Thank you again, firebaggers for twice electing Paul LaPage.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-drive-emoprogs-crazy-say.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/stephen-king-governor-lapage-should-do.html
However, Democrats should take advantage of LaPage's new insanity for messing up his own vetoes rather than admit he made a mistake:
We've talked a lot lately about the Greeks and their euro problems but one thing they said that seems to have meaning here is 'Pride goeth before a Fall.'
"As you may have seen earlier in the week, LePage seemed by all accounts except his own to have catastrophically botched vetoing nearly 20 bills the legislature had already passed, many or all of which he vehemently opposed."
"In LePage's telling, this was all part of his plan, not a botched veto, but a particular interpretation of the Maine constitution that should be obvious to anyone. Except it wasn't obvious, and hasn't been the custom or practice in the state. His interpretation smelled very much like an after-the-fact legal rationale to try escape the bind he put himself in.
But now LePage is going one step further."
"Amazingly, he's treating another 50+ bills already passed by the legislature in the exact same way: holding on to them way beyond the 10-day deadline the constitution gives him to veto them. Normally that means they automatically become law, but LePage is arguing that's he's got more time because the legislature "adjourned." I won't get into all the minutiae here. Tierney Sneed catches you up on this latest weirdness here."
"Normally, you would deduce that maybe the governor did have a plan all along. No one in their right mind would jeopardize his veto power over dozens of other bills unless he was really, really sure of his plan and the legal basis for it. Right? But this is LePage. And the way he operates suggests that he's the kind of guy who, having been caught screwing up big time, would not only deny it was a screw up at all, but continue to extend the screw up in more elaborate and dramatic ways just to prove his point that he intended this outcome all along."
"If that sounds more like a teenager playing chicken than a grown man governing a state, you're starting to get the idea of how surreal it's been in Maine under LePage's leadership. But this veto fiasco could be the coup de grace of LePage's reign of increasing bizarreness. It may very well end up in court when the legislature refuses to accept his purported veto. LePage says he welcomes a court fight. If LePage loses, and some 70 bills that he planned to veto become law (that he wants to veto a whopping 70 bills is another mind-boggling aspect of his veto shenanigans), LePage will have fatally overplayed his hand. But if he somehow prevails in court, all bets are off and LePage will be unabated and able to continue to act with unchallenged impunity."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lepage-maine-veto
The Democrats ought to realize it's open season-they can now pass any bill they want with impunity. Remember, to prove a point he'll wait till it's too late to veto it.
This story also underscores how obstinate the GOP truly is. No wonder they continue to embrace the Confederate flag
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-boehner-confederate-flag
It actually came from the top-Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, and that old friend of David Duke, Steve Scalise,
I somehow think that this story is related to LaPage's antics. The GOP as a very conservative party is allergic to learning from their mistakes-as they resist having to admit they have made any.
It takes comical proportions with LaPage compounding his own error to deny he made an error but this is what happened with immigration too, the one area the GOP had admitted after 2012 they needed to substantively improve on-rather than just better packaging.
Now the party is in such a bind with Donald Trump leading the party because of blatant prejudice against Mexicans.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-drive-emoprogs-crazy-say.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/stephen-king-governor-lapage-should-do.html
However, Democrats should take advantage of LaPage's new insanity for messing up his own vetoes rather than admit he made a mistake:
We've talked a lot lately about the Greeks and their euro problems but one thing they said that seems to have meaning here is 'Pride goeth before a Fall.'
"As you may have seen earlier in the week, LePage seemed by all accounts except his own to have catastrophically botched vetoing nearly 20 bills the legislature had already passed, many or all of which he vehemently opposed."
"In LePage's telling, this was all part of his plan, not a botched veto, but a particular interpretation of the Maine constitution that should be obvious to anyone. Except it wasn't obvious, and hasn't been the custom or practice in the state. His interpretation smelled very much like an after-the-fact legal rationale to try escape the bind he put himself in.
But now LePage is going one step further."
"Amazingly, he's treating another 50+ bills already passed by the legislature in the exact same way: holding on to them way beyond the 10-day deadline the constitution gives him to veto them. Normally that means they automatically become law, but LePage is arguing that's he's got more time because the legislature "adjourned." I won't get into all the minutiae here. Tierney Sneed catches you up on this latest weirdness here."
"Normally, you would deduce that maybe the governor did have a plan all along. No one in their right mind would jeopardize his veto power over dozens of other bills unless he was really, really sure of his plan and the legal basis for it. Right? But this is LePage. And the way he operates suggests that he's the kind of guy who, having been caught screwing up big time, would not only deny it was a screw up at all, but continue to extend the screw up in more elaborate and dramatic ways just to prove his point that he intended this outcome all along."
"If that sounds more like a teenager playing chicken than a grown man governing a state, you're starting to get the idea of how surreal it's been in Maine under LePage's leadership. But this veto fiasco could be the coup de grace of LePage's reign of increasing bizarreness. It may very well end up in court when the legislature refuses to accept his purported veto. LePage says he welcomes a court fight. If LePage loses, and some 70 bills that he planned to veto become law (that he wants to veto a whopping 70 bills is another mind-boggling aspect of his veto shenanigans), LePage will have fatally overplayed his hand. But if he somehow prevails in court, all bets are off and LePage will be unabated and able to continue to act with unchallenged impunity."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lepage-maine-veto
The Democrats ought to realize it's open season-they can now pass any bill they want with impunity. Remember, to prove a point he'll wait till it's too late to veto it.
This story also underscores how obstinate the GOP truly is. No wonder they continue to embrace the Confederate flag
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-boehner-confederate-flag
It actually came from the top-Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, and that old friend of David Duke, Steve Scalise,
I somehow think that this story is related to LaPage's antics. The GOP as a very conservative party is allergic to learning from their mistakes-as they resist having to admit they have made any.
It takes comical proportions with LaPage compounding his own error to deny he made an error but this is what happened with immigration too, the one area the GOP had admitted after 2012 they needed to substantively improve on-rather than just better packaging.
Now the party is in such a bind with Donald Trump leading the party because of blatant prejudice against Mexicans.
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