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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts) Tue Mar 14, 2017, 10:47 AM Mar 2017

Congress has abdicated its constitutionally mandated oversight duties of the executive branch

I edited that for space...turned "responsibilities" into "duties"...but it really is that simple. Oh, and we need a special prosecutor right fucking now.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/323724-new-watchdog-group-formed-to-investigate-trump-conflicts

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Congress has abdicated its constitutionally mandated oversight duties of the executive branch (Original Post) LaydeeBug Mar 2017 OP

elections have consequences..who ever expected a conservative congress to give a damn on what beachbum bob Mar 2017 #1

and crime should have consequences too...like election fraud. LaydeeBug Mar 2017 #2

Add those to the long list of responsibilities previously abdicated. n/t Orsino Mar 2017 #3

This is good news. nt leftyladyfrommo Mar 2017 #4

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

1. elections have consequences..who ever expected a conservative congress to give a damn on what

Reply to LaydeeBug (Original post)

Tue Mar 14, 2017, 10:54 AM

Mar 2017

a conservative president is doing when their end game is to destroy govt....not voting or voting 3rd party gave america real evil and we have 2018 coming....this should be all of our focus