Sen. Marco Rubio warns Trump a border emergency could embolden a future Dem president on climate

cnbc.com ^ | 1/9/19 | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

[ColdOne]

Full title........Sen. Marco Rubio warns Trump a border emergency could embolden a future Dem president on climate change

A national emergency declaration by President Donald Trump over border security could wind up hurting Republicans, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio told CNBC on Wednesday.

The Florida Republican contended that Trump was elected on the promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and the president has to “keep that promise.” But “we have to be careful about endorsing broad uses of executive power,” he added. “I’m not prepared to endorse that right now.”

Such a declaration would set a precedent, Rubio said. “If today, the national emergency is border security ... tomorrow the national emergency might be climate change.” Declaring a national emergency, which would certainly face legal hurdles, could give Trump the ability to use the military to build the wall instead of getting Congress to approve the funding for it.

[SunkenCiv]

What a horse's ass.

[TomGuy]

Typical Republican cowering in the corner, afraid to take a stand that might upset someone from across the aisle.

Wasn’t Rubio was one of the amnesty pushers?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Amnesty Senators MUST be replaced if we want to keep our country.

NONE should be re-elected.

McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven and Rubio were.

We MUST NOT make that mistake again.

[falcon99]

I don’t have much respect for Rubio after his antics during the 2016 election and his Gang of 8 participation, but every time he opens his mouth I lose more of what little respect is left. The guy if a prevaricator of the first degree and has the spine of a noodle.

[cableguymn]

Rubio... Shut up and sit down..

[chiller]

I can't speak to the legalities of a national emergency, but congress has approved wall funding once or twice, pols of both parties have advocated for it.

Climate change....not so much.

[Dogbert41]

This is the problem with the Republican Party as a whole. NONE OF THEM KNOW HOW TO FIGHT. None of them want to fight. None of them believe in anything but being in power. I’m so damned done with the lot of them. At least the Dems stand across from you. The Repubs just stab you in the back and piss on your back and tell you “Tis Rain”.

[rintintin]

GOP establishment, beholden to the cheap labor oligarchs, doesn’t want a wall. They see that an emergency declaration could finally get the wall built. So they’re screaming like stuck pigs

[Leep]

RINO Grubii crashed and burned a long time ago.
And he started out with such promise.
Talk about blowing it.

[Leep]

RINO Rubii crashed and burned a long time ago.
And he started out with such promise.
Talk about blowing it.

[rintintin]

It’s not that the GOP doesnt know how to fight. Just opposite. THEY DONT WANT A WALL - and they fight hard to block it, An emergency declarationncoukd actually get us a wall, without paying the price of amnesty for dreamers. So naturally Rubio and other GOP establishment leaders are fighting it

They know how to fight - they fight for their big donors, and against you and me

[rintintin]

How can you say Rubio doesn’t fight - when right before your eyes he’s fighting against a wall? Wake up and stop drinking the GOP koolaid. GOP is not your friend it exists to service big globalist donors who have no concern for you. Your role is to pay your taxes and send your kids to their foreign wars - and stifle any objections to uncontrolled mass third world immigration

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Such a little coward p***y

[JME_FAN]

To steal a line made famous in the heyday of SNL (when the show was actually funny) ...

Marco, you ignorant, misguided slut!

Does Flori-duh’s senior senator not understand that, no matter what President Trump does or does not do, the communist thugs - otherwise know as Democrats - will use whatever powers available, so to force their fascist “climate change” agenda upon the American people?

Or is the reason for Senator Rubio’s hesitancy in reality his genetic infatuation with unfettered amnesty? Is the truth more a matter of satiating the cheap-labor appetite of his open-borders globalist paymasters?

Methinks the vertically challenged Cuban is more concerned with greasing the palms of his corrupt cronies at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, so to ensure that their member donations continue to flow into lil’ Marco’s campaign coffers.

Senator Rubio is either a naive fool, or else he is a calculating, open-borders RINO POS, who needs President Trump’s size-13 boot swiftly applied to his “foam boy” nut sack, in order to “see the light.”

[mass55th]

What is he talking about? Clinton entered into the Kyoto Agreement without Senate approval, and Obama did the same thing with the Paris accord.

[PrairieLady2]

You’re talking about pre-Trump rinos. It’s just taking a minute for the rest to grow some hair on their...chins. They have their eyes on 2020 also.

Mr. Rubio needs to look at the date in which the constitution was written. The option to call an emergency has been there for a long time.

Also, we are already under several emergencies already.

I do happen to agree that we need better border coverage . I already know what it’s like to have a loved one murdered when fences fail, and drugs are involved. I hate what hard drugs do to addicts, and those who love that addict. You grieve the loss of that loved one even though they still wander around the earth.

I’m glad to see the democrats showing their true colors. It’s setting the stage for what’s coming. As it is, some of the college kids are shocked to learn that the democrats boasted about border safety. More instances like that and these liberal college students will begin to awaken. The stage is being set. Rubio must be kept out of the loop not to know these things.

[Sir Bangaz Cracka]

Exactly what I was just getting ready to say...ditto/lol

[advance_copy]

Liddle Marco can go jump in the lake.

[the_daug]

ditto

[Nifster]

Then do your job already