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The Patriot Post Digest 3-14-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Mar. 14, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/61774-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. After discriminating, therefore, in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary, the next and most difficult task is to provide some practical security for each, against the invasion of the others.” —James Madison (1788)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/61773-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Republicans are divided on Trump’s authority on the border barrier.1
Beto’s ego has him geared up to run for president.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Lee’s Plan to Save Trump’s Emergency Declaration10
The Senate will vote today on a resolution to override President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration11 to fund the border barrier. The Democrat-controlled House easily passed the resolution last month with the help of 13 Republicans who joined the Democrats. It’s likely that the Senate will also pass the measure, as up to 15 GOP senators may vote to override.
Republicans find themselves in a difficult position. While the majority agree with Trump on the need to secure the border, some object to his evoking an emergency declaration as the means to garner greater funding. Many conservatives have long argued that the National Emergencies Act cedes too much power from Congress to the executive branch.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Tuesday sought to offer a possible solution that would serve to uphold Trump’s emergency declaration while at the same time reining in executive power on future emergency declarations. Lee’s bill12, which actually has Trump’s support, would require congressional approval within 30 days of an emergency declaration by the president or it would automatically terminate. Lee argued, “If Congress is troubled by recent emergency declarations made pursuant to the National Emergencies Act, they only have themselves to blame. If we don’t want our president acting like a king, we need to start taking back the legislative powers that allow him to do so.”
The trouble is that, should the Senate take up and pass Lee’s resolution — the unwieldily named Assuring that Robust, Thorough, and Informed Congressional Leadership is Exercised Over National Emergencies (ARTICLE ONE) Act — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has already declared it DOA in the House13.
So, as things currently stand, even if the Senate passes the House’s resolution, Trump is certain to veto it. And the Senate doesn’t have the votes to override that veto, effectively keeping Trump’s emergency declaration in place while it’s duked out in the courts14. “And for what?” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board asks15. “The President doesn’t need to invoke a national emergency to build his wall along the southern border. Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee has pointed out that the White House already has funds at its disposal without declaring an emergency.”
Trump currently has enough money to move forward on constructing the border barrier through to the next round of budget negotiations in the fall, when he can once again press Congress for more border funding. Seemingly, all the emergency declaration has done is give Democrats more political fodder to attack Trump, while dividing Republicans over the issue of executive overreach. We still argue that Trump has not exceeded his authority under the law as it stands currently, but we also believe that the National Emergencies Act grants too much power to the executive branch.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61771-lees-plan-to-save-trumps-emergency-declaration
Beto Was ‘Born to Run’?16
The clown car that is the Democrat 2020 presidential field just added a new member — Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke. The former punk-band bassist, drunk-driving arrestee, and three-term representative from Texas rose to heartthrob status during his losing bid to take Ted Cruz’s Senate seat in 2018. O'Rourke has clearly bought into the hype about himself. Indeed, he coordinated his official announcement this morning with yesterday’s release of a nearly 9,000-word hagiography17 in none other than the aptly named Vanity Fair, in which he admitted, “You can probably tell that I want to run. I do. I think I’d be good at it. … I want to be in it. Man, I’m just born to be in it.”
Well, he’s got the ego to go toe to toe with Donald Trump, that’s for sure.
In his announcement video, O'Rourke pledged to tackle “the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate.” And in a bid to distinguish himself from a crowded field of socialists, O'Rourke insists, “I’m a capitalist. I don’t see how we’re able to meet any of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country without, in part, harnessing the power of the market.” It’s the “harnessing” part that should be most worrisome to Americans.
Besides the pure force of his ego, how will O'Rourke, a privileged white man who married into money, handle the biggest problem most Democrats see in our country — white men? “The government at all levels is overly represented by white men,” he said. “That’s part of the problem, and I’m a white man.” Not to worry; he’ll just hire the right people, he says. “So if I were to run, I think it’s just so important that those who would comprise my team looked like this country. If I were to run, if I were to win, that my administration looks like this country. It’s the only way I know to meet that challenge. But,” he continued, “I totally understand people who will make a decision based on the fact that almost every single one of our presidents has been a white man, and they want something different for this country. And I think that’s a very legitimate basis upon which to make a decision.”
Race is a “very legitimate” basis to decide things in a nation where “all men are created equal.” Got it.
For a better sense of what Beto brings to the table, we’ll leave you with two things. First, the former representative of El Paso said last month, “Absolutely, I’d take the wall down.” What a contrast with President Trump that would be. Far more alarming, however, is O'Rourke’s contemptuous view of the Constitution18. “I think that’s the question of the moment: Does this still work?” he said of the Constitution. Tearing down the wall is bad enough. The next Democrat president, whether O'Rourke or any of the others, would immediately set about to continue Barack Obama’s work of tearing down the Constitution.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61770-beto-was-born-to-run
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Democrats Are Alienating Jewish Millennials19 — The new “Jexodus” movement aims to pull more Jews away from bondage to Democrats.
Leftist Rahm Emanuel Warns Party Is Too Far Left20 — Obama’s former chief of staff warns Dems that it will be their fault if Trump is reelected.
Syria Should Prompt the Return of Mattis21 — Trump’s decision to keep American troops on the ground might be otherwise beneficial.
Video: Environmentalist Rips Green New Deal22 — Former Greenpeace executive Patrick Moore takes on the ecofascists’ plan.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read A Black Female Harvard Professor Reconsiders the Second Amendment23. “The NRA has long been a boogeyman for me.”
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GOOD NEWS
Native American Tribe Covers Funerals for Victims of Alabama Tornadoes25
“A Native American tribe in Alabama has donated $184,000 to help cover the funeral costs of the 23 people killed by powerful tornadoes that hit a small town in Alabama last week.”
“‘This disaster occurred so quickly and affected so many families who had no way to prepare to cover the cost to put their loved ones to rest,’ Stephanie Bryan, CEO and chairman of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, told ABC News. ‘We live in an area that is prone to tornadoes and other natural disasters, so this a tragedy that strikes close to home in many, many ways.’”
“Bryan said that Lee County Coroner Bill Harris reached out to the tribe for financial aid in the aftermath of the tornadoes. Beauregard, a small town within Lee County, was torn apart by two tornadoes on March 3. Initially, the tribe had agreed to donate $50,000, but Harris said it wasn’t enough, Harris told ABC News.”
“[The tribe] said, ‘Tell us what it would take to cover all of it,’ Harris told ABC News. ‘I told them [$184,000] and they said, 'Fine.’”
Read more at ABC News26.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/61741-native-american-tribe-covers-funerals-for-victims-of-alabama-tornadoes |
