Keystone Cops - government on the move

[Lamplighter]

xoB, that's a good find. I've seen quite a few tribes and nations using
the internet to document their existence and history.

Of course we ("whites") tend to think of their cultures in terms of
battles and killings and reservations and stereotypes therein.
But the tribes are changing too, and are using "our" legal
and belief systems as part of their modern day weaponry.

One thing I find really of interest is that Native Americans have taken
one of our basic legal foundations - Freedom of Region -
using it as a formidable tool in their arsenal.

As just one example, here in the Pacific Northwest,
when the tribes are in negotiation/fight over salmon,
they couch their rights in terms of "religious practices",
not in terms of historic ownership.

I think a similar and ironic situation is the gambling casinos that are taking
large sums of $ from whites, and using the $ to provide health care for their people.

In sort of a "turn your enemy's strength into their weakness", or visa versus,
legal status and rights and courts-of-law and land grants
have replaced the bows/arrows and guns/bullets.

And in the case of the Keystone Pipeline, a Sioux challenge in
federal and state courts could be extensive and very effective.
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[Lamplighter]

UT might be pleased to learn that the GOP leaders read our postings.

Today, Speaker Boehner must have been referring to my post above,
when he said to the Press: "People think we are crazy."

So for now, the GOP battle cry is not "Obamacare !" or "Benghazi !" or "Keystone !".
For the next 3 weeks, the GOP whoop will be: " IMMIGRATION ! "

Instead of shutting down the Dept of Homeland Security over the Keystone Pipeline,
the GOP will now set about shutting down the D.H.S. over
the President's Executive Order for prioritizing "Immigration".

Now to be straight... The President's Executive Order has already been stopped by that Texas judge,
so there is no Executive Order for the GOP to stomp into the muck. But damn the torpedoes,
they are going to fight it anyway.

In other words, the GOP has now declared they would rather fight than win.
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[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

xoB, that's a good find. I've seen quite a few tribes and nations using
the internet to document their existence and history.

Ah, so they've learned to use revisionist history, I didn't realize they were republicans.

[Lamplighter]

Back to the Keystone Cops...

This article is about GOP House Speaker Boehner vs. his fellow House Republicans.

LA Times - Lisa Mascaro - 2/27/15
Boehner plan for stop-gap bill funding Homeland Security runs into trouble in House

House Speaker John A. Boehner's plan to approve a three-week stopgap bill
to keep the Department of Homeland Security fully operating ran into trouble
among his fellow Republicans on Friday, prolonging a standoff as a midnight deadline loomed.

House leaders had hoped to hold a vote on the bill early Friday afternoon,
but postponed it amid fears that they lacked votes for passage.

Earlier in the day, the Senate overwhelmingly approved funds for the department,
dropping an effort by Republican conservatives to use its budget as leverage
to try to force changes in President Obama's immigration policies <snip>

I don't quite believe it's a matter of the "other side" trying to show they can’t govern.
The GOP is doing so all by themselves.

And one more thing... Today, one of the choices for the GOP Presidential candidacy
made a remarkably clairvoyant statement to his fellow Republicans...

Jeb Bush said: "I hope you find me your second best choice."

[xoxoxoBruce]

But if I fall on my face, it has to be because my nemesis tripped me, even if he was out of town, and I have three toadies employees who will swear to it.

[Lamplighter]

The Senate passed a one week "Patch" on the budget bill and went home.
Speaker Boehner got the House to do the same.

So in a week, we'll all be singing...

[Lamplighter]

Shutdown of Homeland Security averted as Pelosi comes to rescue
The Hill - Rebecca Shabad - 02/27/15

A partial government shutdown was narrowly avoided late Friday evening as
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made a surprise move to back
legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for one week.

Pelosi’s support helped Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio - ) move
the one-week bill through the House in a 357-60 vote just after 10 p.m.,...
President Obama signed the bill just before midnight.
<snip>
Pelosi came to the rescue late Friday evening, sending a letter to Democrats urging them to vote for
a one-week continuing resolution (CR) of Homeland Security funding without any immigration riders.

<snip>
If Democrats stay united against the conference committee, Republicans will again be at a stalemate,
lacking the 60 votes that would be needed to break the filibuster.

That could leave the “clean” funding bill as the only way out.

So, it's ironic that even when she is not in power as Speaker, Nancy Pelosi
has more clout than the GOP's elected leader of the House, John Boehner.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not as speaker, but still in power.