2016 Republican Primary

[BDKJMU]

Now at 1239:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6fb6b090 ... nomination

Now it is officially over. No more talk of contested conventions. Virtually 100% Trump is the Republican nominee..

[Ivytalk]

Now at 1239:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6fb6b090 ... nomination

Now it is officially over. No more talk of contested conventions. Virtually 100% Trump is the Republican nominee..

And I'm sure you're pleased with yourself.

[kalm]

Interesting...

How this Colorado history teacher and 400 of her fellow delegates are planning to block Trump in Cleveland

One week ago, the Washington Post reported that dozens of Republican convention delegates had hatched “a new plan” to block a stumbling Donald Trump in Cleveland by adding a “conscience clause” to the convention’s rules.

As regular Unconventional readers know, there is a convincing case to be made — and in his new e-book Unbound, Rules Committee member Curly Haugland of North Dakota makes it — that Republican convention delegates are already technically free to nominate whomever they want in Cleveland, despite the impression that they are bound by the results of the primary votes in each state.

A conscience clause would make this freedom explicit by saying that every delegate is allowed to vote his or her conscience on the first ballot — even if state laws or party rules say otherwise.

At first, this new “Dump Trump” faction was fairly small. Roughly 30 delegates from 15 states participated in a conference call last Thursday night. Since then, however, the unlikely campaign appears to have picked up steam. A second conference call on Sunday night attracted a claimed 1,000 participants, and this week, both the RNC and Trump have begun to fight back with delegate strategies of their own.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unconvention ... 00818.html

[houndawg]

Interesting...

How this Colorado history teacher and 400 of her fellow delegates are planning to block Trump in Cleveland

One week ago, the Washington Post reported that dozens of Republican convention delegates had hatched “a new plan” to block a stumbling Donald Trump in Cleveland by adding a “conscience clause” to the convention’s rules.

As regular Unconventional readers know, there is a convincing case to be made — and in his new e-book Unbound, Rules Committee member Curly Haugland of North Dakota makes it — that Republican convention delegates are already technically free to nominate whomever they want in Cleveland, despite the impression that they are bound by the results of the primary votes in each state.

A conscience clause would make this freedom explicit by saying that every delegate is allowed to vote his or her conscience on the first ballot — even if state laws or party rules say otherwise.

At first, this new “Dump Trump” faction was fairly small. Roughly 30 delegates from 15 states participated in a conference call last Thursday night. Since then, however, the unlikely campaign appears to have picked up steam. A second conference call on Sunday night attracted a claimed 1,000 participants, and this week, both the RNC and Trump have begun to fight back with delegate strategies of their own.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unconvention ... 00818.html

Let's call it the Wasserman-Schultz Effect!

[houndawg]

Expanding federal benefits to gay couples before same-sex marriage was legalized, increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors, adding mental illnesses to background checks for gun purchases, the large amount of Environmental mandates (most than any other President), upgrading the frankly inefficient technology the US government has been using in day-to-day operations, and the big one being the deferral of deportation of those who came into the US illegally as children (DACA).

There's also a lot more that have a decent amount of significance to them: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... ive-orders

So it sounds like you support Obama's unconstitutional usurpation of Congressional power and the rise of the administrative state.

He's working within the system. We'll be OK. Checks and balances, bro...

[houndawg]

To be fair, it was a cornerstone part of President Obama's 2008 campaign, although Congress did ultimately do the leg work on it.

The whimpering milquetoasts that pass for conks here would jack-off daily while reading the ACA if we had called it The Heritage Foundation Plan.