both failed the people when both used it their only way to legislate. Before any trumpers complain about pelosi or harry ried, remember that the system is designed to gain consensus, protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Consensus often means compromise, but the wing nuts at each end, who are the loud donors and news channel watchers, constantly control the narrative and won't fund compromiser candidates.
Obama and Trump were forced to use
EOs to do anything. Congress gridlocked everything good or bad. Biden has the house and senate. No reason at all for EOs. Except the other reps want to keep their job and voting yes for half of Bidens stuff would ensure a loss in the next house and senate elections.
Hopefully.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
I'm not sure that Congress abdicating its responsibility is key, tho. I'd say Congress' blatant neglect of duty affects the burgeoning Federal Register more than EOs. Not that they don't have the duty to rein in abuse of these powers. But so long as they get their pound of pork, they're most always content to kick the can.
Too early to break out the extrapolation rulers and y=mx+b formulas imo...most of them typically come at the beginning and end of terms. Nevertheless, you're either for the process or against it...not just for it when your team does it.
Roosevelt, like obama, trump, bush, and clinton, used it when they couldn't push any legislation. Truman did too.
I like it as a tool, but still thought that Obama and trump both failed the people when both used it their only way to legislate. Before any trumpers complain about pelosi or harry ried, remember that the system is designed to gain consensus, protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Consensus often means compromise, but the wing nuts at each end, who are the loud donors and news channel watchers, constantly control the narrative and won't fund compromiser candidates.
Obama and Trump were forced to use
EOs to do anything. Congress gridlocked everything good or bad. Biden has the house and senate. No reason at all for EOs. Except the other reps want to keep their job and voting yes for half of Bidens stuff would ensure a loss in the next house and senate elections.
This is my point. They didn't gridlock everything. Not literally everything! Cash for clunkers went through. The VA Reformation Act went through. Stimulus relief and the budget and things that had to get done went through.
The things that didn't go through were each of those presidents' agendas, And they didn't go through because there was no national consensus. There was definitely a consensus to take care of veterans, and there was definitely a consensus to get us out of that recession.
This is where compromise comes in and this is what does not happen in today's politics. Even if Obama were willing to compromise with Mitch McConnell, McConnell would not be willing to compromise back because the big time donors would no longer support him.
No big deal, because he wins every election by 70-30, right? Wrong. His real election is the primary in that red state. The rich wackos, if McConnell were to have compromise with Obama, would have backed a Republican Challenger.
And therein lies the difference. Tip O'Neill worked with Reagan. A thousand Democrats have worked with a thousand Republicans, and a thousand Republicans have worked with a thousand Democrats in the past. It's no longer like that.
That's why my opinion remains that we the people suffer in the name of the almighty pac dollar And because of the crap that they spew on so-called news channels.
Oh and I should also add one more thing. When I say compromise I don't mean you pick five I pick five. I mean you take your comprehensive bill, and you give up some stuff inside of it, then I give up some stuff inside of it. In the end, you have a compromise that was tough. You have a compromise where you did not get everything you wanted. You have a compromise where you got some things that you wanted.
That's how the system was designed to work. Protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. That Madison was a smart feller...
Not to crap on the other side because they don't believe in what you believe in. Not to call each other live tired and conservanazis. And it sure as hell wasn't for one side to say you cheated while the other side says you're racist.
he hasn't lost his mojo:
Donald J. Trump
11:18am May 3, 2021
Please explain to the Democrats and RINOs that the reason Texas-06 completely shut out Democrats in Saturday’s Jungle Primary is because of my Endorsement of Susan Wright, who surged last week after receiving it. The Democrats were shut out and now it will be a contest between two Republicans, a very big win. It would be nice, however, if the pundits and Fake News Media would state the real reason for this unprecedented (Democrats have never been shut out before) victory!
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Now the White House Press Secretary says they don't want the President answering questions from reporters, they don't thing it's wise. You can't make this stuff up!
@YankeeMan said:
Now the White House Press Secretary says they don't want the President answering questions from reporters, they don't thing it's wise. You can't make this stuff up!
The fact that this is ok, and the media outlets are spinning this to be a positive is a problem. If a Republican did this the media would have a field day. This is just my observation.
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“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
You know, it occurs to me that if I had some inscrutable interest in having the Ukraine join NATO, I'd tell the American public that the Russians are forbidding it. Our contrarian nature would kick in, and...poof...! Before you know it, Americans would be in favor of getting Unka Joe's gun club to back a Ukrainian uprising against Russia.
I guess I'd announce that "the Russians may be planning a 'false flag' attack", then let the story unfold from there.
Of course, we'd only do something like that if our political leaders had some sort of vested interest to capitalize on in the Ukraine.
Anyone else remember a few years back when all of the internet criminal activity was attributed to "Eastern Block" (read Ukraine) countries?
Or, is it just me that's suspicious? I'm probably just paranoid delusional. I mean, what possible interests could anyone in our government have in the Ukraine anyway? It's not like there's been any history there, has there? Nah! Just conspiracy theory.
Right?
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Of course the military industrial complex has one hell a lobby.
But think of this:
Russia has no warm water seaport without Crimea.
Pause to ponder: Vast plains growing grain, immense river systems linking industry, oil, etc... but how do you get the goods to market?
Think what the USA would be without the Gulf. At least we have innumerable ports all along the East Coast and a couple clogged ports on the Left Coast. But Russia has what? Vladivostok thousands of rail miles away across a frozen wasteland, Murmansk when ice breakers can clear it, and a tenuous trickle at the end of a Baltic bottleneck. Dial your memory back to the Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale... why was Britain at war in the Crimea anyways? Ever even wonder? Denying Russia access to the sea, is what. Disabling a competitor. That's our motive for war as well.
Putin is in a corner. He has to have Ukraine cause Sevastopol's where their rivers debouche. Absent Arctic thaw from feeble AGW, what else is he to do?
Not to speak of the plain fact that a hungry world would be much better off with all the food they might ship. The fact they might base a carrier or two there should not deter us.
We are here:
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
^^Good points. Interestingly, to me anyway, is that I wouldn't be here were it not for the Crimean War. My great-great-great grandfather, a Scottish soldier in the British Army, was wounded in that war. Upon arriving home, he found his wife had died leaving two young children whom he was unable to care for.
He sent the children to live with relatives in Ireland, who decided that since they were already all stocked up on children that they should be forwarded to relatives in Canada. From there, my great-grandfather homesteaded in North Dakota, about 12 miles from the Canadian border.
Anyhow, that bit of family history is why I have indeed considered the causes of The Crimean War, and you're undoubtedly correct as to the continued politics involving that region.
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“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
At times Trump was a bit embarrassing to have has a President, mostly it was his insistence on tweeting. However, I am far more embarrassed to have Biden as my President, the guy is a walking gaffe.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Actually they are spending billions on a new port in the arctic. With the lower levels of ice they are able to transport over Siberia year round and it’s faster than the Indian Ocean route.
@Hobbes86 said:
At times Trump was a bit embarrassing to have has a President, mostly it was his insistence on tweeting. However, I am far more embarrassed to have Biden as my President, the guy is a walking gaffe.
True, but, it seems like Mitch McConnell is making headway into Biden's traditional territory lately.
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Now we're going to send "5,000 troops" to the region?
Why didn't we just tell the guys in Afghanistan to get in our equipment and drive west?
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“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
I have to say, this meme brings up some questions in my mind.
Did J.B. actually say this?
In what context?
If not, is this another false claim, like the 2016 meme in which Hillary Clinton's former employer was said to have fired her for her continuous lying? Which was easy to believe, given her mythical recounting of her trip to Bosnia, but turned out to be false.
Was J.B. talking without the teleprompter? Or, did someone load an un-examined speech for him to read?
It's hard to form a coherent opinion these days. Especially given that both major parties have been caught in collusion with one another to prevent 3rd party nominations from attaining viability.
I wouldn't be surprised if Joe did say this, so I'll leave my "insightful" vote where it is.
I suppose I'll never be satisfied.
Conservatives want us to make an impossible return to a past as they remember it, which mostly never existed.
So-called Liberal / Progressives want to usher us into an undesirable future in which if you belong to a group that was persecuted in the past, you'll now be encouraged to persecute the people who look like they may be descendants of the people who persecuted your ancestors.
Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right...
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Joe Biden said "It’s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote — who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all." On July 13, 2021
I couldn't find any reference of Stalin saying the quote
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There are a lot of ways to skin a cat.
I can only think of two or three.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Obama and Trump were forced to use
EOs to do anything. Congress gridlocked everything good or bad. Biden has the house and senate. No reason at all for EOs. Except the other reps want to keep their job and voting yes for half of Bidens stuff would ensure a loss in the next house and senate elections.
Hopefully.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
This is my point. They didn't gridlock everything. Not literally everything! Cash for clunkers went through. The VA Reformation Act went through. Stimulus relief and the budget and things that had to get done went through.
The things that didn't go through were each of those presidents' agendas, And they didn't go through because there was no national consensus. There was definitely a consensus to take care of veterans, and there was definitely a consensus to get us out of that recession.
This is where compromise comes in and this is what does not happen in today's politics. Even if Obama were willing to compromise with Mitch McConnell, McConnell would not be willing to compromise back because the big time donors would no longer support him.
No big deal, because he wins every election by 70-30, right? Wrong. His real election is the primary in that red state. The rich wackos, if McConnell were to have compromise with Obama, would have backed a Republican Challenger.
And therein lies the difference. Tip O'Neill worked with Reagan. A thousand Democrats have worked with a thousand Republicans, and a thousand Republicans have worked with a thousand Democrats in the past. It's no longer like that.
That's why my opinion remains that we the people suffer in the name of the almighty pac dollar And because of the crap that they spew on so-called news channels.
Oh and I should also add one more thing. When I say compromise I don't mean you pick five I pick five. I mean you take your comprehensive bill, and you give up some stuff inside of it, then I give up some stuff inside of it. In the end, you have a compromise that was tough. You have a compromise where you did not get everything you wanted. You have a compromise where you got some things that you wanted.
That's how the system was designed to work. Protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. That Madison was a smart feller...
Not to crap on the other side because they don't believe in what you believe in. Not to call each other live tired and conservanazis. And it sure as hell wasn't for one side to say you cheated while the other side says you're racist.
^^ we can agree on that ^^
Think after dinner I will smoke an Oliva that I have been sitting on
former pres. Trump has a new web site.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk
he hasn't lost his mojo:
Donald J. Trump
11:18am May 3, 2021
Please explain to the Democrats and RINOs that the reason Texas-06 completely shut out Democrats in Saturday’s Jungle Primary is because of my Endorsement of Susan Wright, who surged last week after receiving it. The Democrats were shut out and now it will be a contest between two Republicans, a very big win. It would be nice, however, if the pundits and Fake News Media would state the real reason for this unprecedented (Democrats have never been shut out before) victory!
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-fact-checks-these-key-statements-from-president-biden
Now the White House Press Secretary says they don't want the President answering questions from reporters, they don't thing it's wise. You can't make this stuff up!
Biden needs to kept to the script. Without a teleprompter he's just too funny.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
The fact that this is ok, and the media outlets are spinning this to be a positive is a problem. If a Republican did this the media would have a field day. This is just my observation.
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FJB is NSFW:
You know, it occurs to me that if I had some inscrutable interest in having the Ukraine join NATO, I'd tell the American public that the Russians are forbidding it. Our contrarian nature would kick in, and...poof...! Before you know it, Americans would be in favor of getting Unka Joe's gun club to back a Ukrainian uprising against Russia.
I guess I'd announce that "the Russians may be planning a 'false flag' attack", then let the story unfold from there.
Of course, we'd only do something like that if our political leaders had some sort of vested interest to capitalize on in the Ukraine.
Anyone else remember a few years back when all of the internet criminal activity was attributed to "Eastern Block" (read Ukraine) countries?
Or, is it just me that's suspicious? I'm probably just paranoid delusional. I mean, what possible interests could anyone in our government have in the Ukraine anyway? It's not like there's been any history there, has there? Nah! Just conspiracy theory.
Right?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Of course the military industrial complex has one hell a lobby.
But think of this:
Russia has no warm water seaport without Crimea.
Pause to ponder: Vast plains growing grain, immense river systems linking industry, oil, etc... but how do you get the goods to market?
Think what the USA would be without the Gulf. At least we have innumerable ports all along the East Coast and a couple clogged ports on the Left Coast. But Russia has what? Vladivostok thousands of rail miles away across a frozen wasteland, Murmansk when ice breakers can clear it, and a tenuous trickle at the end of a Baltic bottleneck. Dial your memory back to the Charge of the Light Brigade and Florence Nightingale... why was Britain at war in the Crimea anyways? Ever even wonder? Denying Russia access to the sea, is what. Disabling a competitor. That's our motive for war as well.
Putin is in a corner. He has to have Ukraine cause Sevastopol's where their rivers debouche. Absent Arctic thaw from feeble AGW, what else is he to do?
Not to speak of the plain fact that a hungry world would be much better off with all the food they might ship. The fact they might base a carrier or two there should not deter us.
We are here:
^^Good points. Interestingly, to me anyway, is that I wouldn't be here were it not for the Crimean War. My great-great-great grandfather, a Scottish soldier in the British Army, was wounded in that war. Upon arriving home, he found his wife had died leaving two young children whom he was unable to care for.
He sent the children to live with relatives in Ireland, who decided that since they were already all stocked up on children that they should be forwarded to relatives in Canada. From there, my great-grandfather homesteaded in North Dakota, about 12 miles from the Canadian border.
Anyhow, that bit of family history is why I have indeed considered the causes of The Crimean War, and you're undoubtedly correct as to the continued politics involving that region.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
At times Trump was a bit embarrassing to have has a President, mostly it was his insistence on tweeting. However, I am far more embarrassed to have Biden as my President, the guy is a walking gaffe.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Actually they are spending billions on a new port in the arctic. With the lower levels of ice they are able to transport over Siberia year round and it’s faster than the Indian Ocean route.
True, but, it seems like Mitch McConnell is making headway into Biden's traditional territory lately.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Some of these guys and gals just don't know when to retire.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Or just die.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Now we're going to send "5,000 troops" to the region?
Why didn't we just tell the guys in Afghanistan to get in our equipment and drive west?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
might be why Putin waited for us to pull out... ^^
I have to say, this meme brings up some questions in my mind.
Did J.B. actually say this?
In what context?
If not, is this another false claim, like the 2016 meme in which Hillary Clinton's former employer was said to have fired her for her continuous lying? Which was easy to believe, given her mythical recounting of her trip to Bosnia, but turned out to be false.
Was J.B. talking without the teleprompter? Or, did someone load an un-examined speech for him to read?
It's hard to form a coherent opinion these days. Especially given that both major parties have been caught in collusion with one another to prevent 3rd party nominations from attaining viability.
I wouldn't be surprised if Joe did say this, so I'll leave my "insightful" vote where it is.
I suppose I'll never be satisfied.
Conservatives want us to make an impossible return to a past as they remember it, which mostly never existed.
So-called Liberal / Progressives want to usher us into an undesirable future in which if you belong to a group that was persecuted in the past, you'll now be encouraged to persecute the people who look like they may be descendants of the people who persecuted your ancestors.
Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right...
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
All I know is it's one of my favorite lines paraphrased, in Gangs of New York.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Joe Biden said "It’s no longer just about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote — who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all." On July 13, 2021
I couldn't find any reference of Stalin saying the quote
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Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.