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Families being torn apart. Doctors being stopped from healing the sick. The elderly and children being bullied, handcuffed, and imprisoned. A probable constitut

Families being torn apart. Doctors being stopped from healing the sick. The elderly and children being bullied, handcuffed, and imprisoned. A probable constitutional crisis. And your concern is that your boss is tweeting something you that makes you feel bad? This is your bed. Lie in it. http://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/handful-still-detained-jfk-under-trump-muslim-ban-attorneys-say http://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/handful-still-detain... https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-executive-order-strands-brooklyn-doctor-in-sudan https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-executive-order-st... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-border-protection-agents-trump-muslim-country-travel-ban https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/customs-bord...

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
I honestly think liberals need to lie in the bed too. Liberals chose to reduce the required votes to effectively confirm cabinet members to prevent Republicans from opposing Obama's nominees... leaving us powerless now to oppose Trump's. Do we have a worst case scenario? It kinda seems like it. But don't sit back and blame the other side when your side is pretty much equally to blame for gutting the checks and balances our government was based on when it was convenient.
- unclenoriega 10y ago
  First, Democrats changed the rules. I'm not sure what the point of saying 'liberals' is. Second, there was nothing to stop Republicans from making the same rule change, or unmaking it. Most importantly, there's no reason to assume two sides to this argument. The United States may have a largely two-party system, but it doesn't follow that there are two sides to every fight.
  - ocdtrekkie 10y ago
    It is literally referred to as the 'nuclear option' because both parties basically knew not to touch it. But after the Democrats did it, the Republicans obviously aren't going to intentionally cripple their own use of it. Mutually Assured Destruction, and Democrats fired first.
- mattnewton 10y ago
  I agree. I think this is a very real wake up call for every American - democrat, republican or independent - about just how large the executive branch's powers have become.

ocdtrekkie 10y ago

I honestly think liberals need to lie in the bed too. Liberals chose to reduce the required votes to effectively confirm cabinet members to prevent Republicans from opposing Obama's nominees... leaving us powerless now to oppose Trump's. Do we have a worst case scenario? It kinda seems like it. But don't sit back and blame the other side when your side is pretty much equally to blame for gutting the checks and balances our government was based on when it was convenient.

unclenoriega 10y ago
First, Democrats changed the rules. I'm not sure what the point of saying 'liberals' is. Second, there was nothing to stop Republicans from making the same rule change, or unmaking it. Most importantly, there's no reason to assume two sides to this argument. The United States may have a largely two-party system, but it doesn't follow that there are two sides to every fight.
- ocdtrekkie 10y ago
  It is literally referred to as the 'nuclear option' because both parties basically knew not to touch it. But after the Democrats did it, the Republicans obviously aren't going to intentionally cripple their own use of it. Mutually Assured Destruction, and Democrats fired first.
mattnewton 10y ago
I agree. I think this is a very real wake up call for every American - democrat, republican or independent - about just how large the executive branch's powers have become.