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Does Trump Own a Veto Pen?

14 Thursday Mar 2019

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He says he’ll kill the bill after Senate GOPers cave (as usual) on national security and sovereignty.

The Senate voted Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration over the southern border, a sharp bipartisan rebuke of the president’s flex of executive power.

The chamber comfortably passed the measure in a 59-41 vote. Twelve Republicans who worried about executive overreach supported it in an embarrassing blow to the president.

Trump plans to reject the bill, which the Democratic-held House has already passed. In one tweet after the vote, he simply said, “VETO!” In a subsequent message, he said he looks “forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution,” thanking Republicans “who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!”

I’m serious about the pen question. Will he follow through? So far we have zero wall. Will we get zero veto?

The invasion really is an emergency. Maybe it’s time to treat it as such.

A Party I’d Like to Attend

14 Thursday Mar 2019

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Ann Coulter is keeping the heat on Trump to put up or shut up about the Big Beautiful Wall. She wants to know the exact location (of what’s already been built) and host a party there.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter issued a put-up-or-shut-up demand Tuesday to President Donald Trump, challenging him to identify exactly where his administration has erected new border barriers between the U.S. and Mexico.

Trump claimed Saturday on Twitter that the ‘[m]ajor sections of Wall are being built.’ He tweeted a day earlier that his long-promised border wall ‘is being built and is well under construction.’

Coulter told DailyMail.com in an email that she wants details.

‘The President’s tweet says he’s already building the Wall. Could he give me the precise latitude and longitude of its location?’ she asked. ‘Also, how many miles long is it?’

‘I want to throw a party there and need the exact coordinates,’ she wrote.

I’ll bring some chips.

Ann Coulter Read the Constitution

07 Thursday Feb 2019

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This is great:

Starting wars was supposed to be difficult. Defending the nation was supposed to be easy. Indeed, repelling attacks on our border is so important that both the legislature and president are given authority to do so.

But today, it’s considered perfectly normal that U.S. troops are fighting in 14 countries that most Americans couldn’t name, while our border is wide open.

I hope she keeps pushing this line of (correct) thinking, keeps acting as Trump’s Jiminy Cricket. And, again, walls aren’t the only defensive measure available.

State of the Onion: Normandy and the Moon

06 Wednesday Feb 2019

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That’s all I got out of the 30 seconds I listened to Trump’s second State of the Union speech. Economic calamity approaching, civil war pending, and the largest invasion in human history … but … we went to the moon (which NASA admits we couldn’t right now) and we fought a two-front war (which the Pentagram admits we couldn’t do right now)…

TRANSCRIPT HERE (Warning: CNN version – facts/words may be altered)

I understand the speech went over well with many folks. Great rhetoric. Some bright points. Big with the Women of Congress. Much more entertaining than a simple “It’s over.”

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POTUS Interview: Speaker Ryan Lied on Border Wall Funding Promise to Get Omnibus Signed… — The Last Refuge

31 Thursday Jan 2019

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Paul Ryan LIED?!?! Say it ain’t so!

President Trump gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Caller. Part of that interview entailed President Trump outlining the back-story behind him signing the Omnibus spending bill and a promise from Paul Ryan. [Transcript]THE DAILY CALLER: Well, the people who elected you are very interested in the immigration decision and what’s going on with this […]

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No Shutdown and No Wall

25 Friday Jan 2019

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This was predictable: Trump caves on Shutdown/Wall.

The Senate swiftly and unanimously approved the deal, and the House was ready to follow suit and send the legislation to Trump for his signature.

Trump’s retreat came in the 35th day of the partial shutdown as intensifying delays at the nation’s airports and another missed payday for hundreds of thousands of federal workers brought new urgency to efforts to resolve the standoff.

The shutdown was ending as Democratic leaders had insisted it must — reopen the government first, then talk border security. “The president thought he could crack Democrats, and he didn’t, and I hope it’s a lesson for him,” said the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of her members: “Our unity is our power. And that is what maybe the president underestimated.”

It’s certainly a lesson.

Okay, now we wait two days for the strategery, if any. Actually, we’ve been waiting for two years now. Trump admits there’s an emergency and that he has the authority and power to deal with it … later. We wait.

The shutdown isn’t the problem – next to none care about it. It’s the invasion and the decline, Mr. President.

Wow!

19 Saturday Jan 2019

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What a deal!

  • Amnesty for existing illegals.
  • Remote asylum applications for future illegals.
  • Presumably a free flight over the BBW! for those future illegals.
  • More government employees.
  • End of the shutdown – all those non-essentials back to “work.”

Only the genius of Kushner, Pence, and Graham (who has recovered from his fit of manliness during the Kavanaugh lynching) could have delivered something this amazing.

The best part? It’s already been rejected by the Dems.

Trust the plan? Wait two days? Okay. My guess is that this was as good as it’s going to get.

More tomorrow. Maybe with a video. Maybe for next week’s TPC.