RW view on Nat Emergency (here is our playbook)

[MH1]

In the Washington Examiner "Trump declaring a national emergency to build border wall with McConnell's support will come back to haunt conservatives"

by Philip Klein | February 14, 2019 03:52 PM

That Trump is taking this action means that a Republican president will have been on board with using emergency powers to undertake a massive infrastructure project without the consent of Congress. What's more, the Republican leader in the Senate, along with no doubt plenty of other Republicans, will have signed on this action, along with, no doubt, plenty of conservative Trump cheerleaders.

For the past week, we've been debating infeasibility of the Green New Deal. But many of its provisions suddenly become a lot more politically possible if a president is allowed to seize emergency powers in such a way. If Trump succeeds, it would not be difficult for a Democrat to declare an emergency based on the National Climate Assessment, and then go about using the military for massive infrastructure projects in clean energy.

The only hope for limited government conservatives is that any emergency declaration gets quickly enjoined, and eventually nixed, in federal court. At least then, the silver lining would be that a legal precedent would be set that the president cannot attempt such an end around Congress.

Either way, however, Trump's action and the likely overwhelming support by Congressional Republicans will shred their ability to resist any sort of attempt by a future Democratic president seeking to broadly employ executive power.

more at link
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-declaring-a-national-emergency-to-build-border-wall-with-mcconnells-support-will-come-back-to-haunt-conservatives

[apcalc]

1. They will find a way around it. They always do.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Like that will stop them from screaming bloody murder when the dems do it

Like the exec orders they hated until trump did them and when he issued them the right said it's not the exec order but what was in the exec order . They will move the goal posts .

[FiveGoodMen]

4. And all the news media taking their side!

[onecaliberal]

3. Can you say justice Gorsuch. They give zero shits about hypocrisy.

[MH1]

6. Excellent point.

But, I was thinking about the 2020 campaign. And any elections in between. When R's try to claim being the party of small government.

[onecaliberal]

7. They're all lip service and it works because the corporate media profits from their propaganda.

[shanti]

5. The Dems won't do it back

They never do, and the R's are counting on that.