Their wires must’ve gotten crossed. They’re only supposed to propose balanced budget amendments when Democrats are in power.
They know they’re going to lose the House and probably the Senate, so they want to stick the Democrats with the hard choices. Raise taxes or cut entitlements?
One or the other is probably going to be necessary - probably the tax hike.
Were I a cynical individual, I might suspect that they see the writing on the wall and are anticipating a genuine Blue Wave in the fall and 2020, which they can hobble by saddling a Democratic Congress with a balanced budget amendment. It’s one more way the Republicans can weaken the power of the government to govern. Either that, or it’s all window dressing and they know it will get nowhere.
Actually, I am a cynical individual and I do suspect that it’s one of those things.
ETA: Ninja’d!
IF he gets elected & he shows us proof, I will be first in line to say Obama shouldn’t be the president another day. Hey, wait a second…
Talk about beating a dead horse. Just what exactly would this do given we don’t have a time machine to take us back & make him not president when he still was president. Tose that don’t like him don’t like him & those that do, do. I don’t see how this supposed scandal in going to changed anyone’s mind on a former president. 
By my reckoning, they would need 52 Democrats in the House and 16 in the Senate, along with every single Republican in order to get that on the states’ docket. Just not going to happen. It is a bullshit campaigning scam that will amount to nothing.
Simple, really: If Obama wasn’t qualified to be President, then that makes his whole presidency illegitimate, and everything he did was illegal, null and void, and overturned. Thus: all legislation he signed: Void. Bye-bye Obamacare! Sotomayer and Kagan – off the SCOTUS! And so forth.
No, really; I’m sure the birthers really think this would happen.
Another deplorable troll learns a harsh lesson as the invisible hand flips her the invisible finger:
I want that on a bumper sticker. And I’m putting it on the FRONT bumper.
Republican candidate for Nevada state Assembly tells her supporters to “go after” David Hogg, and retweets a debunked conspiracy theory that Hogg wasn’t at the school at the time of the shooting.
<WWW>FLY, my minions! FLY!</WWW>
Would I get in trouble if I made up a map of Nevada’s Assembly districts and put crosshairs over hers?
Not anymore - it’s still pretty Republican internally, but Hilary Clinton won the county in 2016 ;).
Can you say “Ajit” without putting the “fucking” before “Pai”?
This piece of ass lint wants to eliminate subsidies for connectivity, will would probably cast a lot of people off the internet. Those people who do not belong on it, I guess.
I understand that subsidies are a band-aid fix for absurd rates, but damn, we should try to fix something before breaking it.
The trend is definitely moving Democratic – or at least away from the Republicans – and Democrats are hopeful about taking a couple/few more Congressional seats in OC: Jolted by Trump, Orange County Democrats see a shot at victory on GOP turf
I couldn’t find a newer article, but that LA Times one from 2017 says the Republican advantage in voter registration is down to 3.7% (with a third of voters registered neither R nor D, of course).
Anecdata point: my Republican coworker from Irvine says he’s voting for Dave Min, Democrat, to replace Mimi Walters, obnoxious wingnut. California's 45th congressional district - Wikipedia
Alamosa, Colorado GOP: “Republicans hate poor people”. Repeat. This was posted by a GOP organization.
Hahahaha… This is hilarious. I have to wonder if this truly was an accident or if whoever posted this was purposely trolling the other members of the Alamosa County Republicans.
Or, then again, seeing that this story came out April 1…
The tweet was made March 30. In defense of GOP stupidity, the intended meaning might have been “Republicans hate poverty,” with the moron who wrote it then making a Freudian slip.
“I hate the homeless… [pause to flip to the next cue card] …ness problem that plagues our city.”
According to the original Tweet:
So it’s fair to assume Republicans really do hate poor people because they think that poor people won’t vote Republican, right?