National emergencies are imprudently mulled.
We have already been in a National Emergency from the time that fucked oozed down the escalator in 2015.
Oh yes they are in Trump world.
He’s trying to figure out a way to get a new “Caravan” going or at least find someone to Burn down the Reichstag
I feel like he’s trying for his Bill Clinton “definition of ‘is’” moment by forcing a Supreme Court interpretation of what ‘emergency’ means.
If you read the 1976 statute that created the current law on Presidentially declared emergencies it’s almost the “I Have Decided I Am Now King” statute. Weird.
Of course he’s mulling it. Everything about it would appeal to him. It’s all part of our national abusive relationship, where he has to make a scene and break stuff when he’s upset, and he’s always upset.
Based on that photo of Donnie it would seem his hemorrhoids are acting up again…
The way to nip this in the bud, is for every Democratic candidate for President in 2020 to start talking, right now, about all the things they’d love to enable with a National Emergency Act once they’re in power. Single payer health care, drastic reduction in carbon emissions, high taxes on the wealthy to pay for these legit emergencies.
Make sure every R Senator hears it. They’ll be quaking in their boots, and McConnell will have that little talk with Donnie. Roy Blunt is already hinting at it, but it needs to be made more explicit.
As much as I’d like to see the progressive wish list happen, it’s too dangerous, meant for extreme circumstances. The Executive branch already has too much power as it is.
No surprise from the guy who kept a copy of Hitler’s speeches on his bedside table, and punctuated his breakup with Bannon by throwing away Bannon’s gift, a signed copy of Mein Kampf.
My TPM morning takeaways: choral kabuki theatre with critics for distraction, removing sanctions to cover the vig on what he’s into the Russians for, threats of a looming economic crisis in three weeks, and the very real possibility that no one and nothing either can or will stop this howling, barking mad idiot from pulling the emergency trigger.
For the first time, I’m wondering if now is the time to pack a go bag. Not kidding.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) agreed, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that he hopes “the President doesn’t have to go there.”
“But of course if he does go there, he can count with my full and unconditional support.” Blunt added.
It’s time to bombard Donnie with dictionaries. CLEARLY words don’t mean what he thinks they do.
EMERGENCY a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
Profiles in Courage these Republicans…
My prediction is that he WILL do this because he certainly doesn’t care about the repercussions, etc., and since it will be tied up in court, nothing will happen. The upside? He can claim his fucking victory and we’re done.
Imagine, if you will, a future President, presumably a Democrat but possibly a sensible Republican*, in the aftermath of the next mass shooting where more than 50 people are killed declaring a national emergency and ordering the confiscation of every gun in the country not under the direct control of the military. If that doesn’t stop Republicans from going along with Donnie’s trumped up national emergency, nothing will.
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*I just put that in for laughs.
I believe declaring an emergency when there is no agreement an emergency exists is the first step to a dictator/emperor. Anybody in Congress in either party who doesn’t see that is a damn fool.
Go ahead, Donald, light yourself on fire. You’ll be the talk of the town, again. Everybody will be looking at you very strongly (or big). You will be the center of all things.
You still won’t get more than a hundred miles of your stupid fucking wall, but we’ll have a(nother) lasting monument to your clownitude.
OK, now Donnie is taking on the Republican party? Will he set up his own party. Should I say, partei?
America was having trouble
What a sad, sad story.
Needed a new leader to restore it’s former glory.
Where oh where was he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around,
And then we found,
The man for you and me.
And now it’s Springtime for Trumper, And Amerika.
La de da dah.
He’s pouting in the picture that accompanies the article.