The Republican Utopia

[BigRedBuster]

30 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said:

If the president cannot be guilty of a crime, it is a fundamental flaw in our Democracy...because he could commit any crime during his term and get away with it no matter how horrible.

 

That becomes a Tyrannical rule and flies in the face of Democracy.

 

9 minutes ago, ZRod said:

That's not what anyone here is saying. That's really not even the adminstration's argument right now.

Trump and the administration (really all Republicans) continue to prove they have absolutely no clue what the impeachment process is.

 

Trump claims repeatedly that he can do whatever he wants...he's President.

 

Well...no.

 

He's probably right that he can't be indicted while in office.  But, the process is for the House to gather information and formally impeach the President.  The Senate then holds a trial to see if he needs to be removed from office.  If he is...then at THAT POINT, he can be indicted and charged for a crime.  

 

The problem becomes if the President's party is in control of the Senate and refuses to follow through with their duties.  Then, the voters need to get more involved and vote based on that.  Problem there is, about 30% of the voters on either side will always support their President and think he's getting railroaded in this process.

[ZRod]

2 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said:

 

It's what Trump says.  Not sure why you think I'm addressing anyone in the forum.

Maybe because your post was ambiguous and this is a message board where we converse with one another... 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[ActualCornHusker]

36 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

From the sounds of it, irregardless of party, he was very unpopular from the very beginning of his tenure. Not much of a surprise that he got beat out (even in Kentucky)

[BigRedBuster]

This guy is just an embarrassment to America. 
 

 

[BigRedBuster]

I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't believe everything he says when trying to protect Trump.

 

 

[Danny Bateman]

This type of crap is why no one should support the GOP at any level. As an institution it's rotten to the core. Burn it down.

 

Don't vote for any of them until they get the message and change their behavior.

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

These people are twisting them selves in knots trying to defend this guy. 
 

 

[funhusker]

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

These people are twisting them selves in knots trying to defend this guy. 
 

 

Wasn’t Trump elected to “drain the swamp”?

 

 

[commando]

republican utopia?

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[TGHusker]

Rubio articulates policy post Trump  - trying to get the GOP to move away from trumpism

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/conservatism-look-trump-140002718.html

 

 

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The right-wing populism of President Donald Trump has led the Republican Party away from its traditional commitments to free markets, advancing economic opportunity, openness and personal responsibility, and towards an embrace of racial grievance, hostility to immigrants and protectionism. But Trump’s time in the White House will end soon enough, either in one year or in five, and GOP leaders need to define the future of the political right.

Senator Marco Rubio has taken an important step in that direction. In a speech on Nov. 5 at Catholic University in Washington, he sketched the outlines of what he called a “common-good capitalism.”

The 48-year-old Florida Republican claimed that his goal was not “to define a post-Trump conservatism.” But regardless of his objective, his speech will be part of the effort to do exactly that, and conservatives would be wise to pay attention.

The specifics of Rubio’s economic-policy agenda need work. (More on that in a moment.) But what made his speech stand out was his broader goal of refocusing the Republican Party on workers and “the opportunity to attain the dignity that comes from hard work.”

Rubio grounded his argument in the Catholic faith that he and I share. To support his emphasis on work and workers, he quoted the late Pope John Paul II, who argued that a society “in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment cannot be justified.”

Drawing on the 19th-century papal letter "Rerum Novarum," Rubio cited the rights of workers and businesses — well-trod ground in the current policy debate — but also focused on their duties. He argued that businesses have an obligation to invest in their workers while making profits. He said that people have an obligation to work, but also that workers should be guaranteed a fair share of the benefits of their production. From a conservative, this is unusual — and welcome.

He contrasted his vision with what he criticized as the traditional Republican approach of focusing excessively on the needs of businesses and the importance of profits and gross-domestic-product growth, and warned against making the market a false idol.

“Our nation does not exist to serve the interests of the market,” he said. “The market exists to serve our nation and our people.”

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

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The Pew Charitable Trusts just released new analysis that shows around 1/3 of every state's revenue came from the federal government in 2017.  Nebraska was at 30.9%.The majority of this funding helps to pay for public services such as health care, education, transportation, and infrastructure.  This is important for our lawmakers to be aware of because if the Federal government decides to cut their funding to the states, it is the Nebraska taxpayers that must pick up the bill.

 

[Danny Bateman]

Pathologically incapable of feeling shame.

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

i would love to know what Trump has on him.