Posted on 02/06/2019 2:27:55 PM PST by scottinoc
It's great that members of Congress have located specific legislative language permitting the president to build a border wall, but I'm wondering: Has anybody read the Constitution?
It says:
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States."
"(The president) shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
With millions of foreigners illegally pouring across our border, it sure looks like the laws are not being "faithfully executed." I wonder if the COMMANDER IN CHIEF has any authority to stop it.
The Constitution was expressly designed to make it difficult to do what our military does all the time -- fight wars around the globe -- and easy to do what our military never does -- defend our own country.
Congress was given power to "declare war," but not to "make war," for the precise purpose of stalling the march to war. It was a selling point that the legislative branch takes forever to do anything.
But we had a country to protect, so the Constitution gave the energetic, fast-moving president the authority to deploy the military defensively.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Hey Ann, start eating and stop throwing up. You’ll find your starvation induced adrenaline levels will balance out with normal.
To be honest, whenever I see her and her long, over-bleached mane, I switch off.
I listen to Mark Simone every morning (WOR-Radio, my beloved!!!) and when he had her on today, I cut the internet.
When she was hot for Romney I opposed her.
Now...?
She’s 100% correct on this and I support her.
She’s right.
I love FR, but there are a few names out there that are GUARANTEED to turn a zillion freeps into automatic haters, and Ann Coulter is at the very tippy top of that list.
It’s like freakin’ HIGH-SCHOOL.
It doesn’t matter at all what she does, any thread that bears her name...? A yuge sucking sound begins and phalanxes of glossy-eyed, slobbering haters pour forth, like that show Walking Dead.
Good points??? There is not 1 billionth of a syllable incorrect in that essay. It is true and perfect.
stfuAC...geeeezz, maybe it’s the dreaded PPMS..permanent prehistoric mood swings
Believe me. POTUS is reading this. But POTUS doesn't need Ann Coulter. She is only one American (in my opinion, a great American, but we can argue about that and in the end it doesn't matter). What matters is that Donald Trump trounced Hitlery in the Electoral College, and if you're an American you see that as a mandate to exercise his rights under the Constitution to protect America. Ann gets that. Folks on this forum may dislike her, and that is their right. But you cannot dislike the Constitution and call yourself an American, and those harpies "raising the roof" over their elected positions while rolling their eyes about the constitutional authority of this great president can go to hell.
Ann is starting to be as annoying as Bill Kristol, SE Cupp and Max Boot.
She is and always has been 100 billion percent right on immigration, illegal AND legal.
Guess you didn’t pay attention to her complete nervous breakdown during the Harriet Myers debacle. Doesn’t matter what you think about Myers or Bush’s attempt to get her appointed: she behaved like a mental patient on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Some of us remember that, ok? She screamed and raved in a manner unbecoming a pundit. Today, we have Mollie Hemingway and Tammy Bruce on Fox making mince meat of this overly emotional nutcase.
“I can like both her and Pres. Trump at the same time, cant I?”
Yes! As do I.
But FReepers gotta FReak!
Stick a brick in her mouth sideways.
Like Peggy Noonan, who is still, at the grand old age of 68, acting and writing in her "little good Catholic schoolgirl persona", thought at least Peggy has updated her hairstyle a bit.
OTOH...Ann's far too long, scraggly "bed hair", that at 57, she keeps flipping like an 18 year old, far too skimpy and young clothes, which are very dated, are the outward symbols of someone who refuses to believe that she is an eyelash away from being a OLD, long in the tooth, unwanted spinster.
As I posted on FR, Trump can avoid all the hoopla if he declares an emergency.
As Ive said before, Trump can order the Army Corps of Engineers to use their training and Ops budget to build the wall. He has the authority to do so and there will be no court challenges about declaring an emergency.
Trump does this and the Dems will be caught flat-footed and sputtering because they cant do anything about it. And if use of the existing budget stresses real-world hurricane relief or some such thing, what dem will vote no to authorizing addition budget for the Corps of Engineers? They wont because they would be shown for the heartless punks they are imagine voting no to get relief to all those people suffering from a natural disaster.
Trump wins.
I listen to Mark too and every time he says that she’ll be on next, I turn off the radio.
Ann Coulter is not the first who has become a wacko conservative.
Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs and Glenn Beck are a couple of names that come to mind.
Buy me, Buy me, Buy me............
He's trying to get the job done,avoid a Constitutional Crisis and or a Civil War.
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