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[Emerald Drifter]

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[Emerald Drifter]

The enjoyment begins tomorrow.

If you were Speaker of the House, what would be your agenda for the upcoming Congress? What innitiatives and attendant bills would you try to get passed?

 

[PoppaJ]

If you were Speaker of the House, what would be your agenda for the upcoming Congress? What innitiatives and attendant bills would you try to get passed?

Now you’re interested in legislation? Where the hell was your interest in the last two years? I’m not the the speaker and never will be but if I were I guess I would take a que from McConnell and make President Mushroomdick a one term disaster be my number one priority.

 

[Emerald Drifter]

Now you’re interested in legislation? Where the hell was your interest in the last two years? I’m not the the speaker and never will be but if I were I guess I would take a que from McConnell and make President Mushroom a one term disaster be my number one priority.

I'm always interested in the process as set forth by the Constitution. And I have discussed this in previous posts. House controls spending, Congress as a whole writes and approves legislation and submits completed bills for POTUS signature which then becomes law.

So your only agenda is just to "get Trump"? Sigh...I was hoping for at least something constructive. No thoughts on the war racket spending, infrastructure improvements here at home instead of foreign countries, illegal immigration?

 

[PoppaJ]

I'm always interested in the process as set forth by the Constitution. And I have discussed this in previous posts. House controls spending, Congress as a whole writes and approves legislation and submits completed bills for POTUS signature which then becomes law.

So your only agenda is just to "get Trump"? Sigh...I was hoping for at least something constructive. No thoughts on the war racket spending, infrastructure improvements here at home instead of foreign countries, illegal immigration?

If you don’t understand why getting rid of Individual One is a priority then this conversation is going nowhere.

 

[Emerald Drifter]

If you don’t understand why getting rid of Individual One is a priority then this conversation is going nowhere.

Confirmed. Your only solution for the myriad of challenges for America is "get Trump". You realize there is a LOT that can be done to affect change just from the House? The left's complete obsession with Trump is damaging their credibility and they can't even see this. The infighting within the Democratic party is at an all time high now, and will intensify.

 

[Lake View Too]

I'm always interested in the process as set forth by the Constitution. And I have discussed this in previous posts. House controls spending, Congress as a whole writes and approves legislation and submits completed bills for POTUS signature which then becomes law.

So your only agenda is just to "get Trump"? Sigh...I was hoping for at least something constructive. No thoughts on the war racket spending, infrastructure improvements here at home instead of foreign countries, illegal immigration?

The military industrial complex was President Eisenhower’s greatest worry. The completely out of control spending for “defence” has been going on for over 60 years. Good luck with that one. Trump just appointed a Boeing executive as Secretary of Defense and he had no military or political experience. Illegal immigration has been declining steadily for about 10 years, but you didn’t know that because you watch Fox Noise. I’m for any money going to infrastructure, but your president is throwing a tantrum about his wall. Do you consider that a top priority?

 

[PoppaJ]

Confirmed. Your only solution for the myriad of challenges for America is "get Trump". You realize there is a LOT that can be done to affect change just from the House? The left's complete obsession with Trump is damaging their credibility and they can't even see this. The infighting within the Democratic party is at an all time high now, and will intensify.

Damaging credibility, that’s too funny.
No get rid of Trump. He is a lying con man who’s word cannot be trusted. He is holding America hostage over a nonexistent border crisis for a wall that he promised you Mexico would pay for that may or may not be concrete, metal, fencing, solid, slats, perforated, metaphor, or shower curtain. After two years of whining about it even he has no idea what it’s design is and he now wants you to pay for it. How can anyone negotiate with a serial liar? It’s a fools errand.

 

[Jenksy]

When your house is on fire you don't need to be trimming the hedges.

However democrats will have an agenda beyond investigation and impeachment because they are intelligent, caring, and can do more than one thing at once. Although dealing with a moron like Trump is going to impede progress for getting real work done.

 

[L.C. Bane]

"Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarreling with one another about the steering -- every one is of opinion that he has a right to steer, though he has never learned the art of navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned, and will further assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut in pieces any one who says the contrary.

They throng about the captain, begging and praying him to commit the helm to them; and if at any time they do not prevail, but others are preferred to them, they kill the others or throw them overboard, and having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink or some narcotic drug, they mutiny and take possession of the ship and make free with the stores; thus, eating and drinking, they proceed on their voyage in such a manner as might be expected of them. Him who is their partisan and cleverly kaids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not-the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling.

Now in vessels which are in a state of mutiny and by sailors who are mutineers, how will the true pilot be regarded? Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?"

- Ship of Fools