Why, do you suppose, did Obama decide to start a debate with Trump about whether or not Obama would have beaten him? Seems out of character for Obama and a totally unnecessary diversion of attention from Trump’s behavior as President Elect. Probably a quarrel with the Clintons as well. Too bad.
And I am not a fan of worrying about distracting attention from Trump’s actions.
I am a fan of Dems bringing guns to this gun fight. Like this:
“Yet the GOP paid no price for this deeply irresponsible course of action. Indeed, by so often thwarting Obama and making the federal government seem completely incompetent, they rewarded themselves, as the antigovernment party and as the party “out of power” (in the executive branch, anyway), with the political fruits of partisan gridlock and dysfunction. Yet now, Republicans expect Obama to play by the rules they so often disregarded and give way to the new regime gracefully.
If Obama is indeed in the mood for a final act of defiance toward these vandals, what can he do? Last-minute regulations (apart from some hard-to-reverse environmental actions that he has already taken like offshore drilling bans that are issued for fixed terms) aren’t very fruitful; some can be simply revoked by Trump or his agency appointees, and others Congress can kill under the Congressional Review Act. Yes, he retains the power to pardon right up to the end, but that’s not going to place a more permanent Obama stamp on the public sector.
That leaves one potentially big stick in Obama’s rapidly shrinking arsenal: recess appointments of judges to fill scores of federal-bench vacancies — up to and including Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court…..
For everyone who really cares about the issue of exposing and working to end horrific cruelty to farm animals at Big Ag farm factories, and wants to help fund undercover investigations and opposition to the push for AG-gag laws–including by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, soon to be a Trump cabinet member–there is a $1 million donation-match challenge by a donor to Mercy for Animals, the main organization that does the undercover work in this country and in Mexico.
Why, do you suppose, did Obama decide to start a debate with Trump about whether or not Obama would have beaten him? Seems out of character for Obama and a totally unnecessary diversion of attention from Trump’s behavior as President Elect. Probably a quarrel with the Clintons as well. Too bad.
Agreed, doesn’t make a lot of sense.
However, maybe he is telling the DP that they better have a person of color(at least one) on the next ticket to get the base out.
And I am not a fan of worrying about distracting attention from Trump’s actions.
I am a fan of Dems bringing guns to this gun fight. Like this:
“Yet the GOP paid no price for this deeply irresponsible course of action. Indeed, by so often thwarting Obama and making the federal government seem completely incompetent, they rewarded themselves, as the antigovernment party and as the party “out of power” (in the executive branch, anyway), with the political fruits of partisan gridlock and dysfunction. Yet now, Republicans expect Obama to play by the rules they so often disregarded and give way to the new regime gracefully.
If Obama is indeed in the mood for a final act of defiance toward these vandals, what can he do? Last-minute regulations (apart from some hard-to-reverse environmental actions that he has already taken like offshore drilling bans that are issued for fixed terms) aren’t very fruitful; some can be simply revoked by Trump or his agency appointees, and others Congress can kill under the Congressional Review Act. Yes, he retains the power to pardon right up to the end, but that’s not going to place a more permanent Obama stamp on the public sector.
That leaves one potentially big stick in Obama’s rapidly shrinking arsenal: recess appointments of judges to fill scores of federal-bench vacancies — up to and including Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court…..
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/how-obama-could-still-go-nuclear-on-trump-and-the-gop.html
For everyone who really cares about the issue of exposing and working to end horrific cruelty to farm animals at Big Ag farm factories, and wants to help fund undercover investigations and opposition to the push for AG-gag laws–including by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, soon to be a Trump cabinet member–there is a $1 million donation-match challenge by a donor to Mercy for Animals, the main organization that does the undercover work in this country and in Mexico.
Here’s the link:
https://donate.mercyforanimals.org/checkout/donation?email=beverlymann2%40yahoo.com&first=Beverly&last=Mann&street=&city=Gainesville&state=FL&zip=&eid=108866
The deadline, as with so many other donor-match drives this time of year, is for obvious reasons, Dec. 31.