Posted on 02/15/2019 10:31:53 AM PST by EveningStar
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said on Friday he would "love to see" what Fox News host Sean Hannity would say if a future Democratic president declared "a national emergency over climate change" or for another reason.
Stephens made the comment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," hours before Trump declared a national emergency in an announcement from the Rose Garden.
"The powers that Trump appropriates for himself now and that Republicans like Mitch McConnell willingly grant him are powers that future Democratic presidents are certainly going to seize using this as a precedent," Stephens said.
"And real conservatives already rue the day, but these faux conservatives are going to rue that day when they handed over so much power to an executive to act when he or she pleases," he continued.
"When Elizabeth Warren starts seizing banks or Kamala Harris declares a national emergency over climate change, I’d love to see what Sean Hannity has to say."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Hopefully there won’t be another Dem President for a long time ...
What part of Article Four of the Constitution is Climate Change graft in?
What part of Article Four of the Constitution is Climate Change graft in?
Sorry Bret. They already have.
They will do it anyway.
And if the dems ever get back the senate they will change the filibuster rule, unlike cowardly republicans.
And if the dems ever control the house senate nad presidency again they will declare amnesty for all illegals and America will be finished.
It would be a little like when Obama and the Democrats spent the first two years of his first term going wild with their far-left agenda. Loss of first one, then both, houses of Congress to the other party.
Declaring an emergency over nothing happening is grounds for 25th amendment removal.
None of these clowns were on board being against EOs when Obama was implementing 13 of them.
Wasn’t that the administration that had no scandals? LMAO
The same part the penumbra that guarantees Roe v. Wade.
“Bret Stephens said on Friday he would “love to see” what Fox News host Sean Hannity would say if a future Democratic president declared “a national emergency over climate change” or for another reason.”
If Occasional Cortex is ever elected president she would probably declare a national emergency over the likely extinction of unicorns.
Are these people mentally retarded..they act like Dems wouldn’t do it if they had the chance LOL
It would be a little like when Obama and the Democrats spent the first two years of his first term going wild with their far-left agenda. Loss of first one, then both, houses of Congress to the other party.
That was Pre-Never Trumpism. The GOP coalition has been changed, forever.
This Never-Trumper bitter ender just confirms his own irrelevance.
Yeah for swine flu..did anyone even know he did it for the swine flu..did anyone care..NO..because no one knew, and honestly I wouldn’t have even cared..but since it was Obama and the media’s messiah he could do whatever he wants, with Trump its evil
Correct. Paris Agreement. That did not come through Congress
I have found that the level of nonsense spewed by libs and neverTrumpers is directly proportional to how effective the action Trump is proposing to take is.
The Dems won’t have to worry about Hannity if they try to pull that off.
They’ll worry about the crowd waiting outside their offices.
Armed.
Mad.
And ready to give the democrats what they very truly deserve.
Bring it, Obamaholes.
Bring it, please, so we can get the inevitable over with earlier rather than later.
Under what authority?
Declaring a national emergency doesn't mean the President can do what he pleases; he must still act within the confines of the emergency act that was passed by Congress.
-PJ
The Democrats will do whatever they want to do until they are removed from office. "By any means necessary" is their slogan.
Life can be such a bitch when the Republicans play by the same rules.
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