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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsU.S. Rep. Ken Buck: "Congress is letting Trump down, not the other way around."
In a blistering critique of his Republican colleagues, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck on Saturday ripped the U.S. Senate for inaction on issues ranging from health care to financial regulations.
Congress is letting this president down, not the other way around, Buck told thousands of grassroots conservatives at the Western Conservative Summit in Downtown Denver. This president is leading, and Congress needs to figure out how to get things onto his desk.
Bucks comments came on a panel discussion featuring members of the House Freedom Caucus, an influential group of hardline conservative lawmakers of which the Colorado Republican is a member.
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http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/22/ken-buck-donald-trump-congress/
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This is so fucking embarrassing, he's my alleged representative. ggaaahhhhh.........
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dalton99a
(81,730 posts)oasis
(49,543 posts)Duppers
(28,137 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,378 posts)Solly Mack
(90,813 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)How is President Trump "leading"? Is it the way he goes golfing every weekend? The juvenile tweets at 5 a.m.? The way he pouts and whines about how "unfair" everything and everyone is? Do these antics impress you? Are they the hallmarks of a leader in your book? What, exactly, is your measure for how Trump is "leading"?
CousinIT
(9,301 posts)HA.
I don't think so. Pfft.
If he is, he's leading the US straight into a Somalia-style shitter.
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Doodley
(9,185 posts)Buck said (on the Russia investigations):
"people are going to be raising this issue just like people raised the birth certificate or other issues on President Obama that I didnt think were credible but that some people did."
https://coloradopolitics.com/colorados-ken-buck-on-koa-compares-trump-and-russia-to-birth-certificate-and-obama/
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Cosmocat
(14,602 posts)insane...
Midnight Writer
(21,919 posts)Does he wear a cowboy hat? Chaps? Big mustache? Drive a Bronco?
Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)I so wish housing in Boulder was more affordable.
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)he's leading the country straight into a constitutional crisis.
Other than that though, he couldn't lead a Republican to Russian bribe money.
LonePirate
(13,456 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Doc Coco
(58 posts)Governor or Attorney General?
In either case, he's history. Way past history. Have the The Stupids from the Northfuckistan woke up from the Republican antics yet?
no_hypocrisy
(46,373 posts)even if it's the same party as the President.
Congress' mission is not to rubberstamp the policies of the President.
Rep. Buck is proposes enabling a treasonous President.
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