The House of Representatives on Monday voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the sweeping defense bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, CNN reported late Monday.
Republicans have to choose who to support:
Trump or Military Defense contractors.
Republicans will most likely override Trump’s veto.
This is yet another slapdown for Trump. If the Senate follows suit, he is done, with the exception of some more egregious pardons, which he is saving for his last days in office. He needs to take his fat ass golfing and just get out of the way. Letitia James is waiting in the wings.
Putin pouts.
Another Trump triumph.
Next, tRump will claim a new veto by executive order
He’s gonna sue!
I suspect the Senate will.
Rudy and Sidney are already gearing up to file lawsuits about the eventual Senate vote.
You’d think having done this kind of thing regularly over the years (I’ll take responsibility for shutting down the government, Chuck!) would put an end to any talk about his political instincts. You hear that talk about people who seem to be able to hang around even if they don’t really seem to know much about politics. This episode lately has been a giant tantrum and I-don’t-wanna-fest from the toddler-in-chief and springs not from political instincts but a severe personality disorder as does and did everything except for a general awfulness on top of it that “resonated” with the awfulest bottom two quintiles. If, as expected, he gets himself an extra-large gravestone, most of that would fit. Just saying.
For those who think GOP fealty to Trump is permanent, it isn’t. While still pretending to like him, this veto override is the beginning of the move away by congressional Republicans. Within a year they’ll all dishonestly pretend they never really liked Trump in the first place.
I think that most of them really don’t like him, they just didn’t have the courage to stand up to him for fear of getting primaried. The GOP is populated mostly by chickenshit cowards. The only ones with any stones went to The Lincoln Project.
With other key Republicans waylaid, it fell to Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) to talk the president down. So Graham raced to Trump’s Florida golf club and worked the problem: What possible solution could assuage Trump without forcing Congress to reopen negotiations?
“We’d hit a shot, take a phone call. Hit a shot, take a phone call. Hit a shot, talk about what’s a good deal,” Graham said in an interview Monday. “It was a very intense Christmas Day.”
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On the golf course, Graham determined that two of the president’s grievances towered over all others: He felt that the $600 checks, which had been sized to keep the overall relief package under $1 trillion at the behest of congressional Republicans, were simply too small. And Trump was furious that Congress had done nothing to rein in a key federal law — Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act — that gave online platforms a broad shield against liability for the actions of their users. Trump had tried and failed to block the annual Pentagon policy bill to punish the tech companies he loathes.
Trump really is a menace.
I don’t know if I’m that confident. There’s that little issue of shell companies that’s buried in this bill - has nothing to do with defense, but would affect all shell companies currently in place. Not sure how many of these esteemed Senators are laundering money through their own shell companies (and I can guess with some confidence that it’s why Trump vetoed the bill, despite all his posturing on re-naming bases). They’re not going to vote against their own best interests. The next election for some is as long as six years away. There’ll be no electoral penalty for voting against passing the bill over the veto.
I’ll wait and see, though. I’m personally invested in this as my Navy assignment to their project is funded through this bill. Right now, I can’t get a start date and it is primarily because they have no money to pay for the work.
And Graham is still a POS.
Graham’s latest golf round with Trump was probably his last chance to make sure that Trump knows he is his biggest suckup and to insure that the pictures and videos won’t be released.
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Pretty sure it’s real.
That article did everything it could to normalize the idea that a President should have to be placated and soothed while on the golf course rather than doing the job he asked us to give him. Yes, please, give us someone who is willing to hurt millions of people when he doesn’t get his way.
And maybe it’s just me, but if I were trying to overturn a fair and free election and subvert the Constitution and I had exhausted all of my “legal” options except for the long shot of convincing Congress not to accept the results, I would not try a power play at this moment, especially one that asked people from my own party to vote against the traditional interests of the party. And if I had only been able to get 67 of my lapdog GOP in the House to support my veto, I would consider that to be a bad omen.
I’m fully expecting the fringe right wing media to begin immediate attacks against the 100 Republicans who voted for the override.
So much winning. I’m exhausted. ETTD!
If it makes OANN and Newsmax money, they’ll jump right on it.