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Trump’s Right: Republicans Opposing His “National Emergency” Because A Future Democrat Might Do The Same, Is A Bunch Of BS
What is real is the mortal fear of offending the President and his base
So lawmakers in his party seem to have hitched on to a new strategy, which just might work. They’re trying to point the President to places in the existing budget where there’s money they’ve already allocated he can potentially designate for wall construction. At least as much, or maybe even more than he expects to get through his “National Emergency”.
Why didn’t the President think of that on his own? One reason we can think of is it’s part of his brand always to do everything in the loudest way possible.
How can he get away with what those Republicans in Congress are now recommending? This isn’t a perfect analogy, but think of the President as the CEO of a major public corporation. They typically don’t fully own or fund that corporation. Shareholders and the Board of Directors do. Yet they have a lot of discretion about how that company is run during their period of leadership, based on their vision for it.
As far as we can tell, this revamped approach was originally floated by Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander in a speech on the Senate floor at…
