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McConnell Reportedly Warns Trump Off Emergency Tactic Amid Possible GOP Revolt
Huffington Post ^ | 2/2/2019 | Mary Papenfuss

Posted on 02/04/2019 6:46:50 AM PST by cowpoke

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To: cowpoke

“This is really laughable to me. The President doesn’t even have to declare an emergency to set aside millions of acres of federal land “with the stroke of a pen.”

Yeah,if oil or some useful natural resource is discovered, democrats do not hesitate to deem 10,000,000 acres as a national monument


21 posted on 02/04/2019 6:59:31 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: TexasGunLover
Not something he'd do in a million years...

You hate the idea of a big beautiful wall for selfish reasons. We get it. He will vacate lower court ruling in an emergency. THINK FOR ONCE.

22 posted on 02/04/2019 7:00:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: cowpoke

Oh no, a split in the GOP

Imagine that, a party that eats its own


23 posted on 02/04/2019 7:01:33 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: butlerweave

“Ooooh that smell
Can’t you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of swamp surrounds you”

h/t Lynyrd Skinner


24 posted on 02/04/2019 7:01:38 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: central_va
THINK FOR ONCE.

Based on all previous actions, the evidence does not support your argument.
25 posted on 02/04/2019 7:01:57 AM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: thoughtomator
Huffpo... anonymous sources.

Fake news.

This. The default position for every single “news item” quoting anonymous sources from CNN, WaPo; The Slimes, HuffPo etc should be it's 100% false until it's independently confirmed by several reputable non MSM sources like Breitbart.

26 posted on 02/04/2019 7:01:58 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: cowpoke

The GOP was pushed into a corner and had no choice but to reveal their true colors, and it’s not red, or purple, just a nauseating shade of blue.


27 posted on 02/04/2019 7:03:36 AM PST by robel
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To: cowpoke
He warned Trump that such a declaration might split the GOP and that Congress could pass a resolution opposing it...

You just go right ahead and do so. I'll contribute to any opponent these traitors face either in the Rat/GOP party or the Lib party.

28 posted on 02/04/2019 7:03:46 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: thoughtomator
I wish it was fake news, but similar articles are in The Hill, Town Hall and many other sources.
29 posted on 02/04/2019 7:05:04 AM PST by cowpoke
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FR POSTED/AMERICAN THINKER/ JONATHON MOSELEY
Texas Can Get Trump’s Border Wall Accomplished [by Texas requesting a national emergency]

Trump’s border wall should initially be built in Texas, postponing California, Arizona, and New Mexico until the
Texas border is secure. That keeps lawsuits in the Fifth Circuit, out of the perilous Ninth. Texas makes it happen.
THE PLAN-—Texas governor Greg Abbott formally requests Pres Trump issue a declaration of emergency.

1) Abbott declares a state-level emergency.

2) Abbott documents an emergency by asking Texas officials to compile incidents of <><>violence,
<><> gang activity, <><>drug-smuggling, <><>human-smuggling, <><> sex-trafficking, etc.

3) Abbott invokes Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution that the federal government “shall” protect
Texas against “invasion” by armed gangs and criminals.

4) The Texas Legislature passes a resolution invoking Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution that the
federal government “shall” protect Texas against “domestic violence” spread from Mexico across the border,
including armed gangs and criminals, drug-smuggling, human-smuggling, sex slavery, etc.


30 posted on 02/04/2019 7:06:49 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: cowpoke

” I am not one of those who believes a wall will solve our illegal immigration problems. “

Those of us that want (additional) walls are purposely misrepresented as thinking exactly that. It’s real clear to anyone looking at the facts that additional wall building is crucial to any plan to reduce illegal border crossing. Those that favor it want to fix the problem. Those that don’t are fine with illegals doing whatever they want at American’s expense.


31 posted on 02/04/2019 7:07:13 AM PST by bluescape (Mainstream Media-The guard dog that holds you down while the attacker has his way.)
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To: butlerweave

Yes, and it stinks.


32 posted on 02/04/2019 7:09:44 AM PST by cowpoke
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To: cowpoke

If trump upsets McConnell and Romney and Collins and Murkowski, he’ll win the 2020 primary in a landslide.


33 posted on 02/04/2019 7:10:49 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: central_va

No; they don’t care how thin the façade of their being a separate party from the Democrats is at this point. They’ve been like this for the better part of the last half-century of the previous century too.


34 posted on 02/04/2019 7:12:18 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cowpoke

Who needs democrat enemies when you have weak brained allies like this?


35 posted on 02/04/2019 7:13:54 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
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To: cowpoke

And there you have it - our political leadership has now proven that they will NOT defend United States citizens but care only about their own power - it’s time to put pressure on all of our representatives both democrat and republican and demand the wall - March knto the capital and lay siege to their offices until they submit to OUR WILL.

This is OUR nation so long as we keep it.

FIGHT


36 posted on 02/04/2019 7:14:27 AM PST by Skywise
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact

Link to John Cornyn’s contact form so you can tell him to build the wall.


37 posted on 02/04/2019 7:18:01 AM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: bluescape

Agree, that’s why I said, ‘But I do believe it is one of several tools that can be used to better manage the problem.’


38 posted on 02/04/2019 7:18:15 AM PST by cowpoke
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To: central_va
The GOPe STILL doesn’t understand Trump is all they have between victory and udder destruction as a party. Craven is the word I want to use here.

Quite right.

That destruction opens the gate and accelerates the already increasing rate of growth of the American Left/DSA/CPUSA. That growth necessarily increases the likelihood of bloodshed, destabilization and foreign involvement.

The nation stands to pay dearly for the GOPe's sellout/false allegiance. The challenge is to accurately identify the tipping point and take timely and effective action to avoid a collapse.

39 posted on 02/04/2019 7:20:11 AM PST by frog in a pot (Result of many state bailouts? Taxpayers elsewhere in America get to finance the Left's growth.)
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To: cowpoke

No doubt the Chamber of Cheap Labor has warned the Turtle that they will cut off GOP campaign cash if President Trump crosses them. He should tell us that in the State of the Union Address tomorrow night. A strong helping of truth would be a political laxative.


40 posted on 02/04/2019 7:20:41 AM PST by txrefugee
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