This. Obama was considered a ‘lame duck’ somewhere around the end of 2015, or early 2016... and told he can no longer make appointments because we should ‘let the people decide’.
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So….GOP logic….2nd term President of the United States cannot have his Supreme Court nominee confirmed because he is in his last year of office….but the current governor of NC….who actually LOST his bid for reelection, who the people voted should not be the governor, is allowed to make all of these laws while he is…
Except it won’t because North Carolina is gerrymandered (and vote suppressed) within an inch of its life and the GOP won’t be giving up control of it any time soon. Even if some of these orders end up getting overturned down the road they do damage now by throwing sand in the gears of government.
Yes. The CURRENT governor. The one who just lost and then spent a month trying to overturn the election and refusing to concede and then called this special session in the first place. Something tells me he won’t mind signing these bills if they reach his desk.
Whether it’s at the national level (e.g., failing to approve budgets, blocking Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, etc.) or at state and local levels, it’s becoming more and more obvious that republicans are only about serving the interests their party, and doing whatever they can to maintain power. Not that democrats…
From a certain point of view, she did--to the tune of about 2.8 million votes and counting (I voted for Clinton, for the sake of full disclosure).
The problem is that too many voters have a tendency to vote their values (or what they’ve been told their values are) over their interests.
I live in Kentucky. I’m married to…
Go fuck yourself. The reason we are watching that fucking con man prepare to move into the White House is this fucking false equivalency and both sides do it mentality that was used as a bludgeon against Clinton for 18 months. That you are fucking incapable of making the distinction between Clinton’s charity and her…
“where was all the concern about conflicts of interest when Hillary was the Secretary of State and when she was running to be President?”
Well for starters, the Clinton’s offered a plan to cover their conflicts. You don’t get to a position of power and influence like Senator, Secretary of State, etc. without making some very powerful friends abroad and at home. The problem isn’t that the conflicts exist, so much as Trump has shrugged and pretty much…
The difference is in the businesses. The Clinton Foundation was a non-profit charity and, by all measurable standards, a successful one. The Clintons received no money from their Foundation.
Donald Trump’s 800 or so LLCs all exist for one reason: to make Donald Trump money.
Do you mean Michele Bachman in 2020 or Obama. Obama doesn’t want to run. Also Clinton Foundation is a charity with open books that you can find on line. None of the Clintons accepted a dime from the charity. Somebody has to get paid for there to be pay for play. We spent so much time trying to be fair and balanced we…
If it was a popular vote the campaign trail would look dramatically different.
The point isn’t this hypothetical “what if it had applied to Hillary?” bullshit. It’s that she was punished for disclosing all of this information that nobody demanded of those who were happily slinging mud about her trustworthiness.
She was not above such questions, but she at least allowed inspection of her financial…
The difference is that the Clinton Foundation (which includes the CGI you mention) is a public, nonprofit corporation whose stated mission is to improve lives of people in America and around the world.
They don’t rise to the same level.
Applying even simple logic, the candidates would have spent less time jerking off red state middle America, and more time in big cities, meaning it’s pretty reasonable to extrapolatee that Clinton would have increased her popular lead.
I don’t think the angry white people who elected the Orange Man would have elected a socialist Jew, no matter how excited millenials were about him.
The difference is that Clinton did not personally benefit financially from the Clinton Foundation. All of those donations went to fighting AIDS in Africa and helping poor farmers.
Trump won 3 critical swing states by a total margin of about 100,000 votes, without which he would have lost the election. Clinton won the national popular vote by about 2.8 million votes. Are you seriously contending that a national campaign decided by popular vote would have undone Clinton’s popular vote margin?