US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3932

On June 04 2016 00:14 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Can we make an exception and re-vote Obama into office? I mean, Roosevelt served almost four terms.

A little more than a week after attacking New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on the campaign trail in her home state, Donald Trump now says he would like the Republican governor's backing.

“I’d like to have it,” Trump told the Santa Fe New Mexican in an interview published Thursday night. “I respect her. I have always liked her.”

Trump sounded a different note during a May 24 rally in Albuquerque, however, telling a crowd of supporters that their governor, who also chairs the Republican Governors Association, is "not doing the job" on a variety of issues, including his unsubstantiated claim that "Syrian refugees are being relocated in large numbers to New Mexico."

The presumptive Republican nominee also ripped into Martinez for the state's unemployment figures and the state's growing reliance on food stamps under her tenure. “She’s got to do a better job, okay,” Trump said at the time. “Your governor has got to do a better job.”

A host of Republicans jumped to the defense of Martinez, the nation's only Latina governor, including former presidential opponents Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and John Kasich, as well as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who endorsed Trump on Thursday.

On June 03 2016 20:02 NukeD wrote:

But there are legal ways of getting into a country.

On June 04 2016 00:15 LegalLord wrote:
I'd vote for an Obama third term if it were an option. He's better than both frontrunners right now.

On June 04 2016 00:46 kwizach wrote:
Trump's answer to Hillary's speech? Attacks on her delivery and lies with regards to the substance. It's going to be a long five months before her victory in November.

https://twitter.com/LeonHWolf/status/738415591753666564

Exxon has a lot of friends in Congress, but they didn’t come cheap. A study from the Public Accountability Initiative finds 13 members of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology collectively have received at least $98,270 in contributions from ExxonMobil employees and political action committees connected to the company.

Those same 13 committee members, all of them Republican, recently launched a counterinquiry into an investigation scrutinizing whether Exxon deliberately misled the public over the reality of climate change. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched the investigation into Exxon in November; in March he was joined by attorneys general from five other states, plus the attorney general for the Virgin Islands.

In May, the Republican members of the House science committee started their own probe into the Schneiderman investigation. In an open letter to Schneiderman, they described his inquiry as “a coordinated attempt to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations and scientists of their First Amendment rights and ability to fund and conduct scientific research free from intimidation and threats of prosecution.”

In addition to the nearly $100,000 in donations related to Exxon, the Public Accountability Initiative found the 13 committee members had received $2,680,383 in overall contributions from the oil and gas industry. These findings were based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics, and how far back the data went varied depending on which House member was being scrutinized.

Schneiderman’s investigation was intended to look at whether Exxon had made claims about climate change that were belied by its own scientific research. He opened the inquiry just a few months after the Union of Concerned Scientists said it had obtained documents showing Exxon has been aware of the danger posed by man-made climate change for more than 30 years.

On June 03 2016 23:28 farvacola wrote:
The sad thing is that there are plenty of Trump fans who laud him for his lack of both knowledge of and respect for how laws work in this country lol.

On June 04 2016 01:25 xDaunt wrote:

It's kind hard to make the lack of respect for the law attack to stick when it's opposition protesters that are starting riots at his rallies and democrat politicians are actively supporting those protesters.

On June 04 2016 01:28 farvacola wrote:
Trump's own words carry such a distinctive lack of respect for the law that the attack practically sticks itself. That his rallies attract angry members of the opposition is another issue entirely.

On June 04 2016 01:25 xDaunt wrote:

It's kind hard to make the lack of respect for the law attack to stick when it's opposition protesters that are starting riots at his rallies and democrat politicians are actively supporting those protesters.