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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:21 AM May 2017

Trump's impatience with GOP grows

Source: The Hill



BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 05/31/17 06:00 AM EDT

An impatient President Trump is putting new pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to get rid of the filibuster in order to speed progress on legislation repealing ObamaCare and reforming the tax code.

In a message posted Tuesday on Twitter, Trump urged Republican senators to invoke the so-called nuclear option and “switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX CUTS approved, fast and easy.” Trump also suggested his party wasn’t as cutthroat as Democrats when it comes to passing legislation, writing, “Dems would do it, no doubt!”

It’s just Trump’s latest attempt to press McConnell to eliminate the power to filibuster legislation, something Republican lawmakers firmly rejected when the president floated the idea only a few weeks ago.

That he used Twitter to do so was no surprise — but may have irritated McConnell, who has urged the president to rethink his use of social media.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/335715-trumps-impatience-with-gop-grows

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Crowman2009

(2,478 posts)
1. What a f***in' idiot!
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:25 AM
May 2017

He doesn't know how to talk to the Senate directly, or does he not know how to use a phone as well? But I don't want to correct this dumb son of a bitch. So keep it up you ole' Drumpfster fire!

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
2. No Donald, Democrats never did it even though they could have a number of times but sure
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:30 AM
May 2017

try this shit and eventually I promise you that your party will regret it as no party keeps control of the Senate forever.

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
3. Good
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:34 AM
May 2017

Captain Clueless can keep stomping his feet because he doesn't get his way. The division of the Greed Over Principles party is helping to slow down the damage. That's the only saving grace.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
5. He just doesn't understand how our government works.
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:40 AM
May 2017

First he discovered that he wasn't an absolute dictator when the courts refused to allow Muslim ban. Then he discovered that Congress wasn't a rubber stamp for his insanity. Then he discovered that world leaders didn't quake in fear and say 'yassa' to whatever he wanted them to do. And now he shows that he doesn't have a clue how the filibuster works or why no party want's to get rid of it.

The filibuster was originally designed to prevent the 'tyranny of the majority'. It still serves that function, but it has evolved into having another important (albeit a political) function. If there is a bill that the Executive is clamoring for, but the constituency hates, the majority party can vote FOR it, secure in the knowledge that the minority party will filibuster it. So they can honestly say to the Executive and to the folks back home, 'Voters, we tried. We really tried. But those folks across the aisle filibustered it'. So, neat political cover.

It was frustrating during Obama, if may be a life-saver (literally) under 45.

BumRushDaShow

(127,318 posts)
6. If the wagons come circling the Turtle
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:47 AM
May 2017

he would try to do it.... kamikaze style. He doesn't have to run again until 2020 and can easily decide not to re-up in order to retire extremely wealthy with not a care in the world if there is blow-back during an election.

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
12. Only the Twitter bots are retweeting now
Wed May 31, 2017, 02:04 PM
May 2017

Nobody else is paying any attention. Since last weekend, all of his Twitter followers are "fake."




Crowman2009

(2,478 posts)
13. I'm surprised the bastard hasn't been kicked off of Twitter.
Wed May 31, 2017, 02:08 PM
May 2017

BTW, do you know of any online petitions that ask for this dumb maniac's twitter account to be deleted?

calimary

(80,700 posts)
9. Not as much as OUR impatience with getting him OUT of America's White House!
Wed May 31, 2017, 12:08 PM
May 2017

Just remember - we now have TWO consecutive GOP "wins" that were achieved by cheating.

It's now proven that this is the only way that side of the aisle can win the White House. They can only win when they cheat.

David__77

(23,220 posts)
10. If the filibuster is ended, it will ultimately benefit progressives.
Wed May 31, 2017, 01:23 PM
May 2017

I do not think Democrats should say much about this now.

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