Posted on 12/13/2015 12:24:54 PM PST by Kaslin
Donald Trump has spent years cultivating a reputation as someone who won't accept "no" for an answer, and he's made clear that's exactly the sort of president he would be. Never mind if there's bipartisan opposition to barring Muslims from entering the United States or to building a wall along the Mexican border (and making Mexico pay for it). Trump doesn't see a need to defer to Congress, which he dismisses as "grossly incompetent" and "pathetically weak." Instead, he heralds instances of past presidents acting unilaterally, particularly Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order that led to Japanese American internment and Dwight Eisenhower's deportation of millions under "Operation Wetback ."
These comments have understandably energized the Stop Trump movement. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Trump's proposal for barring Muslims "disqualifies him" from office. Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin rallied supporters with the message, "We have to be ready to stop him."
But if Democrats are alarmed by this glimpse into a Trump administration, they are in part to blame. They have supported President Obama's claims of unchecked authority in a variety of areas, particularly immigration. And the Obama model will be attractive to successors who, although they may have a different agenda, have the same appetite for unilateral decisions.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So basically, it was incompetence and failure that made Trump’s presidential bid possible.
“Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.” - Paul Begala.
The Forehead, haven’t heard or seen much of him for while?
Here is Turley letting us know nothing Obama has done is impeachable.
Trump doing a thing which is perfectly within the legitimate scope of presidential power compares somehow with the illegal power grabs bozo The Clown pulled off? D on think it’s gonna work this time around.
I went to the University of Texas back in the early 1980s when Begala did. He ran for student body president unopposed, but came in second. He lost to a write in campaign for Hank the Hallucination, a comic strip character in the student newspaper.
Unapposed and finished 2nd....LOL
Ha! I was there at the time. I remember Hank's victory, but I didn't remember Begala.
Come to think of it, I would gladly vote for Hank over many of the GOP candidates.
Is that true?
Great story.
Well, that is his opinion and we disagree with that, don’t we/
Wasn’t he in “This Island Earth”?
OK, now I’ve seen him, enough!
We ran a buddy of ours for student body president as a communist making absurd promises using updated Chinese Mao posters.
He won.
The principal called us into his office and congratulated us on our campaign before letting us know the second place actual real candidate would be getting the gig.
LOL, the pic! Reminiscent of *How to Serve Man*
with a bit more hairs.
That was not fair.
Funny how he traces its true origins back to Bush, then says it would be “deeply unfortunate more so under Cruz than Clinton. Nauseating.
Turley’s article, while infested with bias, is actually pretty good.
I agree, not a bad read.
Differentiates between how the constitution was intended to work vs. how we the people would like it to or even think it should work.
Really our frustration is more appropriately directed at how our legislative and judicial branches have completely abdigated their responsibility.
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