Writing a couple of weeks ago for the New York Review of Books, Jonathan Stevenson suggested that "Trump appears to be testing the American political system’s tolerance for soft dictatorship through the cavalier-- and potentially illegal-- use of presidential emergency powers. On February 15, after months of blustery threats, he declared a national emergency on the southern U.S.
SCAM-ALERTElizabeth Warren was in tiny Kermit, West Virginia yesterday, where she and her message were warmly received. The media dubbed it Trump Country. Politico's story headed it like this: Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country. And it is true that Mingo County voters went strongly for Trump in November of 2016.
People who want to take on Trump-- now this is crowdedOn Friday Señor Trumpanzee was down near San Diego on the U.S.-Mexico border, carrying on that "our country is full" and that illegal border crossings must stop. "There is indeed an emergency on our southern border. It’s a colossal surge, and it’s overwhelming our immigration system. We can’t take you anymore. Our country is full." As usual, he's full of shit.
Yesterday, with far too few Republicans in Congress willing to stand up to Trump's assault on the Constitution, Pelosi attempted, futilely, to override his veto of Congress' bipartisan decision to prevent him from stealing legally appropriated money from the military budget to build 57 more miles of his vanity-wall on the southern border.
by NoahRemember the so-called Never Trumpers? They were a small handful of Republicans who feigned dissatisfaction and embarrassment about Trump back in 2016. Of course that looked like utter bullshit then and is now proven to be so. The Republican Party makes no bones about it. They are the Always Trump Party. Throwing it in our faces, they boldly and arrogantly showed it on national television at the Cohen hearings.
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), the furthest right Democrat in the Senate, has, according to ProgressivePunch, been voting far less progressively than any other Democrat in the Senate and less progressively than Kentucky and Louisiana Republicans Rand Paul and John Kennedy!
Yesterday, the House voted, 245-182 to void Trump's absurd declaration of a national emergency on the southern border. Every single Democrat voted for it-- as did 13 Republicans:
A new national Gallup poll shows Trump underwater in every single state he lost in 2016 but also underwater in 13 states he won in 2016! His job approval is between 49 and 40% in Arizona (43%), Texas (41%), Louisiana (49%), Florida (43%), Georgia (44%), North Carolina (45%), Pennsylvania, Ohio (48%), Indiana (48%), Michigan (42%), Wisconsin (42%), Iowa (45%) and Nebraska (49%).
A new poll from YouGov for HuffPo taken last week showed that most registered voters oppose Trump's fake emergency, 57-39%. Among independents, 30% approve and 55% disapprove. So what's next?The House-- 235 Democrats and 197 Republicans-- will pass a resolution of disapproval-- which can't be blocked by McTurtle.
