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Amimnoch

(4,558 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2019, 02:57 PM Aug 2019

Moscow Mitch calling a special session of the Senate.

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Moscow Mitch calling a special session of the Senate. (Original Post) Amimnoch Aug 2019 OP

Mitch is uglier. dem4decades Aug 2019 #1

I swear someone was going to say he's dumber. rogue emissary Aug 2019 #2

Mitch isn't dumb, he's cunning and without any decency. dem4decades Aug 2019 #5

I thought Moscow Mitch was calling a special session MontanaMama Aug 2019 #3

Yes, an Enabling Act dalton99a Aug 2019 #4

dem4decades

(11,687 posts)

1. Mitch is uglier.

Reply to Amimnoch (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 03:00 PM

Aug 2019

rogue emissary

(3,189 posts)

2. I swear someone was going to say he's dumber.

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 03:02 PM

Aug 2019

LOL

dem4decades

(11,687 posts)

5. Mitch isn't dumb, he's cunning and without any decency.

Reply to rogue emissary (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 03:09 PM

Aug 2019

MontanaMama

(23,818 posts)

3. I thought Moscow Mitch was calling a special session

Reply to Amimnoch (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 03:04 PM

Aug 2019

to propose a resolution that no one could call him Moscow Mitch any more.

dalton99a

(83,185 posts)

4. Yes, an Enabling Act

Reply to Amimnoch (Original post)

Wed Aug 21, 2019, 03:07 PM

Aug 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933, formally titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich" ), was an amendment passed on 23 March 1933 to the Weimar Constitution that gave the German Cabinet—in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler—the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which had abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship.

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