Save Ohio Trump runs the Republican table today.

TransPacificPartnership is still not passed in the USA; I think it's a so called "executive agreement" (like the Iran deal)
where the Congress can only nullify it..

Of course by all measures it's an international treaty , and should require ratification, instead of nullification-
but Obama's campaign promises to the contrary -he will act the Unitary executive when it's convenient.

And he's had quite a few 'convenient' moments..
 
I Love America said:
So you don't see a problem with a President ignoring the law?

It really isn't supposed to matter whether you agree with the law.

Now I am sure you are going to come up with some silly example like "what if there is a law legalizing murder" or "slavery". But you get my point.
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such claims of "prosecutorial discretion" are legit upto a point. But when it's done to directly contravene law
it's not.

Of course Hillary is already promising more executive orders if she doesn't get her way on immigration and gun control..
Democrats simply do not respect separation of powers", and it's rare for the courts to get involved..here's an exception

Appeals court keeps block on Obama immigration actions
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/obama-immigration-executive-order-supreme-court-215664

When Obama announced the new moves about a year ago, he said he was acting because Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation. But the decisions drew sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers, who argued he was overstepping his powers under the Constitution. Congressional Republicans had seized on multiple statements Obama himself made that indicated the president did not believe he had the legal authority to act on his own to halt deportations and grant work permits
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Thing1 said:
Hooray for this. I keep hearing Trump & the other GOPers talk about the $19 trillion deficit and reducing spending, and then say that they're going to add money to the biggest budget item that we have.

We can have a strong military & still be smart about the budget money allocated for it. It's run so poorly right now, and has been for many years.
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Technically, it's the fourth biggest budget item, behind Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, but your's and Cawacko's point is taken.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I believe those three make up 50-60% of the budget, but they might be individually smaller than the defense budget.
 
Jarod said:
Maybe Cruz will upset in Missouri but I doubt it.

I think tomorrow its over for the Republican party.
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It's over for the Republican establishment. And frankly, there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the Republican establishment and the Democrat establishment. Not really.

It's over for institutional liberalism. American finally has a chance to get it right.
 
cawacko said:
Ok, let's go through them.

1) Obamacare - How do you expect Obamacare to overturned 1) without a super majority in the Senate because the Democrats sure aren't voting to overturn it and 2) with Obama still in office because he sure isn't going to sign legislation overturning it
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Interesting question. BOTH Houses of Congress are Republican now. And Obamacare is still on the books.

2) the last budget stripped money from the military? If you're complaining about the cost of the budget yet don't support touching entitlements or the military then you're not serious about cutting spending
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Entitlements make up 75 percent of the budget. The military is in the worst drawdown in history. We would have trouble defending our shores from an attack. And nothing in America matters without the military to protect it. Obamacare BY ITSELF added a trillion to the national debt.

3) immigration reform - as long as laws stay the same not a lot is going to change
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A LOT will change with a Trump presidency. We aren't asking for laws to be changed. We're DEMANDING they be enforced. That means if you're in this country illegally, YOU'RE BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW. If you're hiring illegal aliens, YOU'RE BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW. If you are responsible for a sanctuary city, YOU ARE BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW. Our immigration problem is not because there aren't enough laws in place. Our problem is that the laws ARE NOT BEING ENFORCED.
4) Planned Parenthood - so we're going to show the GOP how pissed off we are about PP by backing a guy who donated money to them?
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Trump donated to everyone. That's what businessmen do. And very rarely are those donations connected to political ideology at all. Businessmen do that all the time. Trump donated to hundreds of organizations.

I feel dirty here coming across as supporting the GOP Congress because they don't deserve support.
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I agree.
Many of them brought this on themselves by making promises they knew they couldn't keep.
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And those promises were what got them elected.

Many of them also had no desire to do a budget deal with Obama so we kept the status quo which is equivalent to cut your nose to spite your face.
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And yet Paul Ryan bent over for Obama like a good little boy.
But it's interesting to see you complain about the above and then say you support Trump. Trump isn't cutting spending. Trump supports PP.
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He WILL balance the budget. He doesn't support PP's abortion business and selling baby parts. He'll cut off funding for that.

Trump has no clue what he's doing on health care.
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Actually, he knows more about it than any of us. He has had to shop for health insurance on a large scale and he has seen the problem up front. Fact, is OBAMA has no fucking clue as to what he's doing on health care. Obamacare has been a disaster.

Trump is really no different than the GOP Congress, making a bunch of promises he either can't or won't keep.
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He WILL keep these promises. He WILL get what he is campaigning for. He is the most powerful man in the race, both in terms of money and pull. He'll get even an all Democrat Congress to tow the line. All he has to do is pick up the phone and call the DONORS of those Democrats and they'll heel.
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Thing1 said:
Hooray for this. I keep hearing Trump & the other GOPers talk about the $19 trillion deficit and reducing spending, and then say that they're going to add money to the biggest budget item that we have.

We can have a strong military & still be smart about the budget money allocated for it. It's run so poorly right now, and has been for many years.
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The military is NOT the biggest budget item we have. The WELFARE state is.
 
Patriotic American said:
I think this comment perfectly represents Trump's voter base. Frankly, I think the nation would be better off without people such as this. Supporting Trump should mean an immediate revocation of your citizenship.
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In other words, a small mind like yours would rather deport someone who disagrees with you, huh?

Sieg Hiel.
 
Patriotic American said:
The fact is that there's not much the Republicans could do with Obama in office. The Republicans made promises they couldn't keep, the base got angry and somehow believed that if the Republican congress became more obstinate it would've made up for the fact that they don't control the executive. This is clearly ridiculous and delusional. Ideology should not be put above the interests of the nation, but that's what rightists demand.
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In some ways, you're right. Ideology should not be put above the interests of the nation.

For the past seven years, we've been drowning in LEFT WING EXTREMIST ideology, thanks to Obama and the Democrats. And we're in the WORST fucking economy in the history of the country.
 
Trump would give us leftist judicial appointments, continued open borders, expanded entitlements and a generous budget increase, and a generally leftist agenda across the board, because he is a left-wing Democrat. The only thing he is serious about is trade policy. Enjoy getting lied to, and all...
 
Eno L. Camino said:
Trump would give us leftist judicial appointments, continued open borders, expanded entitlements and a generous budget increase, and a generally leftist agenda across the board, because he is a left-wing Democrat. The only thing he is serious about is trade policy. Enjoy getting lied to, and all...
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Everyone is a seer when it comes to a Trump presidency lol.

I don't think Trump fits into a tidy ideological box. It's obvious he doesn't, actually. So that makes it difficult to predict what he's going to do if elected. Obama predictions were pretty easy by comparison.

The man is blessed with an abundance of pride, that much is obvious too. Proud enough perhaps to make the 'Trump presidency' something historic. But in order to do that, he would have to initiate policies that don't suck the life out of the economy. Or do away with the ones that do.

When he says he's going to make America great again, a lot of people are convinced he's going to at least try. That, I think, is the essence of the Trump phenomenon. People are convinced it would take a person like Trump to turn it around.

So they take him, warts and all. At least that's the way I see it.
 
Understanding the Trump phenom.

'Trump embodies the classic authoritarian leader' 'The political phenomenon we identify as right-wing populism seems to line up, with almost astonishing precision, with the research on how authoritarianism is both caused and expressed.' see Vox link

'Would President Trump Kill Freedom of the Press? What he couldn’t do—and what he could.'
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...freedom_of_the_press_as_president.single.html

'The reason that message works is because a lot of people are, in fact, White Supremacists in their hearts. They have been taught that expressing such views is socially unacceptable, and they genuinely do not want to think of themselves as "racists". But they do think that all those lazy Blacks / illegal Mexicans / terrorist Muslims are inferior, and being invited to believe that those "others" are also the reasons for their economic woes is very attractive, reinforcing their White Supremacist beliefs while allowing them to avoid the label "racist".' http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-guest-post-by-my-son.html

"A lot of what I am seeing in the public's response to Trump -- in addition to the counterpoint between White Supremacy and economic populism -- is a response to a smart, highly charismatic sociopath. People resonate to Trump's outrageous behavior not primarily because they have a deep commitment to the misogyny or the racism that he exhibits (though that may well be true in many cases), but because they see him acting in a completely unrestrained fashion and getting away with it -- indeed, having people give him huge affirmation for doing so -- and seeing that spectacle touches on some of their deepest and most unacknowledged fantasies. People who resonate with Trump have daydreamed about being able to be as unrestrained and uninhibited as they see Trump being, but they never thought it was possible to do that and also be a successful adult. In Trump, they see that fantasy realized, and they want to make themselves a part of it." Tobias Barrington Wolff http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-guest-post-by-my-son.html


'The other reason for this kind of error is based solely on the assumption that white people who have graduated from college are less racist, less anti-immigrant, less anti-feminist, less homophobic, and generally more tolerant of diversity than people who have not. As a college professor, I very much hope this assumption is valid, but I could find no solid evidence that it is. At least in political commentary, the question is never asked, and you have to wonder why not.' https://workingclassstudies.wordpre...ng-class-what-the-narrating-class-gets-wrong/

'MacWilliams studies authoritarianism — not actual dictators, but rather a psychological profile of individual voters that is characterized by a desire for order and a fear of outsiders. People who score high in authoritarianism, when they feel threatened, look for strong leaders who promise to take whatever action necessary to protect them from outsiders and prevent the changes they fear....
So MacWilliams naturally wondered if authoritarianism might correlate with support for Trump.' http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism

'Their book concluded that the GOP, by positioning itself as the party of traditional values and law and order, had unknowingly attracted what would turn out to be a vast and previously bipartisan population of Americans with authoritarian tendencies.

This trend had been accelerated in recent years by demographic and economic changes such as immigration, which "activated" authoritarian tendencies, leading many Americans to seek out a strongman leader who would preserve a status quo they feel is under threat and impose order on a world they perceive as increasingly alien.' above link


'POLITICSCartoonists From 12 Countries Illustrated Trump, And The Results Are Devastatingly Accurate'
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/03/...strated-trump-results-devastatingly-accurate/


"I try my hardest not to be political, I’ve refused to interview several of your fellow candidates. I didn’t want to risk any personal goodwill by appearing to take sides in a contentious election....But I realize now that there is no correct time to oppose violence and prejudice. The time is always now. Because along with millions of Americans, I’ve come to realize that opposing you is no longer a political decision. It is a moral one." Brandon Stanton

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ump-slammed-by-founder-of-humans-of-new-york/
 
I think you're reading a tad too much into it lol.

I don't know that Trump is the next incarnation of Hitler, but the derangement will be off the charts if he does get elected.
 
If Trump does get elected, I am going to have to reassess the seriousness of the candidacy of the porn star who ran for governor of California in 2003 during the recall.
 
Jarod said:
Maybe Cruz will upset in Missouri but I doubt it.

I think tomorrow its over for the Republican party.
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dang you were close


I still think it dosent matter




they will be gulping tar as they sink into the tar pit like so many dinos who thought that courting the racist vote would give them enough votes to win election if they cheated some Americans out of their rights to vote
 
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