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07 Feb 2017, 3:02 pm

Pence Becomes First VP To Break Senate Tie Over Cabinet Nomination

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07 Feb 2017, 3:18 pm

Nice to see the President of the Senate exercising his Constitutional authority.

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07 Feb 2017, 4:14 pm

DeVos isn't fit for the job, period. She donated money to many current congress members- she literally bought this job. SICKENING! This further proves how corrupt people are in D.C!

People whine about how others are pay-to-play, but somehow it's fine when Republicans do it? :roll:

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07 Feb 2017, 4:37 pm

Is Trump hoping to remove Common Core?

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07 Feb 2017, 9:24 pm

It seems according to the left everyone Trump has picked for anything is the wrong person and evil.

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07 Feb 2017, 9:27 pm

EzraS wrote:

It seems according to the left everyone Trump has picked for anything is the wrong person and evil.

It's a trend I've been noticing also.

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07 Feb 2017, 9:49 pm

Most are rich crooks that want to control our lives.

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07 Feb 2017, 10:05 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:

Most are rich crooks that want to control our lives.

Methinks you're confusing them with the Clinton Foundation.

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07 Feb 2017, 11:42 pm

Want to get rid of DeVos? Me too! Here's how we can do it:

GOP lawmaker proposes abolishing Department of Education

On the same day the Senate confirmed President Trump’s secretary of Education pick by a historically narrow margin, a House Republican introduced legislation to abolish the entire department Betsy DeVos will lead.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie’s bill is only a page long, after merely stating the Department of Education would terminate on Dec. 31, 2018.

Massie believes that policymakers at the state and local levels should be responsible for education policy, instead of a federal agency that’s been in place since 1980.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/h ... -education

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08 Feb 2017, 1:53 am

EzraS wrote:

It seems according to the left everyone Trump has picked for anything is the wrong person and evil.

Have you heard the idiocy she was spouting? And no, they don't keep guns in Montana schools to kill attacking grizzlies. DeVos isn't so much evil as she's incompetent.

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08 Feb 2017, 12:51 pm

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With the Department of Education gone- many many schools will suffer. Then they will be lining up for privatizing and other stuff. Sorry but everyone can't afford a private school! I do realize there is voucher programs for families- but realistically I doubt those programs would work everywhere. So education under Trump+DeVos+other rich elites = helping the rich out, while nearly everyone else suffers. SICKENING!

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08 Feb 2017, 12:59 pm

the_phoenix wrote:

LoveNotHate wrote:

Most are rich crooks that want to control our lives.

Methinks you're confusing them with the Clinton Foundation.

The Clinton Foundation does not include the current president of USA.

Nice try to derail. But it is clear that Republicans did "pay-to-play" quite a lot. Most of Trumps picks donated to him and/or many other current Republicans in congress. The proof exists and its not "fake news" like people love to throw around these days.

DeVos = very little education experience. Being an advocate doesn't help her case much. She is ignorant and doesn't have a clue. Plus she plagiarizes!

Carson = experience in medicine! Not housing. Sorry but the reasoning of "he lived in the projects" (when that's only a half truth anyway) doesn't qualify him for the job.

The guy running to head EPA wants it gone.

Trump and his friends want to help themselves and big oil, while everyone else suffers. Do you care about air quality? They certainly don't. Wind and solar energies exist and work much better than oil that gets into water supply and so on! There's how many oil spills in USA now that aren't cleaned up? But all they want to do is drill drill drill for more profits, because to them.. its "me me me money money money now now now", never anything about long lasting effects or any impact.

Sickening!

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08 Feb 2017, 1:03 pm

Darmok wrote:

And wouldn't it be cool if Pence could once again cast the tie-breaking vote?

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08 Feb 2017, 1:04 pm

Earthbound wrote:

the_phoenix wrote:

LoveNotHate wrote:

Most are rich crooks that want to control our lives.

Methinks you're confusing them with the Clinton Foundation.

The Clinton Foundation does not include the current president of USA.

I never said it did.

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08 Feb 2017, 1:10 pm

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They just turn a blind eye when Dear Leader Trump does it. You bring up thing like this they just change the topic to "but Hillary Clinton eats babies" (nevermind that the real left didn't want a center-right neo-liberal shill like Hillary to be the Democratic candidate). You try to bring up anything substantial they change the topic to Hillary. Its absolutely ridiculous. It's like they're trained to respond this way. Pod people.

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08 Feb 2017, 1:13 pm

From now on I'm going to introduce a new rule. Unless her name appears in the first post of the thread DO NOT MENTION HILLARY CLINTON in the course of a debate.

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