Pretty much what I thought, but I wasn’t sure if McConnell/Ryan were going to drop that little tactic now that Trump is in office.
Still, then, why sign the bill? Why not let it slide into law without his signature? His veto likely wouldn’t be upheld, but signing it - even though he didn’t want to - makes him look weak.
Just one more nugget in a shitstorm of ineptitude, I guess.
I think the official rule is that it takes ten days for Congress to enter recess, but they do it every three days for tradition and extra safety sake.
Does it have to be a specific person, or can it be ANY Congress Critter?
[hijack] how does one join a message board in jan 2016 and chose the username of a word that is invented in may 2017? Are you a time traveller? [/hijack]
mc
We can change usernames.
He asked the Mods for a name change after the covfefe incident.
yeziles joined and then name changed to Covfefe.
Joined with another name, changed it later. I did a search but i forget the original name.
Rio, his name was Rio.
I like my explanation better! 
It was actually a rare rule from the AOL days, that said anyone can change to a palindrome of their mother’s maiden name. So Penelope Efefvoc Jablonski’s kid was in luck.
Speaking of palindromes, have you seen the most wonderful Weird Al spoof of Bob Dylan called “Bob”?
Lyrically, each line is a palindrome. Genius, I tell ya’.
I just assumed that covfefe was the guy in the military that programmed the football.
Because I’m pretty sure that “covfefe” was the nuclear code and that the Pentagon went into a tailspin when Trump tweeted it out. After the next round of firings the story will be leaked to WaPo.
Is Donald Trump the same backwards as he is forwards? Anyone understand German?
A comment from the comment section of that video:
“If you listen to it backwards, it’s scary and satanic. If you listen to it regular, it’s 10 times worse”
Great. That’s just what America needed; a backwards Hitler.
I think the idea was, if you veto and the veto is overridden, you look VERY weak, so that’s out.
When the announcement was made that he would sign, there was an effort made to make it seem as though he was involved in dRafting the legislation: he had “negotiated” with Congress and made it a better bill. Made him seem gracious and presidential and a good negotiator; made it seem almost like it was his idea. Well, that was the theory. Don’t know if it would’ve worked. But Trump immediately abandoned that script, so we didn’t have any chance to find out!
Does this mean he has a little patch of ass hair at the top of the crack?
Can someone explain the background to this, to an ignorant Aussie?
If Congress is in recess for three days or more, the president can unilaterally appoint people to positions that normally require Senate approval. The fear is that Trump will wait for a recess, fire Sessions, and hire a rubber-stamp AG who will fire Mueller.
By holding a pro forma session every few days where a single senator gavels the Senate to order and then adjourns a few minutes later, that possibility is prevented.