2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDeal reached to keep US government running, help Flint
I wonder - did Obama "take one on the chin" (veto override) for the team?Great news, anyway!
Source: AP, by Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram
House Speaker Paul Ryan said the breakthrough on Flint "will help unlock" the short-term government spending bill, which has been stalled in the Senate.
The deal would avert a potential federal shutdown and comes just three days before the midnight deadline to keep the government open. It caps a lengthy battle over Zika spending, a months' long struggle over Flint, and late pressure to provide flood aid to Louisiana. The politicking and power plays enormously complicated what should have been a routine measure to avoid an election-eve government shutdown.
Read it at: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_RDP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-09-28-11-26-50
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)That was a blocking point for Repubs last week.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)had been removed already.
Now they cave on Flint funding issue!
The Republican leadership does not want to be sitting on a government shutdown before the election!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Mr. President is right,we just opened the door for Trillions in Law Suits from around the world. Our National hands are not clean in this debate. Might is Right,is not going to cut it.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)they will "fix this" in the lame duck session, make it just particular to this one 9/11 situation with Saudi Arabia.
This is going to be one hell of a lame duck session as Obama goes out with a BANG!
Also - what if Saudi Arabia spent a "couple dollars" defending themselves in a US court? What if Obama and Hillary actually did get "the right guy"?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this is going to leave one heck of a stain on the USA underwear. Remember what Reagan and the CIA did in Latin America,how about Iraq,and that is just for starters.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Hundreds of years of Treaties and letters of understanding are now in jeopardy.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)could Obama have taken a "quid" on this issue to get a "quo" on funding the government through the election, and all the issues the Republicans dropped?
"Quid pro quo"? Three-dimensional chess?
Obama did not seem worried - and did little about this veto override. In fact, THIS from Obama press secretary seems just a bit of hyperbolic, over-the-top gamesmanship to me, considering the last 6 years:
It's "the single most embarrassing thing the United States Senate has done possibly since 1983," he told reporters after news broke of the Senate's 97-to-1 vote.
Earnest was answering a question about the size of the override, which was the largest margin since the Senate voted 95 to 0 in 1983 to override a veto by former President Ronald Reagan.
I think Obama outplayed them once again! But the game goes on until the lame duck session is over!
http://www.businessinsider.com/josh-earnest-embarassing-senate-override-2016-9