Words fail me.
Mmkay …
A smarter man (and it does not take much to qualify as smarter than our president) would have realized back when he welched on his DACA deal in back in eaerly-2018 that he was going to make any future negotiations much harder for himself. Pelosi & Schumer struck a deal with Trump, and then Trump backed out of the deal. Fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. The only sane conclusion that Pelosi and Schumer can draw from the experience is that Trump does not negotiate in good faith, and therefore negotiating with him is not worth the effort. He should have thought about those sort of long term consequences back when he welched. If, however, the president were capable of considering long-term consequences, this would be a very different administration.
Now Donnie is trying to win back Ann Coulter plus the deplorables of which there are far too many.
Schumer said he hoped Spankee learned something. Clearly, he didn’t and Prez Coulter is pulling the strings again.
The more important question is whether McTurtle learned anything from this.
Guess we’ll find out in three weeks.
Yeah, we’re all real scared, very big threat, super serious, you’re very powerful (and strong) and definitely not a weak-willed coward who backs down every time on everything.
This is just reflexive bile-spewing, and it’s pitiful.
Roll back over, dog.
He will do no such thing. This is just like the end of the 95-96 shutdown. We came out of a dark winter, and then suddenly the Dems knew they won and Clinton knew he won re-election. The GOP caved on everything after that b/c they were gun shy. Even when they were impeaching Clinton in his second term, they still caved to almost every one of his major policy demands.
Republicans have no more stomach for ‘wall’. If he declares a national emergency, they will even send some of their AGs to intervene against it. I am perfectly happy for President Kamala Harris to declare a national emergency on health care and authorize Medi buy in for all within 30 days, and to authorize a diversion of any Federal monies necessary to build out clinics and hospitals needed to serve the underserved areas.
Pssst, Donnie! Federal judges are pretty hip to the fact that an “emergency” isn’t something that can wait for a couple of months after you start talking about declaring that one exists.
That doesn’t even take any fancy lawyering. They go with the dictionary definition. And that definition does not say “it’s an emergency if I don’t get my way.”
Who knew this governing stuff was so hard?
Boy cries wolf
This is one of those emergencies that you can just leave up on a high shelf for later use. It’s not, you know, a right-now emergency, where you’d have to react immediately, or at least first thing after the weekend. More of a longest-permanent-floating emergency kind of thing.
This is one of the most pathetic just going through the motions displays I’ve ever witnessed.
I’m repeating myself, again, but if he declares a National Emergency then someone should propose that we take the $3billion+/year money from Israel and the matching funds we give Egypt and use that to fund this stupid ass wall.
I don’t even care if the proposal fails - I want to see the discussion where all those who think a wall is vital to our national security suddenly find a plethora of excuses why Israel’s welfare check is more important. I think that would cause a rift in the GOP and maybe weed out a few Israel-Firsters on the D side, too.
Like calling to make a reservation to the emergency room two months in advance.
Like calling 911 and saying “please hold.”
As if Pelosi and Schumer haven’t already expected this shit from him.
Ha ha ha Trump doesn’t know that the House Speaker can call a vote to challenge his declaration of a state of emergency. By law that forces a vote in 15 days, NOT subject to a Senate point of order (no filibuster) if it clears the US House (which it will).
So Gardener, Collins. McSally (AZ), and to some extend the Florida Senators and John Cornyn (because of their states demographics) would all be on the hot seat on that vote.
I’m usually pretty pessimistic about how the five Republican political operatives currently impersonating justices on SCOTUS will rule on outrageous acts by Republican government in general and Unser Drumpfenfuhrer in particular. However, such an invocation of emergency powers by Dear Leader may be a bridge too far for Roberts (though almost certainly not for Thomas; I’m agnostic, but not hopeful, on the other three). While the extent of the president’s emergency powers appear pretty vague and in dispute, they almost certainly are operative only in real emergencies in which there is no time for ordinary procedures to be followed–such as Congressional action. If SCOTUS ruled that the president could invoke emergency powers and undertake to do what Congress has explicitly refused to authorize him to do after a debate of weeks and months…well, quite simply we no longer have a democracy. I don’t think Roberts, who seems to be attempting to retain at least a veneer of legitimacy for SCOTUS, is ready to go that far. Since I’m rarely wrong when being pessimistic about the Court, I hope I am right in one of the rare cases that I am optimistic.
Bullshit. Not even the orange-mouthed wingnuts believe him. If it was not an emergency today, it’s not going to be an emergency in three weeks. He wanted 5.7 billion, then asked for a “downpayment”, now begging for a “tip”. He is negotiating with himself.
For the 45th time. Everyone yawns.
Wait, you mean this isn’t right?