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| January 21st, 2018 at 5:21:52 PM permalink | |
| boymimbo Member since: Mar 25, 2013 Threads: 5 Posts: 732 |
So you believe then that Trump is 6'3" and 239. You claim in this thread that Obama was a chain smoker, yet the physician's report for Obama in 2011 by his physician said he was tobacco-free. Link to 2011 report. So you're wrong then about Obama being a chain smoker during his first term? I understand what you say is also so ill informed and ridiculous. There are studies that say that doctors lie to benefit patients:
Or here (2012 study). There are studies that say that doctors also lie to patients. So get off your soapbox. Doctors aren't completely ethical. I cast suspicion on anything coming from an administration whose daily briefings and statement are completely full of crap. |
| January 21st, 2018 at 5:27:18 PM permalink | |
| boymimbo Member since: Mar 25, 2013 Threads: 5 Posts: 732 |
To be fair, the GOP does not control the Senate. They do not have the 60 seats to control the Senate. They have the Senate majority, but it is the Democrat vote in the Senate that is keeping government closed. So yes, Democrats shut down the US government. And DACA is a hot button issue. Why? Most Americans (87% - source - poll) want Dreamers to be able to stay. Their visas start to expire at the end of March. Time is running out. As well, because the current legal immigrant population is stupid scared that Trump will take their visas away, the Democrats are betting that right-leaning immigrants will see their defense of DACA as something that will change their minds. |
| January 21st, 2018 at 5:43:16 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12559 |
The GOP knew they needed 60 votes for this, and they did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to compromise or work with the Dems to get those votes. Congress could have passed bipartisan solutions for CHIP and DACA months ago. The bills are written. The GOP purposefully did not, because they wanted to hold them hostage until now. So it's totally the GOP's fault. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| January 21st, 2018 at 5:55:51 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | 1) The bill does not 60 votes to pass, it needs 51. 2) The 60 votes are to invoke cloture. This means 60 Senators must vote to end debate and proceed to a vote on a bill. 3) A vote was taken on a continuing resolution. Five Democrats voted for it. One Republican, McCain, was not able to vote. Five Republicans voted against it, including Mitch McConnell. Had he voted for it, it would have passed. So this clearly is on the GOP. Not that it matters much. Except you should hear how the world laughs. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| January 21st, 2018 at 5:57:38 PM permalink | |
| boymimbo Member since: Mar 25, 2013 Threads: 5 Posts: 732 |
Of I agree it's the GOP's fault. However, stating that the GOPs "control the Senate" is not true. They don't have 60 people. |
| January 21st, 2018 at 6:17:52 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
If you quit the day before you see your doctor and tell him you quit, he will have to write tobacco free in his report. Obama said he quit all the time, just like Mark Twain. MT is famous for saying quitting is easy, I 'do it all the time'. There's a pic of Obama on a balcony holding a pack of cigs in 2015. He's said he smoked an average of 3 cigs a day, yet he was hooked on Nicorette Gum for withdrawals, he chewed it all the time. Nobody on planet earth gets nicotine withdrawal from smoking 3 cigs a day. Some friends say he was a solitary closet smoker who smoked constantly when he could. But he was in deadly fear of Michelle (I'm not making it up) and if she caught him she made his life hell. There are reports he still smokes in private. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 21st, 2018 at 6:29:38 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18790 | Nicorette is nicotine. It's only reduces the smoking, not the craving. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| January 21st, 2018 at 6:57:59 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Either way, 3 cigs a day is nothing, he was obviously smoking a few packs a day if he was chewing the gum non stop like everybody said he was. John Boehner said he was in meetings with Obama where he constantly was putting new nicotine gum in his mouth. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 21st, 2018 at 7:08:01 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
A simple majority suffices to change any Senate rule, including the one for 60 votes to invoke cloture. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| January 21st, 2018 at 7:21:52 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18790 | All that really matters is who the public ends up blaming. Since Trump likes to take credit for things he didn't even do, I would hate to deprive him of the honor. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |