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02-12-2018, 06:24 PM | #1 | |||
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02-12-2018, 06:25 PM | #2 | |||
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02-12-2018, 06:29 PM | #3 | |||
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POW! BLAM!
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Isn't that like turkeys introducing a Christmas and Thanksgiving bill?
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02-12-2018, 07:20 PM | #4 | |||||
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As always the devil's in the details. Just a couple of things, not that it matters... House legislation during "split" years tends to be nothing put partisan sh**posting, it's never meant to be passed. In fact, parties tend to be more "frank" about their true positions in a split year than they would normally be when in power, so it's a bit of an "enticement" to their party base to put them back into power the next go-around. So yeah, I find these to be fun reading from a troll's perspective...
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Democrats also have a tendency to see the Supreme Court as a revolutionary sledge hammer for introducing broad-sweeping federal rulings/regulations when it's sole function is really just "interpretting" cases based on unforseen circumstances with current law based on old texts/rulings... it's not meant to be "rewrite" the Constitution to say what we want it to say. That said, I don't agree with Roe Vs Wade ruling at all, because it was just a sh*te interpretation, but I don't know that it should be overturned if it's "settled law"... Quote:
The other thing is, if the feds have control over voting, this takes power from the states. If you remember, Trump requested voter data in order to "investigate" voter fraud... it's not in our interest to pass a federal mandate on automatic registration. It sounds innocuous, but it will lead eventually to states losing their voice... which is what supports individual rights in a representative-democracy... More than 20 states reject “voter fraud” commission's request for data https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-th...uest-for-data/ The foreign threat thing might be overkill. "Regular checks". What does this even mean? Do we mean once a year they look and see if the machines have been compromised? Something that is probably done anyway?... I think what would be more really more helpful is to pass legislation to get counties that are still using paper ballots completely moved over to digital. Like Broward should never have happened for the umpteenth time. A misread vote is likely far more prevalent than a fraudulent one... imo... and the whole ballot "marking" exercise is a bit dumb in terms of integrity. Granted, we had issues with machines here locally automatically selecting certain candidates even if that person decided to vote straight-party. Probably because the person decided to start changing pages before the machine "populated" all the selections... so we were told to wait until things "loaded" before we changed the page if we wanted to do straight-party vote. Again, all this sounds good on paper, but with the split majority, the Democrat tactic (and Republican too I think to a large extent) is probably to cause more chaos and confusion and do it to embarass the opposition... Not a dumb tactic. It's worked before. These "bills" are a sort of "precursor" to what is going to happen with Season X of The Full House... lots more tasty drama to be sure. Probably I will ignore most of what happens during Season X, but I do like to occasionally read the nonsense that our Congress tries to push through during these |
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