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[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Pelosi tosses Trump’s national emergency threat back in his face: A Dem president could declare an emergency too
BRENDAN SKWIRE
14 FEB 2019 AT 16:28 ET

ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a warning to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party: declaring a national emergency over the border would only empower a Democratic president to do the same to accomplish their own pet goals.

“It’s important to note that when the president declares this emergency, first of all, it’s not an emergency, what’s happening at the border. It’s a humanitarian challenge to us,” she said. “The president has tried to sell a bill of goods to America.”

Pelosi said that Trump was “doing an end run” around Congress’s duly appointed power of the purse, as well as their oversight responsibility, and warned the Republicans that the president’s gambit may get him closer to his short term goals, but would have lasting consequences for their party when it inevitably blew up in their faces.

“I know the Republicans have some unease about it, no matter what they say,” Pelosi said. “If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/pelosi-tosses-trumps-national-emergency-threat-back-in-his-face-a-dem-president-could-declare-an-emergency-too/?utm_source=push_notifications

[Joe Nation]

1. Dems are all like.....

[TygrBright]

2. They're not worried about that because they're making sure there'll never be another Dem President.

With Pooty's help, of course.

darkly,
Bright

[Lonestarblue]

11. Permanent one-party Republican rule has been the goal all along.

We already know they will cheat in 2020. The question is what can we do about it.

[VMA131Marine]

3. The next Democratic President should declare climate change a national emergency

because, for one thing, it actually is. Imagine the steps that could be taken without needing to get Congressional approval. It could beused to make a huge dent in US carbon emissions.

[cstanleytech]

8. Hell there are a ton of things the Repugnants would oppose that a Democrat could

institute and they would only have themselves to blame as they would have set the standard.
For example, how about a national supreme court justice emergency the next time we have the majority by 51 and increase the number of justices to 15.

[in2herbs]

21. Yes! nt

[earthside]

4. This is serious.

Trump is ruling by decree because he cannot get what he wants through the Constitutional process -- that is tyranny.

I don't want any president to have the power to declare a 'national emergency' only as she/he defines it; that is a usurpation of the Constitutional legislative appropriations process.


Bad day for our constitutional republic.

[Delphinus]

10. Yes!

You said it - I am sitting here with my eyes wide open, almost unable to breathe, because of this shit. I cannot believe this is happening! And I don't know what the hell to do.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Nancy Pelosi warns GOP that a Democratic president could declare gun violence a national emergency

Tucker Higgins | @tuckerhiggins
Published 18 Mins Ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Republicans on Thursday that a future Democratic president could declare gun violence a national emergency.

Her comments to reporters came shortly after the White House said that the president would declare a national emergency in order to "build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country."

Pelosi said she was not advocating for Democrats to declare a national emergency, but that the president was establishing a precedent that should, at least, make Republicans nervous.

"If the president can declare an emergency on something he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think about what a president with different values can present to the American people," Pelosi said.

More:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/pelosi-warns-gop-that-a-democratic-president-could-declare-a-national-emergency-on-guns.html

[keith sw]

6. Trump doesn't care

He knows he will be gone with the money. He doesn’t give a crap about illegal immigration, this is just a money grab for him

[pampango]

12. All true PLUS he could not care less what happens after he leaves the presidency.

If the nation is in debt up to its eyeballs. If future presidents further diminish democracy by bypassing congress. If the health care system totally collapses.

All he cares about is re-election and the money he can make as president and after he retires.

[Raven123]

7. Pelosi was smart in revealing her plan

If Trump declares an emergency I tend to think Dems should fight it out in court as I believe the GOP would do so. Need to have the Constitutional issues clear.

[duforsure]

9. If he's allowed to do this,

It means he could start declaring other things national emergencies also, at will to get whatever he wanted that day.

[Cold War Spook]

13. Maybe she should make a list of all the things the next Democrat in the White House

will consider a national emergency. Give the list to the heads of the Republicans in Congress. Make them sweat a little. Things like the Confederate flag and Confederate statues since they were treasonous.

[Blue Owl]

14. National Emergency #2: "My golf simulator is broken!!!"

What a fucking piece of shit Donald Flump is...

[DrToast]

15. A lot of Republicans were against it. Let's see if they fold, too

Marco Rubio....I'm looking at you!

Ah I'm just kidding. I'm sure you're going to fold.

[ehrnst]

16. Nancy Patricia D'alesandro Pelosi...

[jls4561]

17. I think the 'publicans and sinners want the "National Emergency" to go to the courts because

if (when) it goes to the courts and the courts slap it down (which they will, unless of course the syphilitic tortoise has succeeded in
totally packing them with cronies). Therefore, when the next Democratic President declares an emergency (personal note: climate change! It's a freaking emergency, people!) she (or he) will have a precedent in place saying "Naw, you can't do that".

[Bayard]

18. Then tRump can expect to spend the rest of his term

Either in prison, on in court. I'm sure restraining orders are being drafted now.

[demgrrrll]

19. She's good.

[Massacure]

20. I would love to see a Democratic President declare Climate Change an emergency in 2020

Take funds from the pentagon and build a wind farm off the coast of Mar-a-Lago.