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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/18/congress-katy-tur-gop-blind-eye-trumps-power-grab.htmlPosted on Mon, Feb 18th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Whats The Point Of Congress?: Katy Tur Rips GOP For Turning Blind Eye To Trumps Power Grab
MSNBCs Katy Tur said Republicans are essentially turning Congress into an irrelevant branch of government by going along with Donald Trumps fake emergency declaration.
If Republicans in Congress leave it up to the courts and they ultimately uphold Trumps abuse of power, then they do stand to lose a lot of congressional authority, the MSNBC host said.
If this goes to the courts and the courts uphold it, whats the point of Congress? Tur asked.
Link to tweet
Tur said:
They do stand to lose a lot of congressional authority. If this goes to the courts and the courts uphold it, whats the point of Congress? You have the president who can declare whatever he wants, he or she wants.
Republicans have abdicated their responsibility
In the Trump era, Republicans in Congress have refused to act as a co-equal branch of government. They have willingly given up their constitutional powers in order to appease and protect the president.
As Katy Tur added on Monday, Why would someone like Mitch McConnell or anybody else be so willing to give up congressional authority their own power to support anyone Democratic, Republican or Independent?
That doesnt make any sense, she added.
A measure to block Trumps fake emergency declaration may very well pass both chambers of Congress as a key number of Republicans have publicly expressed their concerns, but the president is likely to veto it.
If Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, refuse to override that potential veto and prevent a blatant abuse of power by Trump, they are once again abdicating their responsibilities and making Congress an irrelevant branch of government.
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'What's The Point Of Congress?': Katy Tur Rips GOP For Turning Blind Eye To Trump's Power Grab (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2019
OP
DBoon
(22,288 posts)1. The word is "quisling"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling
Note:
In a June 2018 New York Times column, Paul Krugman called US President Donald Trump a "quisling", in reference to what Krugman described as Trump's "serv[ing] the interests of foreign masters at his own countrys expense" and "defend[ing] Russia while attacking our closest allies".[20] Other publications also revived the term in the 2010s for use in describing President Trump and his associates and supporters.[21]
Note:
In a June 2018 New York Times column, Paul Krugman called US President Donald Trump a "quisling", in reference to what Krugman described as Trump's "serv[ing] the interests of foreign masters at his own countrys expense" and "defend[ing] Russia while attacking our closest allies".[20] Other publications also revived the term in the 2010s for use in describing President Trump and his associates and supporters.[21]
mucifer
(23,374 posts)2. The point of congress is to appease their russian overlords the GOP anyway.
at140
(6,110 posts)3. You want a simple answer?
Congress is bitterly divided!
You want a complex answer? I just don't know!
dlk
(11,438 posts)4. What's the Point of Trump? He's Not Doing the Job
oasis
(49,152 posts)5. K and R for Katy
tanyev
(42,360 posts)6. It doesn't make any sense unless they are complicit or being blackmailed.
Then it makes perfect sense.