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Pelosi junket cancelled
« on: January 17, 2019, 04:51:01 PM »
https://imgur.com/fTtiWSp

I lol'd.  And what business does that harpy have over there anyway?
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2019, 04:57:19 PM »
 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Lesson to be learned? Don't get too high and mighty with the person in charge of your air transportation.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2019, 05:25:28 PM »
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Lesson to be learned? Don't get too high and mighty with the person in charge of your air transportation.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2019, 05:43:39 PM »
Well played, Good Sir. Well played.  =D

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2019, 06:12:45 PM »
Perfect timing too. They were on the bus to leave. And Schiff was on the bus too.  :rofl:

I read, but not sure if true there were some Republicans going on the trip too, but either way hilarious and no one in Congress should be going on a junket, vacation or leaving town while the government is shutdown. The GOP shouldn’t be going on their retreat either that is supposedly this weekend.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2019, 06:37:41 PM »
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Trump added that he feels “it would be better” if Pelosi was in Washington negotiating with him “and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the shutdown.”

“Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative,” Trump noted. “I look forward to seeing you soon and even more forward to watching our open and dangerous Southern Border finally receive the attention, funding and security it so desperately deserves.”

 :lol:

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Sanders, when asked why Trump sent the letter to Pelosi, said, “We want to keep her in Washington. If she leaves she guarantees that the second round of paychecks to workers won’t go out.”

She said Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “always have an invitation” to the White House if they want to come to negotiate.

I would say that Trump won this round.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2019, 06:41:55 PM »
:lol:

I would say that Trump won this round.

Agreed.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2019, 06:45:23 PM »
:lol:

I would say that Trump won this round.

Yup. You can't vote to end the shutdown if you're in another country. I wish more dems and MSM would recognize she doesn't really want to end it, and is not even hiding the fact anymore. All I'm seeing from the MSM is attacks on Trump for grounding her and not one "unbiased journalist" asking about her being gone for days, which drags out the shutdown.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2019, 06:46:15 PM »
:lol:

I would say that Trump won this round.

Let's see if he can win the game.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2019, 06:51:06 PM »
Let's see if he can win the game.

He well may. I won't postulate any 4-D chess, but this thing seems like he is pulling a tarbaby. All these new leftist darlings installed to Congress and instead of getting the wheels on a 2020 progressive platform, everyone is screaming about Trump. And I would bet there was literally screaming in the pelosi motorcade. I think Trump wants more negative media on him.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2019, 06:58:54 PM »
I don't know what she was expecting to happen anyway. It wasn't more than a few days ago that she said she was as powerful as the President, then pulled the SOTU thing. If I were Trump I would have given her a smack down as well. And in fairness, if an R speaker did that to Obama, they would deserve some retaliation as well.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2019, 07:16:41 PM »
 :laugh:

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2019, 07:19:42 PM »
So Trump canceled his delegation to Davos too. Good move.

I’m not sure how useful these economic conferences are. I can sort of see both sides, but good optics for him.

Come on GOP, cancel your retreat this weekend.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2019, 07:22:11 PM »
Come on GOP, cancel your retreat this weekend.

That would be strategically wise, especially after calling out (rightly) the Puerto Rico thing.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2019, 07:24:28 PM »
That would be strategically wise, especially after calling out (rightly) the Puerto Rico thing.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2019, 07:29:37 PM »
We are talking about The Stupid Party™©

True. If they were smart they would hold the retreat somewhere in DC if they go through with it or find a way to do it in the actual capital building even better if they can find an area they can exclude the Dems from. Not sure how that works with areas of the building.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2019, 07:32:52 PM »
You can't vote to end the shutdown if you're in another country.
Being there to vote hasn't really been the problem though, it's what they're voting on. Each side thinks they're winning (or losing less) and they're not giving up any ground in "negotiations".
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2019, 08:26:52 PM »
I don't know what she was expecting to happen anyway. It wasn't more than a few days ago that she said she was as powerful as the President, then pulled the SOTU thing. If I were Trump I would have given her a smack down as well. And in fairness, if an R speaker did that to Obama, they would deserve some retaliation as well.

And if she lets the SOTU address go on he will hammer the Dems on the wall.  Of course if she doesn't let it go on he can hammer Dems on that too.

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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2019, 09:40:10 PM »
We are talking about The Stupid Party™©
And it was past Republican Congressional leadership that earned that nickname.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2019, 11:22:44 PM »
I haven't yet seen an explanation for why the Speaker of the House needs to travel to Afghanistan at all, let alone less than a month into the new term and in the middle of supposedly trying to end a government shutdown.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2019, 12:15:22 AM »
I’m sort of warming up to having a WWF President.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2019, 12:35:32 AM »
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2019, 08:44:11 AM »
I haven't yet seen an explanation for why the Speaker of the House needs to travel to Afghanistan at all, let alone less than a month into the new term and in the middle of supposedly trying to end a government shutdown.
I happened to be listening to radio show I usually don't.  He was responding to people who said she was visiting the troops and they won't like being denied the visit.  The guy said he asked for military personnel to send him horror stories of stuff they had to do when a VIP was visiting.  It was amazing some of the nutty stuff he started reading off.  Most of it sounded like busy work, but some just sounded vindictive.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2019, 12:24:22 PM »
When Pelosi became Speaker the first time, wasn't she the one who demanded an upgrade from a corporate jet (Gulfstream?) to a full-sized airliner for her personal use?

Nasty old harridan sure likes to travel in style . . . at taxpayer expense.
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Re: Pelosi junket cancelled
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2019, 03:41:32 PM »
I haven't yet seen an explanation for why the Speaker of the House needs to travel to Afghanistan at all
Well, here's one:
Congress is a coequal branch of government. Congress must decide whether to finance military excursions, decide what armaments to authorize, and weigh in on policies governing troop use, benefits, and conditions. A trip to a war zone is far from a junket. It requires a lot of preparation; it almost always provides important information to members of Congress and key staff that they just could not fully appreciate from 7,000 miles away; and it involves long work hours and some risk. Just about anyone who has worked on Capitol Hill has seen firsthand from returning members and staff just how eye-opening an experience those trips can be and just how much more focused the subsequent legislative and oversight efforts are.

For those reasons and others, these CODEL trips, short for “congressional delegation,” are usually carried out by military transport, with military organization. The president, as commander in chief, should want leading congressmen to take such trips. And the perfect time to take them is in January of a new term, when little other legislative business is being conducted and when a new legislative year brings the need to reassess policies and missions.

A trip like this is especially important for the speaker of the house, third in line to the presidency. Set aside the particular personality or ideology of Pelosi, and consider the office she holds. Of course she should take occasional CODELs to war zones and to meet with foreign leaders.

I certainly think it can wait until after the shutdown, but a congressional delegation going over there isn't unusual.
Paul Ryan went a few months ago for the same kind of thing.
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