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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 12:48 PM Feb 2019

Discussion of Now Dems can do Emergency for our issues is driving me nuts...

Panel on Joy now....but it has been going on since Friday...NO NO NO..we don't let Trump change the rules...this is nuts and foolhardly...he can't change US Constitution and then we say ok now we can go crazy and be lawless too...

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Discussion of Now Dems can do Emergency for our issues is driving me nuts... (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 OP
That's not what's really going on. Dems are trying to make the point that The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #1
I get that part jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #3
I agree. This framing is insane. manor321 Feb 2019 #2
I totally agree! When they talk like that, they are helping Beige Clump Claritie Pixie Feb 2019 #4
I get your point: you break the constitution California_Republic Feb 2019 #5

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,615 posts)
1. That's not what's really going on. Dems are trying to make the point that
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 12:53 PM
Feb 2019

if Trump can define an emergency as anything Congress won't give him, a Dem president could do the same, so they'd better be careful not to let Trump establish that precedent, lest it come back to bite them in the future.

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
3. I get that part
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 01:00 PM
Feb 2019

but WAY too much chatter on it...O didn't do one for SandyHook or Flint...better to say it that way, no?

Claritie Pixie

(2,199 posts)
4. I totally agree! When they talk like that, they are helping Beige Clump
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 01:40 PM
Feb 2019

in shredding our Constitution. It really pisses me off.

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