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Bulletproof said:
"Has this ever happened before?

Yes and no.

We could not find another instance where a president had singled out particular members of Congress and denied their CODEL request. It's also unprecedented that a president would alert the public to CODEL travel plans to a war zone, which according to Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, raised the State Department's threat level in the trip's security assessment.

There is precedent for speakers preventing particular members of Congress from traveling overseas. In 2015, Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, disapproved Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert's planned trip to Egypt and Africa. (Boehner did the same to Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa earlier that year.)

In the past, members of Congress have been limited in their ability to travel to certain countries due to military operations in the area and resource concerns.
According to retired Rear Admiral and CNN analyst John Kirby, lawmakers were temporarily denied CODEL requests to war zones during President Barack Obama's tenure due to sequestration and security concerns from military officials. Though, Kirby noted, the ban applied to both Republicans and Democrats and did not single out a particular member of Congress, as Trump did before his administration issued a blanket ban."
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Winner by default!
 
Zombie said:
Winner by default!
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Trump beat his current record of being the most petty dick wad President ever AND the record time before a CODEL flight to cancel it. He's racking up the accolades.
 
Based on some undeniably brilliant logic presented on jazzfanz recently, Pelosi has sponsored legislation to increase taxes, so she should be able to spend all that extra revenue however she likes. I mean you can't have it both ways. Without her tax increases the money wouldn't be there, so if she wants to use it to take a military flight that's her right, really.
 
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Bulletproof said:
Based on some undeniably brilliant logic presented on jazzfanz recently, Pelosi has sponsored legislation to increase taxes, so she should be able to spend all that extra revenue however she likes. I mean you can't have it both ways. Without her tax increases the money wouldn't be there, so if she wants to use it to take a military flight that's her right, really.
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This doesn't make sense
 
Rubashov said:
So are federal workers back to work yet and getting paid?
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No. Donald doesn’t give a damn, he only cares about what Fox News and Rush think of him, and Mitch is afraid of passing a clean resolution over fear of angering the crazies and being primaried in 2020.
 
Just wanted to make sure, we all understand that Congress could fix this right now, right? They don’t need the president’s approval for jack ****. They could pass a clean resolution to fund the government and override any presidential veto with 2/3rds majority.

However, republicans in Congress don’t see themselves as a coequal branch. They see themselves as merely a rubber stamp for Donald trump and his radical Fox News allies. This is what happens when one party surrenders it’s constitutional authority to be supplicants of a despot.
 
Rubashov said:
I'm shocked!
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as am I. And I’m “shocked” that this is hurting republicans in the polls.

This is going to come back to bite them in the ***. But whatever. They learned nothing from the midterms. They keep doubling down on stupid. Maybe another 40 seats lost in the house and losing control of the senate and White House in 2020 will teach them? Probably not, since the gop resembles more of a cult of loosely allied libertarians, billionaires, and racists than an organized political party
 
The Thriller said:
as am I. And I’m “shocked” that this is hurting republicans in the polls.

This is going to come back to bite them in the ***. But whatever. They learned nothing from the midterms. They keep doubling down on stupid. Maybe another 40 seats lost in the house and losing control of the senate and White House in 2020 will teach them? Probably not, since the gop resembles more of a cult of loosely allied libertarians, billionaires, and racists than an organized political party
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The Thriller said:
No. Donald doesn’t give a damn, he only cares about what Fox News and Rush think of him, and Mitch is afraid of passing a clean resolution over fear of angering the crazies and being primaried in 2020.
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Rubashov said:
I'm shocked!
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The Thriller said:
Just wanted to make sure, we all understand that Congress could fix this right now, right? They don’t need the president’s approval for jack ****. They could pass a clean resolution to fund the government and override any presidential veto with 2/3rds majority.

However, republicans in Congress don’t see themselves as a coequal branch. They see themselves as merely a rubber stamp for Donald trump and his radical Fox News allies. This is what happens when one party surrenders it’s constitutional authority to be supplicants of a despot.
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https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/19/politics/house-democrats-border-security-funding-trump/index.html?r=http://www.smartnews.com/


Lies.

See, you are just too negative .

Trump, the master deal makers is the one trying to make a deal. He is coming to the table with compromises. And those "compromises" are pro immigrant.

So Trump, in one deal, will prove he isnt racist and is the greatest deal making president in history.

Boom!
 
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