quash said:
YoakDaddy said:
quash said:
YoakDaddy said:
quash said:
Doc Holliday said:
quash said:
Senate votes to override. At least 7 Republicans. Watch fake conservatives castigate real conservatives for doing the right thing.
They don't have enough votes to override Trump's upcoming veto of this.
So I applaud the RINO's for ratting themselves out. First time congress has ever rejected a Presidential emergency under the 1976 national emergency act.
Illegal immigration is big business: too bad you know nothing about that. You just applauded the swamp in it's attempt to perpetuate illegal immigration so they can get rich from it.
I applaud Senators who follow the Constitution. Thanks for proving my point.
Did congress take away that 1976 law giving the president that authority? Did I miss something?
BTW....I think this is a poor use of that authority, but nevertheless they gave it to a president.
Elsewhere I have argued that there are several unconstitutional delegations of congressional power to the executive. Doesn't matter how long Congress has let it go. Really ironic that this particular authority was granted so soon after the imperial presidency.
Nixon or the book? Not disagreeing that all government branches have exceeded the authority granted under the constitution (IMO the constitution isn't a suicide pact.) and government has grown too large exceeding what the Framers intended, but congress did authorize a president this authority.
This authority and others. It is only partly about the growth of govt. If Congress won't protect it's own authority the checks and imbalances will grow.
The reason POTUS was voted against by even his own party has everything to do with money and nothing to do with questioning authority.
Money controls congress. Bigger government is access to more money for ALL of congress.
Whips and leaders of both parties will strip any member of congress's power if they do not vote in lock step with their agenda of passing massive lobbying fueled spending bills like the Omnibus which they themselves get a cut from. They use 501c's and essentially launder money. They can also game the stock market.
I think you're not seeing the point I'm trying to make:All members of Congress can use political problems like illegal immigration to their advantage. For one, they can campaign on a problem if they perpetuate it.
Second, Human smuggling is big business. If you dig in to the
IRS 990 forms of non-profits that run unaccompanied minor shelters, you'll see a lot of, well, "generous" wage/benefit perks. Golf, florists, cafe's, mysterious leases, land purchases, third party mortgages, $$$ Spouses on the payroll, etc of the money it receives from the federal government for unaccompanied children officials with the non-profit.
Sad thing is, it's you and me that are paying the South American human smugglers through U.S. taxpayer funds. Laundered through the immigration business bagmen at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and/or, U.S. Catholic Charities, or Southwest Key Programs Inc; or Baptist Child and Family Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS-EMD), just to name a few.
These immigration groups, get *MASSIVE* HHS grants and then pay-off the DC politicians and human smugglers, including MS13. Billions of dollars are spent, and the business has exploded in the past six years.
So when you've got each individual immigration business making multi-hundreds of millions; and politicians getting kick-backs (lobbyists); and bribes to Mexican government officials; and payments to smugglers;
who do you think actually wants the business to stop?The "faith-based" crew (Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, etc.) don't want it to stop, because facilitating illegal alien import is now the financial bread and butter amid groups in their base of support. The man/woman in the pew might not know; but the corporation minister, preacher or priest (inside the process) surely does.
The Wall Street, big GOPe, U.S. Chamber of Commerce crew doesn't want it to stop because they benefit from it (cheap labor), and the taxpayers -not them- are the ones funding it.
All I'm saying Quash is that when you follow the money, you get the big picture. We're all arguing against the wrong things. Money needs to get out of politics or this country falls.