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originally posted by: chr0naut
We don't have a transcript, we have a memorandum of the call, which includes a "Caution" clause in its footer explaining that it is not a verbatim transcript.
We have Lt Col Alexander Vindman who was a first hand witness, telling Congress that Trump made "inappropriate" political demands of the Ukrainian President.
There were others, too.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
a reply to: Krakatoa
Thats a whole load of subjective issues. Maybe leave out the "would" and the "interpretation" and the "swaying" and we might come to a conclusion.
But not like this. A memorandum is not a verbatim transcript and in this special case it certainly is really not.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: ChefFox
No, they're not threatening anything... they're just not interested this time. Budget? Budget? Hey, we've got important things, like badger some washed-up ex-diplomat about how being fired hurt their feelings, to do! Don't bother us about a budget!
Yeah, this has me pretty riled up. How much of this nonsense are we going to take before people actually do something about it?
TheRedneck
originally posted by: chr0naut
Please explain why it would be it wrong to defer a revision to the budget, in a time of economic stability?
originally posted by: ChefFox
a reply to: TheRedneck
So democrats arent liking what they are getting from the impeachment inquiry and are now threatening a gov shutdown? are they serious?
I think most of us are highly irritated, but what do we do?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: chr0naut
CBS is Fake News?
Hmmm...
TheRedneck
CBS is propagandist. FoxNews is propagandist. The entire MSM is propagandist and partisan.
Today's news services have assumed that their consumers are idiots and therefore have to explain everything in very simplistic terms. Then little by little, 'commentary' overtook 'news' until now when there are three seconds of facts interspersed with 24x7 live commentary by photogenic talking heads and panels of carefully selected, paid, 'experts'.
Real news just reports truth without embellishment. There isn't much of that around these days.
We all know it.
originally posted by: Wardaddy454
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: chr0naut
CBS is Fake News?
Hmmm...
TheRedneck
CBS is propagandist. FoxNews is propagandist. The entire MSM is propagandist and partisan.
Today's news services have assumed that their consumers are idiots and therefore have to explain everything in very simplistic terms. Then little by little, 'commentary' overtook 'news' until now when there are three seconds of facts interspersed with 24x7 live commentary by photogenic talking heads and panels of carefully selected, paid, 'experts'.
Real news just reports truth without embellishment. There isn't much of that around these days.
We all know it.
Fox to some extant, sure. But, did they bury the Epstein story and witnesses?
Fighting over which of the main companies are propagandists doesn't solve the issue of propaganda actually occurring.
I find it funny that the same people that called out ABC et al for burying/helping to bury the Epstein story, will claim that they are still legitimate sources of information regarding impeachment. Or anything Trump for that matter. Remember, they got pretty quiet about the Trump on Epstien's plane story (especially when the plane in question was not in fact the "lolita express") because they knew it would expose certain other big names.
A 2014 report notes that since fiscal year 1977, Congress has had to rely on federal funding extensions, known as continuing resolutions, at the end of the fiscal year in all but four years. These temporary funding bills, which have lasted anywhere from a few days to a full calendar year, typically extend the previous year’s appropriations for a limited amount of time in order to allow lawmakers time to haggle over funding priorities.
In recent years, these temporary extensions have accounted for an average of nearly four months of federal spending annually. According to more CRS data, from fiscal years 1998 through 2012, Congress averaged 6.1 continuing resolutions annually. Each year, those funding extensions lasted for 126.6 days on average.
Nearly four months into fiscal 2018, Congress has passed none of the dozen spending bills it’s theoretically supposed to enact every year. Instead, lawmakers are on their third stopgap measure, which keeps government operations funded until Jan. 19. Failure to enact full-year spending bills by that date – or, failing that, another short-term measure – would force big chunks of the federal government to shut down.
If all this sounds familiar, it should. Far from being a new symptom of present-day Washington dysfunction, Congress’ chronic inability to follow its own appropriations process goes back decades. In fact, in the four decades since the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in effect, Congress has managed to pass all its required appropriations measures on time only four times: in fiscal 1977 (the first full fiscal year under the current system), 1989, 1995 and 1997.
originally posted by: OOOOOO
Yes, it is quit a joke, strange though I'm not laughing. This morons running our Government, for the past 3 years, have been hell bent on disposing of what should be our "Beloved Chief Executive, The President of The U.S.A.". Instead of taking care of what is at hand for the good of the U.S.A. and it' people's. To much in fighting, bull carp, more than half of them are low life's, crook's at best.
Congress hasn’t properly passed a Budget since 1977.
What does the gang call the OP? Oh yeah, fake news.