(10-05-2018, 08:47 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-05-2018, 08:27 AM)mikesez Wrote: Words mean things.  That word doesn't mean that thing and never did.
The midterms we're never supposed to be about the President.  If the founders thought that the people were unable to consider a new election for Congress without making it about the President, they would have made the terms in office of the President and Congress match.  They never would have allowed the possibility of this two-year lane duck period you describe.

And, right on cue, here comes Mikie the True Republican to denounce the only thing his supposed Party did in the last 4 years that stood up to the Democrats. Good to see the subservients are still out there where we left them back in 2017.

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As I told you before, it's not that I think the Republicans were wrong to refuse to confirm Garland.  I just think this justification of a "Biden rule" or "lame duck period" is totally wrong and totally outside what the Founders would have said the Senate's duty is.
The Senate should have held hearings on him, asked him questions about his writings, and given him an up or down vote. They probably would have rejected him anyways, but they should have upheld our constitution and traditions by going through the process.

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(10-05-2018, 10:19 AM)jj82284 Wrote: Gutless?  Go back to the campaign he criticised trump a lot in the run up.  

Ask for this. Up about lame duck a lot of people refer to a president as being a lame duck after the midterms in his second term.

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No we have former FBI agents trying to pressure leland keyser into perjury.  This is just undignified

Nope.  Not in the dictionary.  You guys just made it up, and now you've given yourself false memories about it.

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