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do the taxpayers really need to spend millions of dollars so that trump can get someone "famous enough" to sing one song?

if nobody wants to do it for free, then who cares. do some karaoke or someshit.
 
January 20. The end of the world as we know it.

Whine on!
 
Denny Crane said:
January 20. The end of the world as we know it.

Whine on!
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Hehehehe :)
 
Apparently the term "A-List" is now a catchall phrase defined as people who were never a mega-star, people who used to be a mega star years and years ago but are now Vegas hacks with no voice, or people whom 95% of Real Americans would never pay to see in person for any reason.

And Garth Brooks.
 
No one needs to perform at Trumps Inauguration except John Roberts and Donald Trump. I imagine they will do it well enough.
Perhaps the day will climax with the signing of the first roll back of an Obama brain fart.
 
MarAzul said:
No one needs to perform at Trumps Inauguration except John Roberts and Donald Trump. I imagine they will do it well enough.
Perhaps the day will climax with the signing of the first roll back of an Obama brain fart.
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That will be a fine Inauguration.
 
Denny Crane said:
Did you read it?
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Yes I did.

I sure don't see anything that strengthens ethics. Nothing that fits the cry to drain the swamp.

Did you read it in the 2 minutes between mine and your posts?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Yes I did.

I sure don't see anything that strengthens ethics. Nothing that fits the cry to drain the swamp.

Did you read it in the 2 minutes between mine and your posts?
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Looks to me like they're keeping the ethics committee and adding a complaint committee.
 
Denny Crane said:
Did you read it?
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Washington (CNN) House Republicans voted 119-74 Monday night in favor of a proposal that would gut Congress' outside ethics watchdog and remove its independence.

Republican Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte's proposal would place the independent Office of Congressional Ethics -- an initial watchdog for House members but without power to punish members -- under oversight of those very lawmakers.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and other top GOP leaders opposed the change to ethics rules, but rank-and-file members disregarded their views and voted to approve the new structure for ethics reviews going forward, according to a senior House GOP leadership source familiar with the closed door discussion.

The proposal would bar the panel from reviewing any violation of criminal law by members of Congress.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/polit...hics-oversight-of-ethics-committee-amendment/



House Republicans gut their own oversight

The Office of Congressional Ethics would be weakened and lose its independence.

In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted to gut their own independent ethics watchdog — a huge blow to cheerleaders of congressional oversight and one that dismantles major reforms adopted after the Jack Abramoff scandal.

Despite a warning from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Republicans on Monday adopted a proposal by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) to put the Office of Congressional Ethics under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee.

The office currently has free rein, enabling investigators to pursue allegations and then recommend further action to the House Ethics Committee as they see fit.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/house-republicans-gut-their-own-oversight-233111
 
Reduces bogus accusations.

The committee always was the hound guarding the rooster house.

I wouldn't trust CNN's take on much.
 
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-votes-to-defang-outside-ethics-panel/article/2610727

I'll summarize.

Over 1/2 the complaints were never filed with the ethics committee. Meaning there was no there there.

The new rules still allow outside groups to file complaints. The charges won't be made public as before.

The senate has no similar rule.

The democrats did another close the gate after the bull left the coral. Under the old rules, Jack Abramoff was busted and sent to prison. The new rule prevents nothing.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Here are multiple outlets reporting this. None are saying this is a good thing.

https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dPRPD2NPi3b3wFMNw4ufHv_9V6XUM&q=House GOP ethics&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUzYX-9KTRAhUSxGMKHT3_C98QqgIIJTAA

If this was such an honorable thing they wouldn't be doing it on a holiday when most people aren't paying attention to the news.
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This congress wants to do it, not wait until the next one.

Obama is getting in all the worst things he can at the same time.

Welcome to D.C.
 
Denny Crane said:
I'll summarize.

Meaning there was no there there.
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Why not just quote the article you just linked instead of making up some babbling summary?

From your link.

House Republicans on Monday quietly voted to strip the independent power from an outside ethics panel established eight years ago following a string of corruption scandals, a move they made just hours before the start of the 115th Congress,

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The provision's most important feature changes the OCE from an independent entity to a body that falls under the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee, a 10-member, bipartisan committee of lawmakers that rarely hands out serious punishment.


Come on Denny, this is the top thing, first on the list, that needed to be done this year? All of the problems we're facing as nation and weakening the ethics laws is what is done first?
 
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