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Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:08 am
by asiab3
We need examples of both parties over-reaching.
Off my head, I have Obama’s TPP deal and Trumps desecration of Bear’s Ears.

Robbie

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:27 am
by Amskeptic
hippiewannabe wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:30 pm
Trump is doing more reversing of Obama's unconstitutional overreach than overreaching himself.
Please explicate . . . . lawmakers who had protested Obama, insisting he was bypassing Congress, were eager to support Trump’s orders to restore "enhanced interrogation techniques" and travel bans, reduce women's access to abortion services, open up libel laws, firing James Comey, announcing that the government would defund jurisdictions that did not comply with his immigration orders, yeah a district court in California ruled that Trump overstepped his powers as president, calling his threat "ominous, misleading," and the other actions like his executive order to vacuum up voter data under his "voter fraud commission" that alleged that rampant voter fraud occurred during the 2016 presidential election, a claim that experts have disputed again and again and again, oh and the list of Trump actions that have run afoul of the courts such as Trump's executive orders defending "religious liberty" by allowing them to politicize from the pulpit, it just goes on and on, disgustingly.

Yeah, Trump is some "Constitutional Scholar," protecting us from that rogue Barack Obama . . . sure.
Colin

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 7:53 am
by wanderer
Amskeptic wrote:
Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:27 am
hippiewannabe wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:30 pm
Trump is doing more reversing of Obama's unconstitutional overreach than overreaching himself.
Please explicate . . . . lawmakers who had protested Obama, insisting he was bypassing Congress, were eager to support Trump’s orders to restore "enhanced interrogation techniques" and travel bans, reduce women's access to abortion services, open up libel laws, firing James Comey, announcing that the government would defund jurisdictions that did not comply with his immigration orders, yeah a district court in California ruled that Trump overstepped his powers as president, calling his threat "ominous, misleading," and the other actions like his executive order to vacuum up voter data under his "voter fraud commission" that alleged that rampant voter fraud occurred during the 2016 presidential election, a claim that experts have disputed again and again and again, oh and the list of Trump actions that have run afoul of the courts such as Trump's executive orders defending "religious liberty" by allowing them to politicize from the pulpit, it just goes on and on, disgustingly.

Yeah, Trump is some "Constitutional Scholar," protecting us from that rogue Barack Obama . . . sure.
Colin

Here's some of that there explicate for ya. Seems as if the delusional democratic dumb dumb dome of denial has hooked another one. Hey ya Colin.... if ya like yer Volkswagen ya can keep yer Volkswagen. :salute:

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 9:13 pm
by Amskeptic
wanderer wrote:
Sat Mar 03, 2018 7:53 am
Here's some of that there explicate for ya.

Seems as if the delusional democratic dumb dumb dome of denial has hooked another one.

Hey ya Colin.... if ya like yer Volkswagen ya can keep yer Volkswagen. :salute:
Well, you sort of tried to respond, I guess, but it does not rise to level of "explicate". Explicate, in this case, would be to offer a supporting fact.

I will interpret your last sentence as the old Obama statement "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
He was roundly criticized by republicans as "lying" here.

In 2009 and again in 2012, PolitiFact rated Obama’s statement Half True.
No one knows exactly how many people got cancellation notices, because the health insurance market is largely private and highly fragmented. Analysts estimated the number at about 4 million (and potentially higher), out of a total insured population of about 262 million.
That works out to less than 2% of the entire healthcare market where people were not able to keep their plan.

Meanwhile, In his first 10 months, Trump told nearly six times as many falsehoods as Obama did during his entire presidency. This is a supportable fact.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... orse.html

So, wanderer, feel free to try to explicate again.
Colin :cyclopsani:

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:38 am
by wanderer
Oh Lordy, Lordy; Lets all marinate ourselves in the spoken word of that there great orator who proudly proclaimed to millions and millions of them there sheep; " resist we much...we must...and we will...about...that...be committed ".

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:21 am
by hippiewannabe
tommu wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:15 pm
What overreach are you referring to here? Is that DACA?
Not DACA, the laws are pretty clear that the executive branch has a lot of sway over immigration policy. A fact which Democrats were fine with under Obama, but now fight on every front.

I was thinking along the lines of directing the EPA to go way beyond its legal mandate, writing the Clean Power Plan, which amounts to a new law that only Congress can draft. Another big one is cancelling the Keystone Pipeline by diktat, even though it is similar to a dozen other pipelines, and should have been permitted under the laws as written. What was especially galling about that one is it was bad policy, and just a sop to his base.
Instead of bringing in oil from an ally by the most efficient and environmentally responsible manner, it would have sent that oil to the coast to be loaded on a CO2 and smog belching tanker across the ocean to Asia, and replaced it with oil brought in by another CO2 and smog belching tanker across another ocean.

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:35 pm
by Bleyseng
Oh geez, what overreach? EPA regs to kill “ cleancoal” or slow “climate change”? Oh yes, the EPA head now states there is no “scientific evidence “ behind evolution!. As I said we have a Banana replublic dictatorship who stated he’d like to have a term for life.....

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:29 pm
by hippiewannabe
Bleyseng wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:35 pm
Oh geez, what overreach? EPA regs to kill “ cleancoal” or slow “climate change”? Oh yes, the EPA head mow states there is no “scientific evidence “ behind evolution!. As I said we have a Banana replublic dictatorship who stated he’d like to have a term for life.....
It's not a discussion about climate change, it's about constitutional authority. It seems those who are most paranoid about Trump were all for Obama's expansion of presidential power.

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:04 am
by tommu
hippiewannabe wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:21 am
tommu wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:15 pm
What overreach are you referring to here? Is that DACA?
Not DACA, the laws are pretty clear that the executive branch has a lot of sway over immigration policy. A fact which Democrats were fine with under Obama, but now fight on every front.
Current immigration policy is discriminatory. First hand documentary evidence proved this. Regardless of any need to change legal immigration policy - current policy is informed by racist rhetoric and that should be morally wrong in anyone's book. Implementation of immigration enforcement is destroying families, causing harm to innocent. law abiding people and is generally cruel. I Suspect this is why a large number of people including Democrats (there are people other than Democrats who are fighting this).

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 am
by tommu
hippiewannabe wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:29 pm
It's not a discussion about climate change, it's about constitutional authority. It seems those who are most paranoid about Trump were all for Obama's expansion of presidential power.
At least he only wanted to be president for two terms!

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:34 am
by Bleyseng
tommu wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 am
hippiewannabe wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:29 pm
It's not a discussion about climate change, it's about constitutional authority. It seems those who are most paranoid about Trump were all for Obama's expansion of presidential power.
At least he only wanted to be president for two terms!
Yes, let's just have Trump for life :bootyshake: Sessons's has the police seizing "suspected" criminals cash and assets! What about the consitutionallity of that? All this smoke and mirrors about " Dems will take our guns" bullshit while the GOP is now a Dictatorship! Let's drill for oil in all the National Parks until there is no parks left just oil rigs..........Talk about Overreach! The greed of these people is unbelievable!

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:31 am
by hippiewannabe
Bleyseng wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:34 am
tommu wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 am
hippiewannabe wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:29 pm
It's not a discussion about climate change, it's about constitutional authority. It seems those who are most paranoid about Trump were all for Obama's expansion of presidential power.
At least he only wanted to be president for two terms!
Yes, let's just have Trump for life :bootyshake: Sessons's has the police seizing "suspected" criminals cash and assets! What about the consitutionallity of that? All this smoke and mirrors about " Dems will take our guns" bullshit while the GOP is now a Dictatorship! Let's drill for oil in all the National Parks until there is no parks left just oil rigs..........Talk about Overreach! The greed of these people is unbelievable!
Oh brother. Did you read the quote? It was clearly a joke. I don't think anyone believes he will try, let alone get, 2/3s of the states to agree to change the Constitution on that one. I guess what they said after the election is still true, the Democrats and their media allies take Trump literally, but not seriously.

He would be far more effective if he realized that as president, everyone hangs on his every word, and he doesn't have to say stupid stuff to get attention anymore.

The police have been seizing suspected criminal's cash and assets for many, many years.

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 pm
by wanderer
Oh lordy lordy the end of times is upon the loony lefties. As quick as possible ,dash on down to the basement. Once there,locate the nearest corner and immediately drop to the ground. Now assume the fetal position and hum in B-Flat ..." Cry Me A River ".

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:43 pm
by tommu
wanderer wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:06 pm
Oh lordy lordy the end of times is upon the loony lefties. As quick as possible ,dash on down to the basement. Once there,locate the nearest corner and immediately drop to the ground. Now assume the fetal position and hum in B-Flat ..." Cry Me A River ".
Nurse! He's at the computer again!

Re: We Who Do Not Learn ...

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:47 pm
by tommu
hippiewannabe wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:31 am
Oh brother. Did you read the quote? It was clearly a joke. I don't think anyone believes he will try
Just what would they have said about Obama had he made that "joke" They'd have their followers out in streets with pitchforks!. :cyclopsani:

As to anyone not believing he'd try. Well.. we have a little more idea about his capabilities now don't we. :king: