You shared another lying tweet by Trump. On immigration.ABV 8.3% wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 9:38 amI thought, when it came to certain budget items, you needed 60 US Senate votes to have , again certain, fiscal budgets pass. Probably wrong, but pretty sure tRump sent a tweet out in June , of last year (Rep Gaudette bill) and blamed democrats in the Senate (NOT the 41 GOP congress that voted against EVerify ) that it would never pass the Senate anyway.........something like that.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:42 amI gotta disagree.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:18 amseacoaster wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:27 pm Fixed this:
“Now, what about (the two years the GOP controlled both houses of Congress?):
Investigating misuse of the public trust Fine, so long as there is equal scrutiny, equal coverage by the media.
Your comments are purely partisan and there's the rub. My criticism was directed at Congress in general but of course in your narrow mind it's all the fault of Rs. And since any of the initiatives I listed are Trump-driven, they're to be discarded or ignored, not because they won't help the country but because you hate Trump. That's sick IMO. You and all the other resistance warriors are drooling over impeachment while the business at hand stagnates. Nice work counselor
USMCA ratification (GOP controlled Senate; What the heck)
Immigration solutions (GOP can’t compromise because of the endless Trump patter and re-election campaign)
Trade negotiations with China (the Chinese are sure to cave soon, right Larry? Steve?)
the $hitheads in Iran (well, Trump made this mess because of his Obama fetish; what now?)
Denuclearization of Korean Pen (BFFs Forever!!!)
Infrastructure (Democrats are waiting for the Senate on this)
The GOP had two years of full, complete control...yet did not get any of this done when they didn't need Dems to be involved.
That observation is factual, not partisan.
On Trump more specifically, I responded in detail as to how the heat around most of these issues is entirely of Trump's making, in several cases quite stupidly. that, too, is not partisan, though it is more of an opinion (based on facts) than simply 'factual'.
But no one is suggesting that there aren't very serious issues, both domestic and international, that deserve serious and competent attention.
Now, here comes the actual 'bias' for you to criticize: I think Trump and his cronies are so corrupt and incompetent that they are truly incapable of positive progress of their own making. The question is whether they can be restrained or channeled into no complete or irreparable CF's. That seems to me the best we can hope for at this point (I had higher hopes initially, though predicted this situation as most likely).
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/sta ... 6268545024
Nope, the 'nuclear option' has effectively neutered the filibuster (thanks Harry Reid). McConnell decides what comes to the floor and once on the floor, majority rules. It's really a shame that we're in that situation now, as the filibuster demanded compromise in order to get major legislation passed.
As I said, infrastructure would have had bi-partisan support, not needed hardball politics.