Randoo has his curlers on too tight again...
Posted on 03/06/2019 2:44:51 PM PST by rintintin
Senator Rand Paul has announced that, despite supporting improvements in border security, he will vote against President Trump’s emergency declaration on the grounds that it’s an abuse of executive power — and he’s absolutely right.
“Every single Republican I know decried President Obama’s use of executive power to legislate,” Paul wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “We were right then.”
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Abuse of executive power? How does that work exactly?
The POTUS enforces the law and he’s commander in chief of our armed forces in charge of national security. It’s the definition of executive power under the Constitution.
Oh, this will really show the Dems how to behave! After Rand Paul’s moral stand, no Dem would dare issue another Executive Emergency Order. Rand Paul for President!
My recollection is that Timpf is a long time Open Borders Koch bros. clown.
Of course. Follow the money. IF this was an EO creating a North American Union the Koch Clown posse would be cheering it on.
I’d buy into this argument if congress ever stopped any other States of emergencies or even “Presidental over reach”. If the invasion of the country isn’t an “emergency” I’m not sure what would be. Hopefully Rand Paul loses next election as this is either a) Grandstanding to get on tv or B) he is getting money from Cheap Labor Express.
“The biggest emergency is that Congress has refused all sensible attempts to protect the American people from the consequences of an open border . . . and it’s about a whole lot more than illegal immigration.”
That is the biggest emergency. Our corrupt and illegitimate 4 trillion dollar stasi state refuses to protect the states from invasion. A constitutional mandate.
I sent emails to both my senators warning them of my wrath if they shiv the POTUS.
It’s a real EMERGENCY.
Good point: Our Congress is a national emergency.
Un-Constitutional actions.
Taxation without representation.
Misuse of federal departments.
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You’re either for border security or against it.
Navel gazing to determine the intent of the constitution is an intellectual exercise which ignores the reality on the ground.
The reason being given is BS. The Congress passed a law giving Trump the authority to do what he is doing. People like Rand Paul don’t like the gov’t doing anything and he is using his vote to make his point. Obama on the other hand did not have laws or the Constitution to back up his EOs for the most part. This is just more weak kneed Republican’s trying to wrap up their patheticness in separation of powers and power of the purse arguments.
Dear Rand: “This is clearly both a border security and humanitarian crisis,” said CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan at a press briefing.
The reason being given is BS. The Congress passed a law giving Trump the authority to do what he is doing. People like Rand Paul don’t like the gov’t doing anything and he is using his vote to make his point. Obama on the other hand did not have laws or the Constitution to back up his EOs for the most part. This is just more weak kneed Republican’s trying to wrap up their patheticness in separation of powers and power of the purse arguments.
If abuse of power is REALLY what Rand is wee-weed up about, let the a$$hat led the charge to repeal the emergency powers law; otherwise, he is behaving like a hypocrite that that is on the take.
Like the Koch Brothers. I bet they've donated to each and every one of the GOP traitors who are against the President's Nat'l Emergency declaration.
The law NEA 1976 also allows the congress to terminate the declaration. The president can veto. The congress can override or not.
If she’s living alone it’s by choice. Before she hit the big time she had a pretty raunchy comedy routine where she described how she could tell if a guy was into her. Look it up on YouTube it would get blocked here.
Blaming Trump for anything at the border is silly (Ann Coulter is a great example). Tell me, which politician is supporting any step that Trump is taking?
And was an abuse of power then. If anything looking at the uses since then confirms it. Except for Trumps declaration, only because it’s a real emergency and Congress isn’t doing its job.
I think that’s probably true for all but Rand Paul.
Paul is a purist; the power of the purse is given to Congress, so this statute is on tenuous Constitutional footing (in thi s circumstance) is his purist argument. He would require something like a nuclear war, not something we’ve been living with since Ted Kennedy opened our borders wide.
Rand’s position is not irrational; I just disagree with the Rand on whether this is an emergency.
I, like you, think it is.
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