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2017-05-14 Government

Senator Grassley to Block CIA Nominee Until Agency Responds to His Letters

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-14 00:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Good, the Mandarinate should (re)learn respect for representatives.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-14 03:59|| 2017-05-14 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Is he going to wait 3 years this time too?

The Congress has become a really bad joke in the last 30 years. Somehow I can't picture Tip O'Neill letting Reagan's executive branch get away with such disrespect as has become normal since GHWB.

Posted by AlanC 2017-05-14 08:17|| 2017-05-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 This the staff of an elementary school telling a class: "if you don't behave, I'm not going to send a substitute teacher in there".
Boy, that'll learn 'em.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-05-14 09:55|| 2017-05-14 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The Congress has become a really bad joke in the last 30 years.

Far more than that. When the decision was made to engage in entangling foreign alliances after WWII, all the power started gravitating to the Executive which the Founders feared in a powerful executive. When in the 60s, it allowed judicial activism take hold in order to avoid making hard decisions (they told us to do this, ergo we're not the blame), power shifted to an unelected and non-representative new aristocracy. When they decided to loot the social security funds for immediate social gratification, the cancer spread without remission. They just want to collect their paychecks and cash in on the insider game. The old republic was bought and sold.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-05-14 10:23|| 2017-05-14 10:23|| Front Page Top

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