slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

jamiethekiller wrote:its amazing how he tweets after cable news shows.

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

BOISE, IDAHO
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter says he agrees with President Donald Trump that persecuted Christians should be treated as priority in the U.S. refugee program despite acknowledging that such preference is discriminatory.

"It is," Otter said during an interview on Idaho Public Television's Idaho Reports. "(But) we want a safe country."

"The reason I think he did was because they were being more persecuted than others," Otter said.

When asked if Muslims were also persecuted, Otter said "Probably. I don't know that, but I do know that the Christians are."

pacino wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:its amazing how he tweets after cable news shows.

he doesn't read and is on record as saying he gets his news and political opinions from cable news shows. he's an old crank at the end of the bar ranting and raving about what he saw on FOX the night before. And he has the nuclear codes.

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

One would think Sessions would recuse himself, but I guess that's just silly.

jamiethekiller wrote:

JUburton wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.

Donald Trump wrote:I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!

@BradJaffy
6:09 am: MJoe showed Bannon Time mag cover, played SNL clip of Trump & “President Bannon” & discussed “maybe Bannon’s calling all the shots"

explain this in normal speak

Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed the poetically named Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act, into law last week. This act makes it a felony to perform a D&E, by far the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions, which account for about 11 percent of all terminations in the U.S. The law won’t go into effect until later this year, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas told the Huffington Post that it plans to challenge the law in court before then.
In a D&E, a medical practitioner dilates the cervix and removes fetal tissue with forceps, a scraping tool, and vacuum suction. The same procedure is often used to remove fetal tissue after a miscarriage. The Supreme Court guaranteed women the right to abortion before fetal viability, which experts put around 22 to 24 weeks gestation. The new Arkansas law denies women their right to access abortions in the two and a half months before their fetuses are viable. It makes no exceptions for mental health disorders or the physical health of the pregnant woman unless there’s a severe risk of death or “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

According to the Guttmacher Institute, West Virginia and Mississippi already have D&E bans in effect. (This is likely the reason why the only remaining abortion clinic in West Virginia doesn’t offer abortions past 16 weeks.) Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, and Alabama have also passed D&E bans, but they’re blocked from taking effect while challenges to the policies trickle through the court systems.

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

One would think Sessions would recuse himself, but I guess that's just silly.

Yes, why would he recuse himself?

pacino wrote:

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

One would think Sessions would recuse himself, but I guess that's just silly.

Yes, why would he recuse himself?

he's going to be part of the administration; could be a potential bias.

thephan wrote:Business shift from excited to concerned by the WH

For a "businessman" he is proving to be fairly inept. Sure, there are plenty of reasons to marvel at his success, both that he has captured such wealth and that this has happened disputes that he is as incapable as he appears to be, based on bankruptcy filings alone you can make the second call. He plays the angles, which is arguably smart, and has managed to make a business out of licensing a pretty sketchy name.

To the end, businesses expected the self serving gene to kick in to xplode his wealth, and the lack of controls would raise all the ships (on the back of the workers, Putin would be so proud), but no one could guess that his ego would create such chaos.

I can attest that my firm is being necessarily conservative in our approach as we have no idea what petty to crazy thing happens next that puts our investments at risk. We are only investing in the minimum to sustain our position with minimum risk.

Here is the rub, it's 2 weeks, only two weeks.

pacino wrote:

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

One would think Sessions would recuse himself, but I guess that's just silly.

Yes, why would he recuse himself?

he's going to be part of the administration; could be a potential bias.

TenuredVulture wrote:Is Trump's literacy the new Obama's birth certificate?

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

JUburton wrote:DeVos vote tomorrow. Going to be confirmed.

Yup, 50/50 with Pence deciding.

One would think Sessions would recuse himself, but I guess that's just silly.

Yes, why would he recuse himself?

he's going to be part of the administration; could be a potential bias.

DeVos is awful,but I don't see a reason to recuse. Imagine if it was reversed, and Obama was appointing Al Franken to his administration. If he's still a Senator, he can still do Senator things.

If Sessions does end up voting on other Trump picks, it would be unprecedented: there is no example of a sitting senator who’s been nominated for the Cabinet participating in a roll call vote on another Cabinet-level nomination, according to information from the Senate Historical Office.