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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

After the Obama's massive luxury vacation expenses.... alt left snake tears about expenses fail to impress

And the orange gibbon has already spent more than the whole 8 years of O'bamas vacation expenses.
And what's more, those expenses he bills the tax payer for goes straight into his own private coffers of his business empire.

In essence, he's ripping off the tax payer to line his own pockets!!

And you support this moronic and fraudulent behaviour??

You don't understand how his "reasoning" works.

1) Everything R is automatically good.
2) If it contradicts earlier stances, see #1 and ignore the contradiction
3) If it's so bizarre that even rule #1 looks stupid, those were just RINOs.
4) If asked to present actual evidence and reasoning, talk about Hilary, Obama, fake news, and how you're just a troll.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Funding for his border wall?
Massive military spending increases?
A sudden health care bill?
Tax reform just like that?
Infrastructure spending?

Can Trump use Friday to get what he wants to avoid a government shutdown?

Can the GOP majority manage to muster a majority to pass their own budget?
Will they blame Democrats if they can't find the votes in their own party?


WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders and White House officials have steered the nation to the brink of a government shutdown that virtually all parties agree would be a terrible idea.

While lawmakers seem eager to forge a deal before government funding expires on Friday, the Trump administration wants to use the deadline as a point of leverage that Democrats — and at least a few Republicans — do not believe they have, raising the prospects of a shutdown that had seemed unlikely.

President Trump’s team is straining to demonstrate progress on key campaign promises like money for a border wall and increased military spending, hoping to project success before Mr. Trump’s 100th day in office on Saturday. But any measure will require bipartisan support, and Democrats are unlikely to budge.

The standoff continues a Washington trend, as banal now as it is nonsensical to veterans of the Capitol: legislative cliff-jumping in the name of brinkmanship, frustration or some combination thereof, with no clear endgame.

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/us/politics/government-shutdown-congress-trump-administration.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

1. One party holds at least two of the following: House, Senate, and Presidency.
2. There isn't a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
3. The two big parties don't agree on much, as it pertains to spending and programs.
4. Spending bills are seen as opportune times to attempt to leverage your way to get more of your party's programs and goals.
5. If a deadline looms for passing a spending bill.... blame the GOP.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

It takes 60 votes to confirm a SC Justice too . . . oops. Not any more!

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With the GOP controlling all three, doesn't it seem to you like problems ARE the fault of the GOP?
Isn't not like the Dems are secretly controlling the government.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
Budgets are simple majority votes.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

After the Obama's massive luxury vacation expenses.... alt left snake tears about expenses fail to impress

And the orange gibbon has already spent more than the whole 8 years of O'bamas vacation expenses.
And what's more, those expenses he bills the tax payer for goes straight into his own private coffers of his business empire.

In essence, he's ripping off the tax payer to line his own pockets!!

And you support this moronic and fraudulent behaviour??

You don't understand how his "reasoning" works.

1) Everything R is automatically good.
2) If it contradicts earlier stances, see #1 and ignore the contradiction
3) If it's so bizarre that even rule #1 looks stupid, those were just RINOs.
4) If asked to present actual evidence and reasoning, talk about Hilary, Obama, fake news, and how you're just a troll.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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Incredibly, Trump is already trying to blame this on... wait for it... Democrats. Despite the GOP controlling all branches of government.