Posted on 02/17/2019 6:37:44 PM PST by SJackson
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn’t agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that if President Trump can declare a national emergency to bypass Congress in order to secure funding for his long-promised border wall, a Democratic president can do the same for guns.
“The one thing you don’t want to mimic … their politics,” Emanuel said during a guest appearance Friday on HBO’s’ Real Time with Bill Maher. “He [Trump] wants you on certain cases to actually mimic what he’s doing because then there’s a difference of nothing. That’s not where you want to go against him.”
The conversation quickly moved on to other topics without a mention of Friday's deadly workplace shooting in Aurora, Ill., that ended with six dead, including the gunman, and several wounded police officers.
Emanuel -- the former White House chief of staff under former President Barack Obama -- believes Trump is using a national emergency declaration, not to enhance border security, but to deliver on his signature campaign promise.
he two-term mayor was then asked his thoughts on embattled Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, who has resisted calls to resign over his 1984 medical school yearbook page that featured one person in Ku Klux Klan garb and another in blackface. Northam denies that he is in the photo.
“I don’t buy that that's not his photo,” said Emanuel, before making his case that Northam shouldn't leave office. He cited Obama’s initial opposition to gay marriage and Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation of slaves.
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Emanuel -- the former White House chief of staff under former President Barack Obama -- believes Trump is using a national emergency declaration, not to enhance border security, but to deliver on his signature campaign promise....“You have a faux constitutional crisis to basically cover a real campaign crisis,” he said “This is all about the campaign. Some pledge he made.”
No hesitation, it's incomprehensible to Rahm that a campaign promise could be based on a candidate's beliefs. Border security. Promise it in your campaign, heck, promise a wall. Once elected, why bother with that, just cause you promised it, says Rahm. Doesn't much matter what candidates of Rahm's chosen party say or even promise, that nonsense is forgotten once the votes are counted.
His lips were moving so he was lying.
Rahm knows that Democrats don’t live by the same rules they impose on Republicans. They can’t.
Trent Lott resigned for much less.Democrats are awful I hope the Abortion Governor stays as a target and reminder in 2020.
He did his level best killing off a bunch of the black folk in the Windy City, but he never got to wear his sheets. ;-)
Well he’s used to promises like, “ if you like your plan you can keep it.” So you can understand his bewilderment about Pres. Trump.
Because that one's blowing up in their faces.
An national emergency order is not a constitutional crisis when it a> is solely within the powers of the executive office as defined by the constitution (border security and b> the border is under active threat - or have we forgotten about the forced migration marches supported and started by Obama under his ILLEGAL (proven) executive order.
Declaring a national emergency to usurp constitutional rights like... I dunno... GUN CONFISCATION is a true abuse of power and threat to the United States.
Like Rahm Emanuel has ordered as mayor.
Rahm is the nastiest ballerina ever. Don’t let his pink tutu fool you.
Rahm Emanuel boasted about winning 6 consecutive elections.
Of course, he could not bring himself to acknowledge that he usually steamrolled weak opponents, that city patronage workers campaigned for him on the clock during his first Congressional race and several went to prison as a result, that he was the first Chicago mayor forced into a run-off and spent millions to be reelected, or the fact that he bowed out of the 2019 race because his polls showed that he was unelectable.
It’s hard to get more slimy than Rham Emanuel. He gives Anthony Weiner and Sid Blumenthal a run for that money.
One rope for him and one rope for his brother
As detestable as Rahmbo is, he did engineer the Dem takeover of Congress in 2006. And they would do much better if they would listen to him.
Fortunately today’s young, radical AOC vanguard does not have the time of day for him.
Virginia’s Northam (Coonman) will never resign - and if all the racists in the Democrat Party had to resign they’d lose a fourth of their power.
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