Order restored. Balance of power alive and well, thanks, US constitution

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  1. XploreR

    XploreR Well-Known Member

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    I agree with parts of your post. As a Democrat, I agree that my party has some serious internal challenges it needs desperately to find resolutions to that won't break up the party. I am concerned. But I disagree with the Republican claim that the Democratic party has become extremist left. Bernie Sander's or Eliz Warren's socialist policies aren't extreme today. There are many countries in Europe that live successfully with those policies every day, resulting in far happier citizens there than here. Yes, Bernie & Eliz both propose incorporating some socialist ideas in with our capitalist system, because our existing system has resulted in such extreme disparity of wealth in America, that we're becoming dysfunctional as a society & as a politic. We can't continue with the status quo. More Americans have to feel they're benefiting from their own labors. Life for everyday Americans shouldn't be a constant challenge for mere survival. There's enough wealth here, that every American should be capable of a comfortable living for themselves & their family. Most Democratic Socialist nations in Europe have achieved that. Why haven't we? What do Democratic Socialist countries have, or do, that American capitalism has failed at? What's the secret? Shouldn't we be looking for that answer?
     
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    Lying Lindsay? I wouldn't hold my breath

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    BOOM! Maria The Money Honey Bartiromo NAILS Lindsey Graham for LYING TO AMERICAN PUBLIC About Calling in Deep State Criminals to Testify.

    On May 1, 2019 Lindsey Graham, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised investigations on how the Mueller probe started.

    He made the the comments during testimony by US Attorney General Bill Barr in front of the US Senate.


    But Lindsey Graham lied.
    Lindsey Graham is a fraud
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    Lindsey Graham has scheduled NO COMMITTEE HEARINGS on Deep State, FBI, CIA, Spygate, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Mueller, Stefan Halper, George Papadopoulos, Tom Fitton, Sidney Powell, Joe diGenova, John Brennan, James Comey, Chris Wray, etc.
    Here is the list of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings since Lindsey Graham made that lie back on May 1, 2019.

    In October 2019 Maria Bartiromo confronted Lindsey Graham about his promise to call in deep state witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lindsey lied and said he would call in deep state witnesses after the Horowitz Report was released in December.
    He never did.

    On Sunday Maria Bartiromo again confronted Senator Lindsey Graham about calling in deep state witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

    Lindsey NOW SAYS he will wait to call witnesses until the General Flynn case is over.
    Wow!

    Good for Maria Bartiromo for continuing to call out Senator Graham for his continued lies.

    We do have the power and authority restore balance of power, but, much of hat power resides in Congress and they are not particularly responsive to their electorate.

    The Senate was intended to be the State Legislatures House of Congress. I think a Constitutional Amendment that allowed the State Legislature to remove a Senator from office on a majority vote would help restore the balance of power between the US Congress and the State Houses.
     
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  3. garyd

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    He did not abuse power he tried to end one. Not that you'd recognize a real abuse of power if you saw one. The whole damn Obama admin seemed to be taking money on the sly from Ukraine, high dollar speeches for low information money laundering on a grand scale. That's why the Dems and the Obama holdovers in the Doj and the state department reacted so strongly to this, their hand was in the cookie jar and they couldn't afford to be found out. So the whole Trump impeachment became little more than a magicians sleight of hand trick to distract the mob for long enough to cover their tracks, and if they could put a nail in Trump's coffin then so much the better.
     
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    There was a time when America led the world morally and intellectually, not just economically.
    Sadly that is what is being lost. We are in a race with China to the bottom. College education scoffed upon. Living wages criminalized. Unions broken. These are not the paths to being a leader but to be a follower.

    People complain, rightly, about China's lies. Many of those same people now accept lies from the US president who has only a distant acquaintance with the truth. That is not a good thing.
     
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    A belated reply to an excellent post. You give the Senate way too much credit for sustaining the balance of power. Every Democrat voted to convict and even one Repubelican voted to convict on one of the articles.

    It is too early to declare constitutional victory. Remember Yogi Berra, "It ain't over 'till it's over." They ain't done yet. Pelosi would try it again in a New York second with any half-way reasonably sounding pretense.
     

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