MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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House passes border deal, setting up Trump to declare emergency
By artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:06am |By Juliegrace Brufke @ TheHill.com, Feb. 14
The House voted Thursday night to approve a border security deal that prevents a new government shutdown in a 300-128 vote.
The vote sets up President Trump to sign the legislation — and to declare a national emergency as a way of getting more federal funds for his wall on the Mexican border.
The House-passed legislation falls far short of Trump's demand for $5.7 billion for a wall on the Mexican border, and Trump is likely to sign the legislation somewhat reluctantly. Conservative pundits have lambasted the deal worked out by appropriators, and the House Freedom Caucus on Thursday night largely voted against it. Fox News host Laura Ingraham said in a string of tweets that Trump “must not” sign the legislation. And a group of conservative members sent a letter to Trump urging him to take executive action should he feel the need to sign the bill [....]
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stuff of interest on topic @ TheHill.com:
Bill Kristol resurfaces video of Pence calling Obama executive action on immigration a 'profound mistake'
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ACLU says planned national emergency declaration is 'clear abuse of presidential power'
@ Politico.com:
Emergency declaration shocks GOP
Senate Republicans were stunned to learn Trump is ignoring their warnings against such a move.
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Legal war looms over Trump's border emergency
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Funding bill includes new limits on Trump’s immigration crackdown
....Tucked into the 1,159-page bill are provisions that limit Trump’s ability to round up undocumented immigrants and that increase oversight of the officers who carry out those sweeps. On the border, restrictions on barrier construction will bar the administration from erecting fences on several large properties in South Texas, including a butterfly sanctuary and a historic Catholic church....
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:24am
Sykes piles on Kristol's point with old Trump tweet:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 2:19am
2020 Democrats split on spending deal
The Senate passed the funding bill 83 to 16, with the chamber’s most progressive lawmakers generally voting against it.
@ Politico.com, 02/14/2019 05:15 PM EST
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:43am
I just checked Coulter's twitter feed so you don't have to. She's apoplectic. Just a small selection
the goal of a national emergency is for Trump to scam the stupidest people in his base for 2 more years...and retweeting others saying Roses are red Violets are blue Trump signing this budget scam is a giant FU..and The biggest immigration betrayal of the Trump presidency and we have
@TuckerCarlson talking about China and@seanhannity talking about Peter Strzokand
No court will allow a president to claim it's an "emergency" to violate a law he just signed and The GOP "negotiators" on this bill were imbeciles, patsies and people actively hostile to the wall and There ARE no emergency powers to build the wall if Trump signs this bill. It's like signing a confession - then immediately appealing it.and on Crenshaw voting no Here's a fine congressman! Too bad he'll soon be serving in a Congress that will never again have a Republican majority.
and retweeting The Republican Party is an ideological Ponzi scheme.
and most amazingly, a new fan of impeachment?
Pence be her boy from now on?
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 3:37am
glad to see my interpretation confirmed by those who follow such things as I do not purport to be an expert:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 8:00pm
hee hee cat fight
edit to add: Jared is a doofus:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 8:11pm
looks like she was officially fired from the kitchen cabinet approx. 9 hrs. ago but the other big 4 are still with him:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 8:18pm
Of course Trump barely knows her. While Coulter is an occasional guest on tv unlike all the others mentioned she doesn't have her own show. She's mostly know for writing books and Trump doesn't read.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 9:32pm
Cracking the GOP into chaotic pieces. Sounds to me like a plan, a Russian plan...not that I think it was that much of a plan, just that they saw an ideal vessel for their goals:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 4:09pm
Reminded me of this: destroying faith in any ideological beliefs and also in whatever your lying eyes tell you, wherever they can:
...Totalitarian propaganda is overwhelming and inconsistent. It bombards you with mutually contradictory claims, which often come packaged in doublethink pairs....
Why the Russian Influence Campaign Remains So Hard to Understand by Masha Gessen, Dec. 18 @ The New Yorker
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 4:17pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 7:17am
Jonah Goldberg on the delusional hapless dictator thing:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 6:29pm
Fellow Americans, just for you, the most tremendously big press conference evah by the world's greatest person and stable genius in great health,least racist expert on everything, using the best words:
This Trump performance is why people talk about the 25th Amendment by Dana Milbank @ WashingtonPost. com, Feb. 15, 7:43 pm
#25th Amendment on Twitter.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 7:31am
It's an EEEEMERGENCY! gotta have an omelette:
Edit to add Pelosi:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 6:37pm
Reminds me of the Marx Bros. for some reason:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/16/2019 - 8:30pm
He doesn't really care any more, that's the really odd thing that comes through loud and clear from the press conference onward, he's let go:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 3:32pm
Interesting big long term picture in this graph, makes it look like Trump's obsession with a wall since the days of his campaign made the idea become less popular except for riling up fans as he gained more power. Especially as Obama admin had already had some success at other methods which caused support to fall:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 1:01pm