The Maine House and Senate each rejected 65 vetoes
sent to them from Republican moron Paul LePage on Thursday, forcing a
probable showdown in the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. House Speaker
Mark Eves, a Democrat, and Senate President Michael Thibodeau, a
Republican, both refused to consider the vetoes, because LePage held the
bills for over ten days without acting on them. LePage initially was attempting to “pocket veto” much of the legislation, but the law only allows pocket vetoes when the legislature adjourns.
However, LePage was unwilling to admit his
procedural error and instead double downed insisting that lawmakers
should bend to his imperial dictates rather than follow Maine law. Now
LePage will have to hope the courts agree with his twisted
interpretation of the governor’s powers, because the legislature clearly
does not.
House Speaker Mark Eves declared the moron’s behavior as out of order, and flatly rejected the vetoes, stating:
You cannot veto a law. This legislation is already law, in accordance with the Constitution, history and precedent. The governor’s veto attempts are out of order and in error. He missed the deadline to veto the bills.
If the Maine Supreme Judicial Court sides with the
legislature, LePage’s strategy will backfire as one of the most
cataclysmic blunders in government history. 65 pieces of legislation
that LePage opposes may have become law, because the teabagger moron
can’t abide by the correct process for vetoing legislation he is
against.
LePage
has proven time and again that he is either too arrogant or too foolish
to serve as governor of his state. He has repeatedly attempted to bully
lawmakers, but on July 16th they may have exacted their payback. Dozens
of bills that LePage opposed are now law, unless Maine’s Supreme
Judicial Court decides to side with the moron by choosing to overturn
those laws. Unless the court is unusually partisan, there is no reason
to expect that they will rule in the moron’s favor.
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