Does Anyone Believe By Voting Against Trump’s Emergency The Democrats Won’t Use Them?

One of the things I hear over and over from the “principled” folk is how Trump cannot be allowed to declare a national emergency for border security because then the Democrats might declare a national emergency for gun violence or climate change in the years ahead.

They then follow with a sigh of relief as if by standing up to this use of emergency powers the executive branch has hereby been limited in power for future Democrat presidents.

As Michael asked Fredo in Tahoe...

“You believed that story?”

I’m reminded of the time when Democrats were stonewalling Bush judicial appointments and republicans fretted and wrung their hands over the “nuclear button option” for years. Should they do it? No, they just can’t because if they do it then Democrats will do it. They don’t want that. So they don’t do it, thereby preventing democrats from doing it in the future for democrat judicial appointments.

Harry Reid commented that “the sanctity and proper Constitutional role of the Senate has been preserved” by the republicans yielding and not pressing the “nuclear button option.”

Then Obama is elected president.

And Harry Reid quickly does this regarding the “nuclear button option.”





Some people never learn and that is why they lose.