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Remember when executive overreach was a thing?

Journal by DeathMonkey

Well the good news is that most congresscritters do, and Trump's fake-ass emergency was rejected.

41 Republican Senators and 182 Republican House Representatives, on the other hand, just proved how completely full of crap they are.

 

Reply to: No I don't

    (Score: 0, Redundant) by Sulla on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:32PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:32PM (#814491)

    I'm young so all I remember is Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. Executive overreach seems to be tradition in that every president does it and complaints about the prior president doing it. They won't fix because they want the next executive to have more power. Republicans won't try to curtail it because they want their own guy to have more power, the Dems are just the same. Throughout the years there have been actions taken to try and curtail these sorts of things, but every time it is stopped by "bipartisan" action. The never-Trumpers only oppose this because they hate Trump because they are jealous that he beat all their guys and hasn't started a war with Iran, the Democrats oppose this because they have to to win elections and because they are butthurt they can't use budget shifting to follow through on their threat to use a national emergency on gun control.

    I support any action taken to reduce executive power, including the one that is happening now. All emergencies are a violation of the constitution. My favorite part will be when this passes and the next non-Trump D or R gets the power back by bipartisan effort because they need to fight Iran/Terrorism/Russians/Drugs.

    The only person who is honest in this whole thing is Rand Paul who wants to reduce executive power regardless of party rather than just when his party is out of power.

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