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Sen. Brian Schatz: Is it me or is it getting pretty autocratic around here?
The quote in the OP is part of a series of tweets about Trump's fake national emergency that our senior senator from Hawaii has posted over the last few hours.
This is the full series, which isn't threaded, and I'll follow the tweets with the text in them, in one block.
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I can think of a few other things that are actual emergencies.
The inability to negotiate with a coequal branch is not an emergency. A failure to secure money is just not the same as a natural disaster or terrorism event. And I look forward to a big bipartisan vote rejecting this nonsense. Can you imagine the screaming of Obama did this?
Whether or not you vote to uphold this national emergency declaration is a pretty crisp litmus test for where you stand on the constitution and the separation of powers.
I think not enough attention is being given to the observable fact that he is not good at this job.
This emergency declaration will lose in court, but in the meantime every member of congress will be put on the record, and it will be ugly on the Senate floor.
I guess what I’m trying to say is “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the U.S.”
Is it me or is it getting pretty autocratic around here?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
These guys are such hypocrites it makes me ill
The inability to negotiate with a coequal branch is not an emergency. A failure to secure money is just not the same as a natural disaster or terrorism event. And I look forward to a big bipartisan vote rejecting this nonsense. Can you imagine the screaming of Obama did this?
Whether or not you vote to uphold this national emergency declaration is a pretty crisp litmus test for where you stand on the constitution and the separation of powers.
I think not enough attention is being given to the observable fact that he is not good at this job.
This emergency declaration will lose in court, but in the meantime every member of congress will be put on the record, and it will be ugly on the Senate floor.
I guess what I’m trying to say is “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the U.S.”
Is it me or is it getting pretty autocratic around here?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
These guys are such hypocrites it makes me ill