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#265401: Jan 1st 2019 at 1:09:36 AM

Same thing for me, contributing to flipping CA 39 in Orange County.

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#265402: Jan 1st 2019 at 1:12:54 AM
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#265403: Jan 1st 2019 at 5:42:27 AM

Yeah, election day was a bright spot in the otherwise dismal year. I was out there doing door-to-doors for Jared Polis. I was happy when our guy won the governorship, but I was floored when Dems took both chambers of the state legislature too.

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#265404: Jan 1st 2019 at 5:59:55 AM

Meanwhile the Republicans are convinced its not a victory unless they take the senate,little relising taking one part of the house means they have a good chance at taking both houses,it's extended their reach

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Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#265405: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:10:55 AM

So what are the democrat's first moves for the new session of congress? What should they be doing?

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#265406: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:13:37 AM

Move the pawns then the knights,dont move the queen piece

edit:Serous

Hard to say,first move is the hardest decide upon,something involving the Muller investigation

Edited by Ultimatum on Jan 1st 2019 at 2:15:53 PM

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#265407: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:39:10 AM

As far as I know, their first plan is to pass a Budget without the Wall.

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#265408: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:48:24 AM

They had better not even think of submitting to Trump's demands, I know they probably won't but I have the need to say it anyway.

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#265409: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:49:12 AM

Has it occurred to the people (Trump's suppoorters mostly) yet that Trump being a billionaire means he could fund his own damn wall? And if he can't fund the wall out of his owns pockets then that means..he's not really as wealthy as he says he is,the ultimate lie

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#265410: Jan 1st 2019 at 6:49:18 AM

Appropriations bills, that is. Apparently they are planning one for the Department of Homeland Security and another one for the others.

IMO, the most interesting bill will be the one that funds the Department of Justice. While Mueller's team is paid by another appropriation measure that is active even during the shutdown, Democrats could tuck a provision in the bill that prohibits money to be disbursed for firing Mueller. I am not well versed enough in parliamentary procedure to say whether that is feasible, though.

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#265411: Jan 1st 2019 at 7:16:53 AM

[up][up]Trump's cheapass-ness is well-documented, plus if he did, it'd probably be tantamount to "losing" in his mind, so there's no way it would happen.

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#265412: Jan 1st 2019 at 7:20:56 AM

Well, what do you know, it did occur to a Republican congressman.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#265413: Jan 1st 2019 at 7:25:01 AM

Trump has already said Mexico is paying for the wall through the billions in tariffs they get anyway.

Because you see....Trump is never wrong.

Metaphorically True is his best friend.

After lying.

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#265414: Jan 1st 2019 at 7:50:02 AM

> Trump's cheapass-ness is well-documented, plus if he did, it'd probably be tantamount to "losing" in his mind, so there's no way it would happen.

Its a lose lose situation,Trump paying for it counts for a loss and Trump not paying it implies he cant afford it,and if Democrats wont pony up..well he's boned

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#265415: Jan 1st 2019 at 8:06:12 AM

The thing is Trump will never acknowledge that fact for as long as possible, if ever, even if he fails more than he has already.

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#265416: Jan 1st 2019 at 8:43:11 AM

Trump could have 49 Secessions, be Impeached and Jailed and he'd still claim that he was the greatest POTUS in history.

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#265417: Jan 1st 2019 at 8:46:01 AM

[up]"No one has had more secessions than I've had, let me tell you, no-one. I have all the successions, all of them. And they're all bigly."

Edited by kkhohoho on Jan 1st 2019 at 10:46:16 AM

Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#265418: Jan 1st 2019 at 8:53:38 AM

Remember, you can't have 'succession' without 'success'.

That would be the logic.

And, yes, the spelling mistake is deliberate.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Jan 1st 2019 at 5:11:52 PM

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DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#265419: Jan 1st 2019 at 10:39:52 AM

The really interesting question is how long it will take before Trump folds. Anyone want to make bets? I say the wall is effectively dead by February.

Edited by DeMarquis on Jan 1st 2019 at 1:40:09 PM

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#265420: Jan 1st 2019 at 10:42:56 AM

If you ask me, the wall never dies so long as Trump draws breath.

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#265421: Jan 1st 2019 at 10:53:35 AM

[up] and [up][up] Yeah, while Trump might (note the emphasis) stop his push for The Wall if continuing to try and fail costs him too much of his supporters' adulation, it's just going to keep coming back again and again

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#265422: Jan 1st 2019 at 11:15:43 AM

That depends. At the moment the shutdown personally benefits him because it's preventing the emoluments court case against him from proceeding.

As a result, he might be more motivated to keep it going for as long as he can.

Why the government shutdown is good legal news for Trump

President Donald Trump is using the government shutdown to try to force Democrats to fund his Mexican border wall. But there is another, more personal benefit for the president that he probably won’t be mentioning anytime soon: An important appeal in the lawsuit over foreign payments to his Washington, DC, hotel and other businesses has been put on hold.

Trump is being sued by the District of Columbia and Maryland because they say he is violating the Constitution’s “emoluments” clause, which forbids federal officials from accepting emoluments, a term for gifts or payments for services or labor from foreign governments or US states.

The states have won several important procedural decisions, but federal attorneys have filed a number of appeals to slow them down, most notably seeking a freeze on any further discovery — like subpoenas the states might pursue to get information on foreign officials’ stays at the Trump International Hotel in DC.

Now the Justice Department lawyers representing Trump have secured a delay in the ongoing appeals. They cited — wait for it — the current government shutdown, now in its sixth day.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Jan 1st 2019 at 7:18:33 PM

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Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#265423: Jan 1st 2019 at 11:20:33 AM

I mean, really any chance of The Wall actually happening died in November- if he couldn't get a Republican Congress to agree to it, there's no way in hell he can convince a Democratic one.

But even that takes for granted the idea that there was ever any possibility of the Wall happening, when the truth is that it's never been a realistic prospect. The Wall's not dead or dying; it was never alive.

The problem, however, is that Trump's not gonna let the government work properly until somebody convinces him that The Wall's a fantasy. Which nobody has seemed to be able to do for the past three years.

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#265424: Jan 1st 2019 at 11:23:39 AM

It *might* have happened in a Republican Congress, it was the Dem filibuster in the Senate that stopped it cold.

Edited by 3of4 on Jan 1st 2019 at 8:39:13 PM

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#265425: Jan 1st 2019 at 11:42:52 AM

How slim are the odds that Congress would pass a budget and override an attempt to veto it?


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