Trump Administration to Defund NPR/PBS

[Guest shiloh357]

10 hours ago, Bill16652 said:

You mean like the Republicans did for the last four years, lets talk about obstructionism.  Lets discuss Merrick Garland and a host of other issues that the Republicans blocked or outright refused to vote, to bad they did not suspend the rules then

Let's talk about all of the bills passed in the House that Harry Reid refused to bring to a vote in the Senate.  

As for Merrick Garland, Democrats forget that Joe Biden advocated for holding up the nomination of a SCOTUS judge at the end of a presidential term until the next president takes office.    Of course, Democrats, the hypocrites that they are, tend to think that their policies are a one way street.

The Democrats need to grow up and put on their big boy pants.  Hillary lost and elections have consequences as Obama once said.

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I can agree with this decision. Especially if half a billion in tax payer monies would go to better American lives. 

Public radio and PBS should be funded by the public. As the names imply. But they're corporate funded and public funded and that's where I think this decision was appropriate and timely. No other administration would have thought to do this. 

 

[Guest]

14 hours ago, shiloh357 said:

 

As for Merrick Garland, Democrats forget that Joe Biden advocated for holding up the nomination of a SCOTUS judge at the end of a presidential term until the next president takes office.    Of course, Democrats, the hypocrites that they are, tend to think that their policies are a one way street.

 

I don't know what this has to do with defunding PBS, but ok.

Biden said hearings should be held up while he was still a Senator, not while he was V.P. This was about a different nomination.

But as I remember it, When Obama nominated Merrick Garland for SCOTUS, it was the republicans who refused to give him a hearing. The republican reasoning was that we were only months away from the election, and whoever the new president would be should be able to nominate the new Judge. I remember the republicans who supported this saying we should "let the voters decide."

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/18/merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-is-wrong-choice-at-wrong-time.html

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by JaniceR

[Guest shiloh357]

2 hours ago, JaniceR said:

I don't know what this has to do with defunding PBS, but ok.

Biden said hearings should be held up while he was still a Senator, not while he was V.P. This was about a different nomination.

But as I remember it, When Obama nominated Merrick Garland for SCOTUS, it was the republicans who refused to give him a hearing. The republican reasoning was that we were only months away from the election, and whoever the new president would be should be able to nominate the new Judge. I remember the republicans who supported this saying we should "let the voters decide."

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/03/18/merrick-garland-obamas-supreme-court-pick-is-wrong-choice-at-wrong-time.html

 

I was responding to another poster. 

That Biden was not the VP is really beside the point.  The point is that the democrats, in the past, had no problem with letting a future president pick the empty SCOTUS seat when it was so close to the new president's inauguration.   Now they are crying foul when they are on the receiving end.  And Republicans didn't act like a bunch of brats about any of Obama's nominees. 

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Just now, shiloh357 said:

I was responding to another poster. 

That Biden was not the VP is really beside the point.  The point is that the democrats, in the past, had no problem with letting a future president pick the empty SCOTUS seat when it was so close to the new president's inauguration.   Now they are crying foul when they are on the receiving end.  And Republicans didn't act like a bunch of brats about any of Obama's nominees. 

yep. Both parties are pretty much the same. That is why Trump won.

[Guest shiloh357]

Just now, JaniceR said:

yep. Both parties are pretty much the same. That is why Trump won.

I used to think they were the same.  But the Democrat Party we see today is not the historic Democrat Party, anymore.  The Democrats we have now are really bizarre and this election really brought out the worst in them.  They didn't care at all about Hillary's corruption.   You could have rolled Hillary out in  a casket they would still voted for her.  It was really disturbing to see how her lies and corruption did not give them even a moment's pause.

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Just now, shiloh357 said:

I used to think they were the same.  But the Democrat Party we see today is not the historic Democrat Party, anymore.  The Democrats we have now are really bizarre and this election really brought out the worst in them.  They didn't care at all about Hillary's corruption.   You could have rolled Hillary out in  a casket they would still voted for her.  It was really disturbing to see how her lies and corruption did not give them even a moment's pause.

I was speaking in the sense that both parties are business as usual, a lot of talk but little action of note. 

I agree with your assessment of Hillary voters, but, I think the same thing applies to Trump supporters. Even he himself said he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters would still support him.

I voted for President Trump because we need to get out of the us/them paradigm and do what is best for the country, instead of what is best for a political party.

[Guest shiloh357]

4 minutes ago, JaniceR said:

I was speaking in the sense that both parties are business as usual, a lot of talk but little action of note. 

I agree with your assessment of Hillary voters, but, I think the same thing applies to Trump supporters. Even he himself said he could shoot someone in the street and his supporters would still support him.

When he said that it was a lame and inappropriate attempt at humor.  Hillary actually has a long list of murder victims in her wake.  Her political enemies have a short life span.  You really cannot compare Trump supporters to Hillary supporters in that way.   There is no moral equivalence there.

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I voted for President Trump because we need to get out of the us/them paradigm and do what is best for the country, instead of what is best for a political party.

And I think he is doing exactly that.