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Trump Executive Ambitions Worry Some Conservatives
The Blaze ^ | Jan. 18, 2016 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 01/18/2016 7:12:48 PM PST by Isara

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To: Kickass Conservative
Not defending it, just putting it out there.

Obama knows how to play the propaganda game. While he's issued fewer Executive Orders than other Presidents he's issued more Presidential Memoranda than any other President, and they have the same effect.

141 posted on 01/19/2016 5:09:46 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Marcella

“His judgment may also be off”

Fully agree; we have been seeing it on full display...only a week or two ago, Ted Cruz was a “great guy”, “smart guy”, “been very nice to me”...now Trump turns on a dime and says Cruz is a “dishonest, nasty guy”, “ultimate hypocrite”, “nobody likes Ted”, etc, etc.....only because Ted hit back for the nonsensical birther statements pushed by Trump.

Phineas T Trump admits in the debate that he’s going after Ted now due to the Cruz surge in polling. Trump takes to Twitter Saturday morning and lashes out hysterically at Ted. I know there are space limits with Twitter, but what does it say about a person who puts out nearly 20 hostile tweets on Saturday morning alone!

I don’t know what this erratic behavior is exactly (schizophrenia, megalomania, narcissism???), but there appears to be something wrong with Trump’s personalty. What is President Trump to do when his other bro-friend, Vlad Putin, makes a military or financial move against NATO, Europe, or the US to challenge the Donald? And, he’s got access to the nuclear codes as well as to his iPhone Twitter account!? We should all be at least a bit frightened by this prospect. Hillary or Bernie (certainly the DNC) are already formulating that TV ad!!!


142 posted on 01/19/2016 5:15:59 AM PST by HoosierWordsmith
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To: Isara

I see the new talking point has been sent out from Rove’s HQ

“Trump the dictator”

Pure unadulterated hysteric BS.


143 posted on 01/19/2016 5:49:23 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

An ad hominem (Latin for “to the man” or “to the person”[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attack on an argument made by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, rather than attacking the argument directly. When used inappropriately, it is a logical fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized.[2] Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact or when used in certain kinds of moral and practical reasoning.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem


144 posted on 01/19/2016 6:13:38 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Mollypitcher1

I have studied the issue enough that I am quite certain that Cruz in a Natural Born Citizen and that I would be very shocked if any court found otherwise.


145 posted on 01/19/2016 7:55:37 AM PST by dschapin
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To: House Atreides

You can’t blame this on Trump. The blame here is n a lay down and do noting congress that let O’Bastard get away with everything.


146 posted on 01/19/2016 7:57:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Tzfat

Please don’t commit suicide when Trump wins the election. There are many anti depressants that can stop your self destructive thoughts.


147 posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:21 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

No one has any objection to Trump, Cruz or whoever becomes president using executive orders to revoke Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders. There is no question that the President can do that Constitutionally. The problem is if Trump goes further then tries to push his legislative agenda through unconstitutional executive orders. That is what it sounds like what Trump is thinking of doing when he talks about how Obama is setting a precedent that he (Trump) will use for good.


148 posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:25 AM PST by dschapin
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To: Isara

Show me someone who ran for political office that did not seek power. Are you all crazy?


149 posted on 01/19/2016 8:46:00 AM PST by R Rogers
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To: HoosierWordsmith; Jim Robinson
I said: "His judgment may also be off."

You said: “Fully agree; we have been seeing it on full display...only a week or two ago, Ted Cruz was a "great guy;smart guy; been very nice to me; now Trump turns on a dime and says Cruz is "dishonest, nasty guy; ultimate hypocrite; nobody likes Ted etc, etc.....”

After I made that post about Trump not getting enough sleep and what that could cause, someone who is an avid Trump supporter posted to me I did not know what I was talking about.

I was a psychological examiner for twenty years. Some of my patients were sent to me by the Social Security Administration to determine if those patients should receive disability payments. They made their decision whether or not to give them disability payments based on the testing I did and my recommendation whether or not they were disabled to the point they could not work.

I tested people for about five hours, did an interview with them before testing, reviewed all their medicines as they had to bring those with them, and my reports were about eleven pages long, singled spaced. I knew their future depended on my report so I was diligent to make sure my recommendations were correct.

In that work, I had to know about brain functions, brain injury, brain strokes, AND what lack of sleep does to the brain.

I stand by my post Trump likely does not get enough deep sleep (he says he sleeps 3-4 hours) to reset his brain and body. I would like to know if his balance is off, can he walk in a straight line, does he tend to fall? Does he still play golf or has he stopped doing that? Not enough deep sleep can cause balance problems as well as the other behaviors I posted.

When Trump posted what his doctor said about him, I laughed. The doctor's report read like Trump wrote it and I think he did and had the doctor sign it. There was one sentence that was Trump to a tee. It read something like this: “Mr. Trump is the healthiest man to ever run for president.” I laughed. Of course, no doctor knows the health of every man who ran for president. That sentence was an absolute lie and no doctor would write that.

150 posted on 01/19/2016 9:55:47 AM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today))
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To: Tzfat

You really need to get out more.


151 posted on 01/19/2016 2:16:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Every home needs a crewznadian that has been domestically trained.)
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To: Isara

Our country and its elections are in real danger. I can tell you that I personally witnessed hundreds of illegals voting at my polling location during the last election. I was a lawyer for Romney at the Las Vegas polls and had to stand by and watch these people vote, protecteded by their Union enforcers. Why? because they were pre-Registered by their union bosses, so of course we could not stop them from voting. The election has been stolen at the registration table.

We could have had Nevada last time. I have no idea how many other states we lost in a similar fashion. We are going to have a tough time voting ourselves out of this mess. A bare majority will not suffice. Would a Cruz candidacy produce a landslide victory by attracting all large swath of voters? NO.

You lack urgency. Its in the ninth inning. And we are down by 4.


152 posted on 01/19/2016 2:36:42 PM PST by GeaugaRepublican (Angry yes, mad, no.)
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To: FourPeas

sure i’m ok with a dictator to undo the last 150 years of dictators
common core dept of education eliminated - next dictator has to deal with educated people. i’m ok with that. if i got elected i might do the line up here boom with congress and most on the government payroll. then call for elections and you all figure it out.>>>
not my dictator but i post the rational. there is no republic or functional government. the flag outside my house is inverted. i’m ready for the aftermath.


153 posted on 01/19/2016 6:37:19 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: kvanbrunt2

Got punctuation?
154 posted on 01/19/2016 6:40:04 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: The Toll
Oooooh do you think we’ll get right wing death squads out if it? I hadn’t even considered that. Great idea!

Go read post #30 - seems like some Trump supporters are already thinking in those terms.

155 posted on 01/19/2016 6:53:11 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Clean house in the court system by replacing all activist judges that are under appointment descresion.

All Article 3 judges (District, circuit court and SCOTUS) are lifetime appointments. You can't "clean house" in the Federal judicial system.

156 posted on 01/19/2016 6:56:45 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: tennmountainman
If Obama can bypass Congress, so can the next President, be it Trump or Cruz.

I find it amusing that so many of the people who have been screaming to the heavens that Cruz is not eligible because of a phrase in the Constitution that has never been defined in US law, are apparently in favor of just abandoning the Constitution altogether.

157 posted on 01/19/2016 7:01:26 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Kickass Conservative
The problem is, EO's are Constitutional.

EOs are constitutional only insofar as they are used to manage how the Executive branch operates. They are not constitutional if they change duly passed statutes or bypass the other two branches of the government.

158 posted on 01/19/2016 7:03:59 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: trebb
And Cruz would have to do the same if he wanted to get anything done - repealing Obama's EOs will have to be done via new EOs because the Congress won't be helpful.

Repealing EOs can ONLY be done by EO. People are not concerned about Trump or anyone else repealing Obama's EOs by using EOs. What concerns the Constitutional conservatives is Trump's apparent plan to use EOs in the same way that Obama has - to circumvent the separation of powers and impose policies that he cannot get Congress to pass.

159 posted on 01/19/2016 7:24:50 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Tzfat

Yes, they are.


160 posted on 01/19/2016 8:59:45 PM PST by MLL
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