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McConnell reportedly warned Trump about emergency declaration to build border wall
The Hill ^ | Feb 2 2019 | TAL AXELROD

Posted on 02/02/2019 2:44:13 PM PST by rintintin

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly warned President Trump this week that declaring a national emergency to build his U.S.-Mexico border wall could create a rift in the GOP conference.

The Washington Post reported Friday that McConnell told Trump the Senate could pass a resolution disapproving the emergency declaratioN.

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To: rintintin

He should not declare an emergency, just send the military down to the border and build the wall.

Even the Pentagon says he can do that.

If the Republican Senators want to get in Trump’s grill, then it is time for massive civil unrest to get in McConnell’s grill.

There is no more road left to kick the can. The Republicans had two years of total control of the government. They need to get the hell out of the way.


81 posted on 02/02/2019 3:48:21 PM PST by odawg
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To: Electric Graffiti

See my post #79.


82 posted on 02/02/2019 3:48:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: lodi90

It’s bad. The treachery of the GOP is beyond the pale. Especially while America’s survival is on the line.

They all need to be brought to justice.


83 posted on 02/02/2019 3:52:01 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: rintintin

I saw this on OAN and I nearly fainted.

Who the he!! do McConnel and Pelosi think they are???

This has got to stop and that idiot, whom I thought was sensible, Thune, comes out with President Trump “shouldn’t use Twitter.”

We have NO ONE except the President on our side.

I’d like the names of the mutineers and I bet the first name is Romney. We should notify them that they will have
as much support in coming elections as they gave our President.

GEEEZ, I was miffed


84 posted on 02/02/2019 3:52:10 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: rintintin

and why would the Senate stand in his way, McConnell - didn’t you and Ryan both promise the wall ‘after the elections’ ??? So why aren’t the Congresscritters ready to rock and roll????

We have coyotes bringing buses of sick people to the border to occupy our agents while they bring drugs and humans across a dozen miles away. The cartels have changed tactics from crying babies at the border gates for sick kids and mothers in delivery in the middle of nowhere.

Our border agents are not the Red Cross. They are law enforcement officers. Build the wall and let them go back to enforcing the law. If the job description has changed to ambulance escorts and babysitters that take no skill or education, then why pay more than $10/hr? Let Border Patrol do the job they were hired to do.


85 posted on 02/02/2019 3:55:37 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: rintintin

McConnell is no fool, he knows damn well we can’t have a War on Drugs without Drugs and there is no way in hell he will allow any disruption in the War on Drugs by a silly Wall.


86 posted on 02/02/2019 3:56:33 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: rintintin

Lets see the rift...
More swamp to drain


87 posted on 02/02/2019 3:58:34 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Mariner

Wishful thinking. When Mueller drops his impeachment report, we’ll see how they vote.

They’ve always had the votes in the senate. They just need a good excuse(a legal fig leaf) from mueller. They’ll be upholding the rule of law dontchaknow.

You’re making the mistake that Senators actually represent the people. They don’t, obviously. They’re special interest dead-enders or worse. If they’re called to fall on their swords to remove Trump, TPTB will have a better gig lined up for them when they do.


88 posted on 02/02/2019 3:59:13 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Starboard

Trump is a 3rd party President. THE AMERICAN PARTY.


89 posted on 02/02/2019 4:01:30 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: rintintin
Look what we have here.

Unnamed sources from the Washington Post and people are getting upset.

90 posted on 02/02/2019 4:03:17 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Electric Graffiti

There gig will be at the end of a rope.


91 posted on 02/02/2019 4:06:24 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: oldbrowser

It’s my understanding the law allows for him to build the wall without issuing an emergency.


92 posted on 02/02/2019 4:06:42 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Electric Graffiti

“When Mueller drops his impeachment report, we’ll see how they vote.”

Aye.

When that turd hits Pennsylvania Ave. we’ll see how the blowhards vote.

They all talk a good game of allusions, but let’s see how they vote when “it’s us or them” is crystallized in a single vote. With the entire electorate watching.

Like I said, Impeachment never even passes the House. Won’t even get out of committee.


93 posted on 02/02/2019 4:11:22 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: FreeReign

Unnamed sources from the Washington Post and people are getting upset.

Good point. It’s not like the GaoP establishment has given us any reason to be suspicious of them


94 posted on 02/02/2019 4:11:38 PM PST by rintintin (q)
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To: piytar

The rift that keeps on giving.


95 posted on 02/02/2019 4:15:01 PM PST by blackdog
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To: lodi90

So true. I’ve had it with the GOP.


96 posted on 02/02/2019 4:15:11 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: rintintin

As soon as I read the word “reportedly”, I know, with about 90% certainty, that it is BS fake news...


97 posted on 02/02/2019 4:17:32 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

Yes, any suggestion that the GOP establishment isn’t for the wall has to be fake news


98 posted on 02/02/2019 4:22:01 PM PST by rintintin (q)
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To: piytar

GOP is a worthless party. GOP and DNC are why Washington (the President) hated them.


99 posted on 02/02/2019 4:22:59 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: rintintin

Put ny congress critter that will not support stopping the illegal alien invasion in jail.


100 posted on 02/02/2019 4:23:58 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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