DUMP TRUMP! BRING BACK SANITY AND MATURITY!
Immigration reform legislation is needed, not the damn Wall!
Republicans must dump Trump while he is weakest which is Feb 2019 after stupidly calling the border situation a "national emergency" to subvert Congress power to appropriate funds.
Trump and his advisors are confused, laughed at and feared for his inconsistency and hypocrisy world-wide. Trump is not respected anywhere he goes, and everything he says is awkward at best, not to mention his thousands of lies and fake facts.
Trump is amoral, and just plain DUMB, so dump him! The country is ready to vote in a mainstream Republican.
Will Republicans in Congress take back their authority?
"The feeble Republicans will not fulfill their oaths"
By Jennifer Rubin February 18, 2019
"Senior policy adviser Stephen Miller’s disastrous appearance on Fox News rightfully got most of the media attention on Sunday. Here was the architect of the emergency declaration unprepared and unable to defend President Trump’s actions as much to do about nothing. We are unsurprised, however, that Trump’s most loyal and dogged anti-immigrant advocate, once outside the cocoon of a White House populated by yes men, should find it hard to present factual answers to legitimate questions.
What was more depressing was the pathetic conduct of Republican senators who seem thoroughly incapable of defending their power of the purse. Here was the cringeworthy exchange between Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and NBC’s Chuck Todd:
CHUCK TODD:
So you believe his use of the National Emergency Act, I want to clarify this, is constitutional? You believe it will be upheld in the court? Do you want the courts to uphold this power?
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
Listen, I regret that past Congresses have given the president, any president, a lot of its, Congress’s constitutional authority. It’s done it on tariffs, it’s done in this case. It’s done in many cases. We should have three coequal branches. Right now, the presidency is probably the most powerful, and then the court. And Congress is really diminished. And we should start taking back that congressional authority. It’d be, it’d return that balance. But that’s the way it is. And again, particularly when Congress has given —
CHUCK TODD:
Right.
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
— the president authority, it's really when that president's authority is even stronger than just what's written in the Constitution.
CHUCK TODD:
Are you going to vote to disapprove of the president's use of this, of the National Emergency Act when it comes to the Senate? The House is likely to vote on a resolution of disapproval. It'll come to the Senate. Where would you vote on that?
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
I'm going to take a look at the case the president makes. And I'm also going to take a look at how quickly this money is actually going to be spent, versus what he's going to use. If he's not going to be spending it this fiscal year or very early in the next fiscal year, I would have my doubts. So again, I'm going to take a look at it and I’ll, you know, I'll decide when I actually have to vote on it.
CHUCK TODD:
Do you share the concern that other conservatives have that, if this is allowed to become precedent, where a president, thwarted by a Congress that he disagreed with, can end-run Congress this way and declare a national emergency to take appropriated money and spend it anywhere, climate change, guns, you name it?
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
Absolutely, I share those concerns, which is why we're going to take a very careful look at what he's doing here in this instance. But again, I have to stress, this president has been thwarted for keep — you know, in his attempt to keep this nation safe and secure, to secure, to secure our borders. Let's face it. If this president can claim a mandate on anything he ran on, it's exactly this issue, better barriers and securing our border. And Congress, and Democrats in Congress have supported this in the past. They just won't support it now because it's President Trump.
CHUCK TODD:
But Senator--
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
I think it's very regrettable. An easy solution--
CHUCK TODD:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Senator —
SENATOR RON JOHNSON:
Just have them stop being hypocrites."
I wouldn’t bring up hypocrisy if I were he. Republicans had a meltdown when President Barack Obama issued an executive order to protect “dreamers." Now, they are copacetic with an even larger power grab, one that preempts Congress’s spending power."
While Tweety's base will never leave him because they are a Cult-like group, the much larger GOP Base / Conventional Conservative Republicans can get rid of Trump by not supporting his foolishness over the next two years.
The GOP must oppose Trump!
"President Trump is dragging Republicans down with him"
By Paul Waldman February 18, 2019
Pass legislation and overturn any Veto! Maybe Trump doesn't have the will to veto anything. Try him!
"Time to build the Republican Party back into what Americans deserve"
By Meghan Milloy and Jennifer Pierotti Lim, opinion contributors — 01/11/19 12:00 PM EST 317The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
"The 116th Congress has officially begun this month, bringing an end to unilateral Republican control of the legislative and executive branches of government. The federal government remains shuttered in the midst of one of the longest shutdowns in the modern era. The ongoing shutdown is the latest example of political incapacity and unwillingness to govern, made all the more shameful by the fact the shutdown began while the Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and the presidency.
We are calling for a return to governance. The gridlock on Capitol Hill, caused by a decade of increasing partisanship and a lack of willingness to debate and pass sensible legislation, has made every problem facing our nation harder to tackle. Our nation deserves better from our elected officials on both sides of the aisle. We can no longer afford to tolerate lawmakers in Congress more concerned with winning elections than governing. The American people are hoping this divided government will not continue to be a dysfunctional government and that the Democratic majority in the House will decide on a path of reasonable governance."
"Will the Republican Party turn on Trump?"
By Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst Updated 12:17 AM ET, Sat December 8, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/opinions/will-the-republican-party-turn-on-trump-zelizer/index.html"
