Democratic impeachment inquiry blocking important action in Congress

[Earl]

Consider next the opportunity costs of Congress’ failure to pass a drug pricing reform bill. Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have worked closely together on an issue that matters a great deal to American families: lowering prescription drug prices.
They have crafted a bill (S. 2543) that would significantly improve the Medicare Part D program, hold drug companies far more accountable and save federal taxpayers billions of dollars.

Unfortunately, this transformative bill is not progressing because the House is focusing far more on partisan investigating than bipartisan legislating. Of course, senior citizens are bearing a highly disproportionate share of this particular impeachment burden.

Now how about the lost opportunities associated with the failure to rebuild our decaying roads, bridges, airports and other critical infrastructure? President Trump’s 10-year, $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment program would raise real gross domestic product by as much as 2 percent over the next decade and increase real output by more than $1 trillion, with the higher output recouping some $200 billion in added federal tax revenue.

Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to reshape their militaries in manners that are designed to threaten America’s leadership in space. On a bipartisan basis, the House, Senate and national security experts have agreed that the military must counter these threats.

The United States Space Force, the proposed sixth branch of the armed forces, is an affordable and effective means to protect and defend the nation’s interests in space. Yet Congress is so paralyzed that it may fail to enact a defense authorization bill for the first time in nearly 60 years.

A distracted and divided House has also failed to pass a budget for the 2020 fiscal year. Instead, Congress just keeps kicking the budget can down the road with short-term spending bills known as continuing resolutions.

The American public understands intuitively that the impeachment circus launched by Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is not just a partisan witch hunt. It is also a profound waste of time.

Passing USMCA, lowering prescription drug prices, modernizing our infrastructure, launching a Space Force, and tending to the people’s business will lead to more opportunity, more economic growth, and better choices for farmers, workers, families, and communities.

It long past time for the Pelosi-Schiff impeachment circus to slink out of town and let the 116th Congress finally get to work on behalf of the American people.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pet...inquiry-blocking-important-action-in-congress

America’s defense-industrial base is being hit particularly hard by congressional addiction to short-term budget fixes. Exhibit A is our nation’s shipbuilding industry.

Shipbuilding is a long lead-time and capital-intensive industry that depends on stable and predictable funding. According to the Shipbuilders Council of America, 94 percent of its members will have to halt hiring if the government continues to operate under a continuing resolution.

Indeed.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello dukkha,

do you play chess? You might as well be saying " resign this position and we can move on"

I do, and I understand the importance of controlling the center four squares. In this case that means the public perception. That is why every lie, exaggeration and untruth coming out of Trump fans has been resoundingly countered with the facts and reality Trump fans refuse to accept.

 

[Earl]

Hello dukkha,



I do, and I understand the importance of controlling the center four squares. In this case that means the public perception. That is why every lie, exaggeration and untruth coming out of Trump fans has been resoundingly countered with the facts and reality Trump fans refuse to accept.

No collusion, no obstruction, no quid pro quo, no bribery...squat...nada.

You have countered squat, Snowflake.

 

[Darth Omar]

Hello Darth,

If there were any beef to that nothing-burger of an argument, then Trump would have forced the WB identity to be revealed already.

And what would be the point if identifying the individual? Retribution?

And how would democrats react if Trump did that lol?

The WB statute only applies to the department or agency the WB works in. Everyone else is free to name him, interview him, CNN is free to hire him...you get the idea.

The point to his testimony is that some people are suspicious about any coordination that went on between the WB and Schiff and/or his committee. Since Schiff has already told at least two whoppers we can’t take his word for anything in that regard.

And since Democrats are determined to impeach and remove a duly elected President—it’s important that the whole country—and not just democrats, are satisfied that everything was on the up and up.

 

[Micawber]

Nothing is more important than impeaching the fat orange loser

 

[Earl]

No collusion, no obstruction, no quid pro quo, no bribery...squat...nada.

 

[Micawber]

12 witnesses and all the documents corroborate the WB report.. When you are grasping at straws you get straws.

They have NOTHING to hold onto. Everyone knows it. They just need something to say as they gasp for air between Trump and Putin cock sucks.

 

[countryboy]

If Republicans simply vote to impeach, all these things and more are possible, any time.

Vote to impeach and we can move on.

Democrats job has shifted. There is no longer going to be any quick and easy impeachment. If it needs to drag out for months and months, then that is just what has to happen. Democrats would be fools to wrap it up and send it over to the recalcitrant Senate right away. Let it dominate the news cycle throughout the 2020 campaign. I've no problem with that.

America deserves to hear from the key witnesses.

Republicans should be in favor of this as they have been complaining that there is no first hand testimony.

On what grounds does President Trump argue America should not hear from key witnesses at the heart of the matter?

The transcript debunked the entire hoax. But you go right ahead and keep showing America just what the radical left stands for. Independents are already fleeing the Democrat Party.

 

[Earl]

A friend of my cousin’s uncle’s daughter said...lol

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I missed the part where the statute guarantees anonymity of the WB.

You also miss the part where your glorious orange Toddler-in-Chief is a vindictive petty tyrant who wants nothing more than to get even with the person he sees as the cause of all of his many, many problems. I'm not referring to the actual culprit of course -- the one that appears daily in his mirror.

Who gives a shit who the WB is at this point? It doesn't matter. Multiple very credible witnesses have confirmed what the WB reported. Indeed, so did the Toadstool when he released the (edited) transcript. Too bad he didn't have them edit out the damning parts, eh?

 

[Earl]

You also miss the part where your glorious orange Toddler-in-Chief is a vindictive petty tyrant who wants nothing more than to get even with the person he sees as the cause of all of his many, many problems. I'm not referring to the actual culprit of course -- the one that appears daily in his mirror.

Who gives a shit who the WB is at this point? It doesn't matter. Multiple very credible witnesses have confirmed what the WB reported. Indeed, so did the Toadstool when he released the (edited) transcript. Too bad he didn't have them edit out the damning parts, eh?

But the transcripts, Mujer de Buho.

No collusion, no obstruction, no quid pro quo, no bribery...squat...nada.

 

[archives]

Consider next the opportunity costs of Congress’ failure to pass a drug pricing reform bill. Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have worked closely together on an issue that matters a great deal to American families: lowering prescription drug prices.
They have crafted a bill (S. 2543) that would significantly improve the Medicare Part D program, hold drug companies far more accountable and save federal taxpayers billions of dollars.

Unfortunately, this transformative bill is not progressing because the House is focusing far more on partisan investigating than bipartisan legislating. Of course, senior citizens are bearing a highly disproportionate share of this particular impeachment burden.

Now how about the lost opportunities associated with the failure to rebuild our decaying roads, bridges, airports and other critical infrastructure? President Trump’s 10-year, $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment program would raise real gross domestic product by as much as 2 percent over the next decade and increase real output by more than $1 trillion, with the higher output recouping some $200 billion in added federal tax revenue.

Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to reshape their militaries in manners that are designed to threaten America’s leadership in space. On a bipartisan basis, the House, Senate and national security experts have agreed that the military must counter these threats.

The United States Space Force, the proposed sixth branch of the armed forces, is an affordable and effective means to protect and defend the nation’s interests in space. Yet Congress is so paralyzed that it may fail to enact a defense authorization bill for the first time in nearly 60 years.

A distracted and divided House has also failed to pass a budget for the 2020 fiscal year. Instead, Congress just keeps kicking the budget can down the road with short-term spending bills known as continuing resolutions.

The American public understands intuitively that the impeachment circus launched by Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is not just a partisan witch hunt. It is also a profound waste of time.

Passing USMCA, lowering prescription drug prices, modernizing our infrastructure, launching a Space Force, and tending to the people’s business will lead to more opportunity, more economic growth, and better choices for farmers, workers, families, and communities.

It long past time for the Pelosi-Schiff impeachment circus to slink out of town and let the 116th Congress finally get to work on behalf of the American people.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/pet...inquiry-blocking-important-action-in-congress

America’s defense-industrial base is being hit particularly hard by congressional addiction to short-term budget fixes. Exhibit A is our nation’s shipbuilding industry.

Shipbuilding is a long lead-time and capital-intensive industry that depends on stable and predictable funding. According to the Shipbuilders Council of America, 94 percent of its members will have to halt hiring if the government continues to operate under a continuing resolution.

The House has sent hundreds of bills to the Senate where Moscow has shoved them into a drawer, why do conservatives keep recycling incorrect information? A better question would be what has the GOP Senate accomplished in the last eleven months?

 

[dukkha]

The House has sent hundreds of bills to the Senate where Moscow has shoved them into a drawer, why do conservatives keep recycling incorrect information? A better question would be what has the GOP Senate accomplished in the last eleven months?

not this meme again..
The function of the House is to pass legislation not write bills -meaning therer has to be legislation that willmove thru the Senate.
Which is why the OP lists the big ones that Reid would have to vote on if Pelosi held a vote
1.Prescription drug prices
2. infrastructures
3. bill (S. 2543) that would significantly improve the Medicare Part D program

Passing a bunch of narrow interest progressive junk does not qualify

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

The House has sent hundreds of bills to the Senate where Moscow has shoved them into a drawer, why do conservatives keep recycling incorrect information? A better question would be what has the GOP Senate accomplished in the last eleven months?

Yep. I'd also like to know what, if anything, positive for the American ppl was accomplished from Jan. 2017 to Jan. 2019. You know, when the (R)s held both chambers plus the WH.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

not this meme again..
The function of the House is to pass legislation not write bills -meaning therer has to be legislation that willmove thru the Senate.

How does one "pass legislation" without writing bills?

You still failed to rebut the truth -- dozens of pieces of legislation (BILLS) have been sent on to the Senate for consideration. And there they sit. And sit. And sit. Why's that?

 

[dukkha]

Hello dukkha,



I do, and I understand the importance of controlling the center four squares. In this case that means the public perception. That is why every lie, exaggeration and untruth coming out of Trump fans has been resoundingly countered with the facts and reality Trump fans refuse to accept.

well then you probably understand hyper-modern school as well where the center is controlled from the flanks instead of/addition to direct occupation.

Schiff has tried the center. There is nothing there, no quid , no pressure. So now he's trying to use flank players like the bureaucrats to do it, but they are weak players because they can only say "irregular channels"
Which has nothing to do with POTUS purview, as long as he met the Congressional deadline for teh aid

 

[OG Yurt]

If Republicans simply vote to impeach, all these things and more are possible, any time.

Vote to impeach and we can move on.

Democrats job has shifted. There is no longer going to be any quick and easy impeachment. If it needs to drag out for months and months, then that is just what has to happen. Democrats would be fools to wrap it up and send it over to the recalcitrant Senate right away. Let it dominate the news cycle throughout the 2020 campaign. I've no problem with that.

America deserves to hear from the key witnesses.

Republicans should be in favor of this as they have been complaining that there is no first hand testimony.

On what grounds does President Trump argue America should not hear from key witnesses at the heart of the matter?

Were you born stupid or did you make yourself stupid?

 

[dukkha]

How does one "pass legislation" without writing bills?

You still failed to rebut the truth -- dozens of pieces of legislation (BILLS) have been sent on to the Senate for consideration. And there they sit. And sit. And sit. Why's that?

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have worked closely together on an issue that matters a great deal to American families: lowering prescription drug prices.

ex

So you pass stuff that is of public interest - not esoteric junk,and that puts pressure on Reid
the above id a good ex

 

[Irish]

This dem congress has literally done nothing.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello Darth,

And how would democrats react if Trump did that lol?

The WB statute only applies to the department or agency the WB works in. Everyone else is free to name him, interview him, CNN is free to hire him...you get the idea.

The point to his testimony is that some people are suspicious about any coordination that went on between the WB and Schiff and/or his committee. Since Schiff has already told at least two whoppers we can’t take his word for anything in that regard.

And since Democrats are determined to impeach and remove a duly elected President—it’s important that the whole country—and not just democrats, are satisfied that everything was on the up and up.

It's not about the WB. It is about what was exposed by the WB. It's not like if Trump wants to publicly attack the WB, which would surely happen and has already despite the WB remaining anonymous, that it would change any of the non partisan professional testimony all pointing the President committing bribery.

The President compromised US National Security interests as he tried to bribe a foreign nation into doing him a political errand in order to rig a US election.

The President is totally free to give sworn testimony and speak up on his own behalf under oath if he has any defense for his actions to offer.