Unfortunately, Rand Paul is so concerned with "proper procedure" that he fails to see the more overriding concern --- the ideological war.
If the constitution doesn’t secure our nation or the safety of American citizens, it’s time to ignore it.
Paul is hard to understand. He is against US involvement in foreign wars, but is OK with his own country being invaded.
National Emergency by Jon McNaughton
This states and shows it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKYEE1-U_tc
What Rand Paul doesn’t understand is that Congress gave the President Emergency Declaration powers.
In 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
How’s this work?
I thought an EO or emergency whatever didn’t need congress’ approval.
Do they need 2/3 or a majority to approve or override, I don’t know which.
Enlighten please.
I think he does understand the issue. I am concerned about the emergency declaration as well. How much extra funding is there with the emergency? One way the President can throw this back in Democrats face is to tell them that any spending bill that comes to his desk must have a plan to return to Article 1 Section 8 spending limits. Let them try to respond to that. He will have forced their hand. At the same time, put the military on the border in large numbers.
Rand Paul is our AOC, and unlike the Democrats, we were actually stupid enough to elevate him to the Senate.
“Unfortunately, Rand Paul is so concerned with “proper procedure” that he fails to see the more overriding concern -— the ideological war.”
Damn him. And all of those a-holes who stand on procedure in the face of a serious threat.
I understand Paul’s concern, and if it were some legislation regarding some obscure thing, ok, stand your ground.
President Trump is trying to save the country from the permanent political class and their donors. How about you stand for America and Americans, and not some esoteric BS that makes you feel superior Rand?!
I’m a libertarian but I’m faaaar from an anarchist. Letting anyone walk into your country, en masse, is pure anarchy. It’s not just a lawless emergency, it’s willful negligence to allow it to happen without at least trying to stop it.
Someone needs to take some fentenyl and stuff it up rand paul’s snout.
While I have some appreciation for Paul’s adherence to “principle”, he needs to wake up and realize that we’ve basically lost the republic. The socialists have declared war on us and we have been losing for decades. What Paul is doing is declaring his intention to not fight back. Because principles.
Not a stand I can support at this time.
Libertarian purists like Rand Paul need to understand that there won’t be any Constitution to defend when the country is completely overrun with Meso-American invaders, because when that happens, we will have the cultural and political system of Meso-America - a banana “republic” in place of a Constitutional Republic.
I’ve often felt Sen Rand was more like an Anarchist than a Libertarian.
A well-spoken Anarchist; an Anarchist, just the same.
I posted this yesterday and repeat it now: If Paul was really concerned about Presidents exceeding executive power, he would lead the charge to repeal the law permitting Presidential declaration of emergencies.
But he is not going there. To me, THAT makes him a hypocrite because he is only targeting Trump with this stand. It also makes me suspicious that he, too, is on the take somehow on this border issue. So who might be paying him off here???
Rand Paul is another do nothing Senator. What exactly has he accomplished for the good of the people since he got elected?
Paul is more willing to let the Dems destroy the country and constitution than he is willing to work with Trump on finding creative funding sources.
Runt Paul never was too bright.
Runt Paul never was too bright.
Rand Paul 2024!
Rand Paul, the others of the NEA Four and whomever may join them have chosen the wrong hill to plant their flag upon and thereon die. The act, per se, does not touch the Congress power of the purse and Trump has laid out a roadmap that that uses a multiple approach to financing his intention to build more walls. Most of these methods do not rely on invoking the NEA, in fact, only one may require the NEA. That would be the reprogramming of Military Construction appropriations, something that happens almost every single fiscal year for any number of reasons over the years. To claim that Trump is trampling on the separation of powers is beyond the pale.
A simple legal analysis of the declaration of the NEA and the Trump plan to expand the wall building beyond the appropriations provided in the FY2019 act that ended the partial shutdown clearly show that all of this is legal, Constitutional, and a proper use of Executive power. This suggests that the opposition is both political (the Democrat objection) and kowtowing to corporate donors (the Republicans). Trump acts in the best interests of the country and the American people while Beltway politicians act in their own interests tossing up empty protests claiming their loyal fealty to the Constitution. Nonsense.
Rand Paul thinks this will allow future democrat administrations to do the same thing and will be not an emergency. They will do that anyway. Have the Republicans ever stood in the way of the democrats