When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned that President Trump would declare a national emergency to shift around money to finance his border wall, her denunciation was predictable.
Observing the "Unease" even among many Republicans over Trump's abuse of his power, she noted that "If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency - an illusion that he wants to convey - just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people."
"Let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That's a national emergency. Why don't you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would."
It also underscores the challenge confronting those speaking for the vast majority of Americans who want action in the face of what Pelosi was right to call a national emergency on gun violence.
Congress' decision not to finance Trump's monstrous waste of money in no way justifies his seizing of national emergency powers.
The sense of doom about any progress is so deep that it obscures overwhelming evidence that the politics of guns has changed.
This is why what happened in the House last week on guns deserved far more coverage than it got, and why Pelosi was right to use Trump's phony emergency to highlight a real one.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/18/the_real_national_emergency_the_triviality_of_our_politics_139490.html
Observing the "Unease" even among many Republicans over Trump's abuse of his power, she noted that "If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency - an illusion that he wants to convey - just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people."
"Let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That's a national emergency. Why don't you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would."
It also underscores the challenge confronting those speaking for the vast majority of Americans who want action in the face of what Pelosi was right to call a national emergency on gun violence.
Congress' decision not to finance Trump's monstrous waste of money in no way justifies his seizing of national emergency powers.
The sense of doom about any progress is so deep that it obscures overwhelming evidence that the politics of guns has changed.
This is why what happened in the House last week on guns deserved far more coverage than it got, and why Pelosi was right to use Trump's phony emergency to highlight a real one.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/18/the_real_national_emergency_the_triviality_of_our_politics_139490.html
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