Trump issues first veto in targeting congressional rejection of his emergency declaration

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post



President Trump issued the first veto of his presidency Friday to secure federal money for a border wall he promised as a candidate and considers a crucial priority for reelection, capping a week of confrontation with both political parties.

“Today I am vetoing this resolution. Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Twelve Republicans had joined Democrats to challenge Trump over his declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, which would allow the president to circumvent Congress and spend billions on wall construction. The rare rebuke from members of his own party was symbolically important, but Congress does not have the votes to overturn Trump’s veto.

“I’d like to thank all of the Great Republican Senators who bravely voted for Strong Border Security and the WALL,” Trump tweeted ahead of his veto action. “This will help stop Crime, Human Trafficking, and Drugs entering our Country. Watch, when you get back to your State, they will LOVE you more than ever before!”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-poised-to-issue-first-veto-of-his-presidency-over-emergency-declaration/2019/03/15/a8fe3a86-474c-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html

[The Genealogist]

1. Why does have broccoli in his pocket? Or is that parsley?

[jmowreader]

2. I think they're shamrocks

[The Genealogist]

5. Thanks

If he was carrying broccoli around, I'd know hed finally and totally flipped his lid. Hed never eat that.

[RKP5637]

6. Pot???

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Damn

Was gonna say the same thing but then had to go do something and came back to the 'puter and saw your post!

[jmowreader]

12. I doubt it

If he was high he'd be more coherent.

[RKP5637]

15. Yeah, he would, wouldn't he. n/t

[The Genealogist]

32. Or maybe it would calm his ass down a little

He could use some calming. Bigly!

[0rganism]

22. is he wearing it like this?

it might be fashionable on his home planet...

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Broccoli Brothers Circus

[Still In Wisconsin]

28. It's boogers. n/t

[ZZenith]

3. "He promised as candidate" that Mexico was going to pay for it.

Why the f is the Washington Post trying to make his demand sound noble?

[SunSeeker]

8. Exactly. So fucking frustrating.

[lefty2000]

21. Where Is The Slant?

I read the online version of the report in the Wash. Post and I didn't pick up on the effort to make Trump's action seem noble. What do you base that on?

[ZZenith]

23. Seriously?

It’s right there in the first sentence:

President Trump issued the first veto of his presidency Friday to secure federal money for a border wall he promised as a candidate and considers a crucial priority for reelection, capping a week of confrontation with both political parties.”

Leaving out the part about how he promised that some other country would pay for his stupid promise is a rather glaring omission, donchaknow? To suggest that he’s doing it to make good on a promise he made to the American people is mendacious and leaves out some critical detail, donchathink?

[TwilightZone]

24. By now, I think it's assumed pretty much everyone knows he said Mexico would pay for it.

The rest of it is factually correct and I don't see it as editorializing. Your mileage may vary.

[ZZenith]

25. I am getting very poor mileage out of every single major media outlet in this country

who have done everything in their powers to normalize this monster. The urine that has been trickling down on our heads is not rainwater, and they have been SO reluctant to inform us that it is, indeed, urine. Asparagus style urine, even.

Words mean things - they are the oxygen of the body politic and just so long as they continue to frame events in the language of normalcy we shall remain sopping wet.

Let any moderately literate adult with their finger on the pulse of events in this country -anyone who isn’t concerned with their next quarterly earnings report - rewrite this article and a different picture will emerge of exactly what this cornered rat is attempting to accomplish. You do realize he just threatened to use our military and police against his political opponents, don’t you?

I am out of patience with these media outlets who STILL, after all that’s transpired in the last several decades, try to soft pedal the situation in which we find ourselves.

[mr_lebowski]

27. HEAR F***ING HEAR MY FRIEND ZZ!

Agree, 1000%.

Media is a friggin' joke, even the WaPo and NYT are half-way down the toilet at best.

[ZZenith]

29. From now on they need to lead every sentence concerning Trump with:

“After threatening his political opponents with the use of the U.S. military and local police forces, President Trump today blah, blah, blah...”

I saw no mention of it in the last few issues of The Washington Post. How is this not huge fucking news?!!

[mr_lebowski]

31. It really is UNbelievable ... media is failing hard on this one ...

I would hope at least the late-night people picked up on it but I didn't watch anything last night.

Freaking depressing.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Now what? Fight it out in the courts?

The man is an insane monster.

[RKP5637]

7. And the more insane he gets the more his damn cult tries to normalize it. n/t

[littlemissmartypants]

34. +1000 nt

[William Seger]

11. Yes, declaring the emergency is one thing

... getting his tiny hands on the money to pay for his Magic Wall is another. The National Emergencies Act doesn't enable him to misappropriate money budgeted for other purposes.

[iluvtennis]

10. What are the next steps? Does this go to court and be held up while in litigation or does it mean

that the $8 Billion he wants for the wall goes into affect immediately.

Thanks for clarifying.

[cstanleytech]

13. Depends. A Court can of course put a hold on it but ultimately it will be up to SCOTUS

which is currently packed with Trump leaning supporters though that might not long after the next Democratic president with a Democratic Senate majority declares a National Supreme Court Emergency and increases the number of SCOTUS from 9 to 15.
Followed of course by the Senate ramming through 6 liberal justices with a majority vote of 51 thanks to the Repugnants giving there consent to do that.

[iluvtennis]

14. Thanks for the reply back. And love your idea of the Nat'l Emergency for the upcoming Dem POTUS

[jmowreader]

19. Only six?

Young person, you are not thinking clearly enough. The next Democratic president needs to expand the Supreme Court to 19 seats. This will enable us to seat two panels - one in DC where it's always been, the other in San Francisco. The Chief Justice and his or her staff will supervise the certiorari board.

By expanding the Court so much, we can place two of the five current conservative justices on the Western Division court, and backfill both benches with good solid legal thinkers...who make Stephen Reinhardt look like Antonin Scalia.

[cstanleytech]

20. I certainly would not object to that either.

[billh58]

16. Tracking the legal challenges to Trump's emergency declaration

(CNN)As President Donald Trump moves forward with plans to build additional physical barriers along the southern border, his administration will have to contend with a slew of lawsuits challenging the national emergency declaration allowing him, in part, to do so.

So far, at least seven lawsuits have been filed challenging the declaration. The argument at the core of each lawsuit is similar: Trump exceeded his authority and circumvented Congress in an attempt to achieve his signature campaign promise for an emergency that, plaintiffs argue, doesn't exist.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/national-emergency-declaration-lawsuit-tracker/index.html

Hopefully, one or more of the lawsuits will gain traction.

[iluvtennis]

17. Fingers crossed one of the lawsuits put a hold on him using any funds over what congress approved.

[world wide wally]

18. He just vetoed the Constitution.

[keithbvadu2]

26. Overriding the veto is completely up to the republicans. They have the power.

Overriding the veto is completely up to the republicans.

They have the power here.

A few republicans can look tough on the first vote but the override vote will tell.

They want their cake and eat it too.

[area51]

30. Trump: "... they will LOVE you more than ever before."

How about doing something about one of the real emergencies, with 45k people dying per year due to lack of healthcare (see sig line), and tell his nazi party members to support Rep. Jayapal's bill.

[littlemissmartypants]

35. The president of stoopid. Jazz hands deluxe.

“This will help stop Crime, Human Trafficking, and Drugs entering our Country. Watch, when you get back to your State, they will LOVE you more than ever before!”

NO, IT WON'T YOU IDIOT.

Why would you want to interfere with all your side hustles, anyway?

Pres-tidigitation sit down and shut up.

Nobody cares about you.





Please forgive me, BumRushDaShow. I just needed to vent. I feel better now. Thanks.