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(85,145 posts)is what's generally the truth.
Exactly as it was recently with jeb bush on the Iraq War - his FIRST response was the money one. That he would have done the same thing his brother did. THAT'S the one you could take to the bank. Then he waffled and tap-danced and two-stepped throughout that week, trying to thread the needle so it didn't seems as though he was gonna do that after all (and it's safe to go ahead and vote for him. Just take his word for it!).
Exactly as nikki haley did with her crocodile tears late on that Wednesday night a couple of weeks ago immediately after the massacre. Q: What about taking down that flag, governor? A: Oh well, that's part of our heritage and that's who we are and well we can't do that; it means too much to too many people in this state... And then five days later there she is with her allegedly-changed tune that the flag is indeed gonna come down. Yeah, sure! They're even gonna bring it up in the state legislature. They're gonna talk about it. They're gonna bring it up for discussion. They're gonna... yeah, sure, nikki. I'll believe it when I see it. Your tap-dancing and two-stepping just sounds like another delaying tactic to me.
I've taken some heat and some lovely little insults about that here. And I really don't have time to get into head-to-head arguments with other brothers and sisters here that take up a bunch of increasingly heated and nasty real estate in some thread here.
Well, fine, South Carolina has its own legislative procedures about how things get done. Governor doesn't have the same powers the Alabama governor did - he said the flag comes down and that's exactly what happened, straight away, and he doesn't have to wait for the legislature. Yeah, I get that.
Well, EVEN IF THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, I'm not convinced. nikki-baby could be out there, USING HER LEADERSHIP POSITION to hustle that change along. GET UP THERE IN FRONT OF THOSE CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES and publicly nag the legislature EVERY DAMN DAY. Make an issue of it. Make a stink out of it. Publicly ask why they're not at it TODAY. NOW. THIS MINUTE? Put them on the spot for every hour they're choosing NOT to deal with it or NOT to get to it or NOT to have enough time for it. Procedure SHMOcedure. If you really agree it has to change, and if indeed your state laws and constitution stipulate that the legislature's got this one, and you as governor can't act unilaterally (well, that hasn't stopped our President, thank goodness!), why aren't you using your job title and your state-wide bully pulpit to nag them and shame them and pester them til they get off their asses and actually get something done about it? WHERE ARE YOU, nikki haley? We haven't heard squat from ol' nikki-baby about any of that since last Monday. If she really agrees that the flag should come down, then she should be out there, loudly and repeatedly, pushing them and pressuring them to make this change and take that damn flag down, in front of EVERY camera and EVERY microphone that so frequently likes to pay attention to her because she's glib, easy on the eyes, and she photographs well.
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