US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

AFAICT this is a state of emergency that could be easily solved with some rope and four horses galloping in opposite directions.

McConnell, that well-regarded institutionalist, will support a president basically usurping legislative/appropriator powers in declaring a national emergency.

— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 14, 2019

so uh House Dems should definitely take the $1.4b in wall funding away now right

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sad to see you in the pocket of Big Horse

Eh, honestly so we expect anything less from McConnell? Also, glass half full thought: the talking heads don’t think the national emergency will pass muster with the courts and it will be immediately challenged. McConnell hates trump, and all of this has put congress in a standstill for months. This may be the only way to please our child president

just lmao at the idiot Dems who tried to negotiate wall funding in good faith, bravo guys

even so-called conservative intellectual con artists are nervous

This bad precedent could turn into good precedent if Trump’s overreach is rebuked by the courts https://t.co/2BstPI2G08

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 14, 2019

Be cool if we could just strip the president of the power to do anything beyond sign/veto legislation. Maybe allow him a ribbon cutting every once in a while or something, but that might be pushing it.

just lmao at the idiot Dems who tried to negotiate wall funding in good faith, bravo guys

god so much of my life for the next twenty years will consist of JOHN ROBERTS SAVE US

The Senate GOP's position re: emergency is very similar to their position re: Trump in late 2016. Many of them went all-in on denouncing him, then had to sheepishly crawl back once he won. They sent similar signals to shoot down the emergency trial balloon. Now it's happening.

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 14, 2019

god so much of my life for the next twenty years will consist of JOHN ROBERTS SAVE US

OTM. Especially shitty because I’m pretty sure his game plan is “I will fuck you over...slowly and incrementally so as to preserve the perceived impartiality of our wonderful court of sexual assaulters”

yep

As much as they dislike him, Senate Republicans will never oppose Trump in any meaningful way unless far more of the base forsakes him. Ironically, their repeated defenses of him help to ensure that the base will not forsake him. It would take a massive triggering event to start a rush for the exits.

he is still by far the most popular member of the Republican party

"You want to talk about a national emergency?" Speaker Pelosi says. "Let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary" of the Parkland shooting.

"Why don't you declare that a national emergency? I wish you would. But—a Democratic president can do that." https://t.co/RtDFa4fl1T pic.twitter.com/nohS0WmH2u

— ABC News (@ABC) February 14, 2019

no way would a Democratic president actually do this BUT I think "we'll actually take your guns next time" is actually kind of an effective message

"It would be a pretty dramatic expansion of how this was used in the past," says GOP senator Ron Johnson of Trump declaring a state of emergency.

Marco Rubio: "It's a bad idea."

Republicans seem very caught off guard by this.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

guys can we please stop the whole "we're very uncomfortable with what Trump is doing but will do absolutely nothing to stop it" routine, both sides have to be utterly sick of it by now

but Chuck Todd never is!

Oh man I can't wait for which passive aggressive bible verse Marco Rubio is gonna tweet

President Big Chungus pic.twitter.com/iTRUc3iofm

— kyle robbins (@kylerrobbins) February 14, 2019

there is no way Trump is 6'3". Jeb! is 6'3".

lol piss on this turd: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-emergency-declaration-border-wall-funding-not-national-emergency/

I kinda forgot about IronStache but he still owns

Happy Valentine’s Day.
Many can’t even afford to ‘supersize it’ today.
Thanks for making us aware you’re in a better place.

— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) February 14, 2019

I Love My Curvy President

"Trump is now pushing the presidency’s organizational resources, in the form of presidential emergencies, to their limit. Like Carter, he’s got resources at his disposal that John Adams did not have. But as was true of Carter, Trump’s dependence on those resources is not a sign of strength but weakness."

http://coreyrobin.com/2019/02/14/what-does-trumps-pending-declaration-of-emergency-mean-about-his-power-and-the-state-of-his-presidency/

So the Dems devised a compromise bill that Asshole may or may not sign but he's declaring an emergency for money anyway? Why shouldn't they just take the border money off the table again, if he's waving his ugly dick around?

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There are police here on the hill circling politicians when they come in for the vote, keeping reporters away from them. This is not normal.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

This is fucked. The police say they're just "escorting" the senators to the vote. In effect, they're shielding them from taking questions. Never seen this before.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) February 14, 2019

nazis! . . . half-off . . . at the hazard county fair

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every good URL has a space in it

I’m a nationally syndicated doctor

the land of oz

XP I own a mansion and a yacht

you are a patriot and my role model

tbf P and . are separate characters

"trump plans national emergency" is a weird headline

weird, or inevitable?

donald trump: "weird, inevitable and legal!"

I thought people were having a hard time believing that trump was 6'2 last year so finding it odd that he's gained an imaginary inch since then.

good morning!

On CNN last night, talking about the new Attorney General, one of the hosts said something to the effect of "And to start today, of all days, in the midst of all this turmoil."

Would that not apply to every single day of this presidency? I don't recall the downtime.

Apart from the day of his inaug?

I thought people were having a hard time believing that trump was 6'2 last year so finding it odd that he's gained an imaginary inch since then.

What people were saying last year is still available to be checked

the girther movement!

Weld to challenge to God-Emperor. I can't imagine him getting much support, but discord on the R side is generally a good thing.

Here's to hoping his chutzpah leads to similar challenges from people I've actually heard of before.

Good luck USA

Wow, he is babbling

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CavernousCorruptHyrax-size_restricted.gif

Weld was the Libertarian VP candidate. He's a well-spoken moderate R, and alarmed by Trump, in the last weeks of the '16 campaign, urged independent voters to vote for HRC rather than his own party in swing states. I like him.

"I'm going to be signing a national emergency, and it’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so it gave the presidents the power," Trump said. "There’s rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they weren’t very exciting."

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