I agree with your initial assessment. My impression was that he was trying to veto them without giving the legislature an opportunity to override the veto. I do not think that he wanted these bills, particularly the benefits bill to become law. I think that he was trying to play a procedural game, and, at the end of the day, he will lose.
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LePage is crazy like an idiot drunk - and would willingly burn the state to the ground rather than work in a cooperative / collaborative manner. Any chance he could proclain an āemergencyā & declare Martial Law
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Maineās government isnāt the most dysfunctional. For that you need to travel to Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, or Arizona. Those five are busy vying for the title of grand-champion-dysfunction.
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All LePage has to do is say following the Legislatureās adjournment rules and the State Constitution amount to an infringement upon his religious liberties.
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Why donāt you impeach the A-hole and be done with it. The people of Maine will no doubt be OK with that.
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As Gen Patton said of war: God help me, but I do love it.
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Jerry Brown is probably the best Republican governor in US history, but heās a Democrat, so, no, there are no decent Republican governors.
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A vulgarian right wing bully who is also stupid. Mainers, you built this!
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Truly. He is so convinced that he is right, that he shoots himself in the foot, and loses another 51 bills.
A fool and his money [bills] are soon parted.
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This is what happens when the voters put a tea-bagging idiot into office!
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What gets me about all this is how perfectly it encapulates the Teabaggers.
Teabaggers have enormous contempt for government, which yes, does makes mistakes. Teabaggers try their damnedst to capitalize on that. Vote US in and you wonāt be seeing that kind of nonsense, they say. We have too much common sense to get into a shitstorm like that.
So the people of Maine put Gov, Bullfrog in not once but TWICE and what happens? He not only fucks up tactically but fucks up HIS JOB tooā¦There is also a real question over whether he broke the law.
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Why?
They voted this assclown into office. Twice.
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Exactly. He thought he could pocket veto the bills and they would be dead until January (and IIRC, be dead when the new session was convened).
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I like how the GOP is highlighting their lack of objectivity. They are continually referring to all legal decisions that go against them as being āopinionsā and suggesting theyāre based on everything other than principal, or objective reasoning or the rule of law. They doth project too much, methinks.
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Cruz is intelligentā¦
I believe decent was the questionā¦ 
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LOLā¦like baby-powdering your hand and then missing with the pimpslap. LePage is a fucking moron.
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And, as we in Occupied North Carolina can attest, a dysfunctional Tea Party/Koch government is much to be preferred to a functional Tea Party/Koch government.
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People keep saying this. To date I have seen zero evidence to support this assertion.
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āDemocrats and their hand-picked attorney general are certainly entitled to their opinions about the Constitutional process,ā
I think this would be a time to use the small ādā for democrats, meaning the people of Maine who elected the Attorney General, who is correctly Entitled to her opinion about the states Constitutional processā¦ by definition in that selfsame document.
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Stupid is, as stupid does!
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