President after president, the Executive Branch has been consolidating power through the use of Executive Orders. One of the most egregious examples of this was President Obama writing an EO on DACA because he couldn't get it through Congress. He was justifiably criticized by the right, but today, where is the right when Trump stepped up and said, "Hold my beer?" The EOs he signed yesterday are grossly unconstitutional. The power of the purse lies explicitly with the Congress. The president has no authority whatsoever to unilaterally decide how are we are taxed and how that money is spent. It is irrelevant that Congress couldn't reach a deal. We have three branches of government for a reason. We're not a monarchy. It's not supposed to be easy to make law and policy that impacts 300 million people and in some cases the entire world. Where are the cries of small government from the right? This is a monumental abuse of his power in order to help aid his reelection bid and aside from Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, the Republican Party has been silent on this Constitutional onslaught. If these orders are not overturned by the courts, the right's passiveness is laying another stone towards enabling the Office of President to become a benevolent dictatorship in the future.
President after president, the Executive Branch has been consolidating power through the use of Executive Orders. One of the most egregious examples of this was President Obama writing an EO on DACA because he couldn't get it through Congress. He was justifiably criticized by the right, but today, where is the right when Trump stepped up and said, "Hold my beer?" The EOs he signed yesterday are grossly unconstitutional. The power of the purse lies explicitly with the Congress. The president has no authority whatsoever to unilaterally decide how are we are taxed and how that money is spent. It is irrelevant that Congress couldn't reach a deal. We have three branches of government for a reason. We're not a monarchy. It's not supposed to be easy to make law and policy that impacts 300 million people and in some cases the entire world. Where are the cries of small government from the right? This is a monumental abuse of his power in order to help aid his reelection bid and aside from Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, the Republican Party has been silent on this Constitutional onslaught. If these orders are not overturned by the courts, the right's passiveness is laying another stone towards enabling the Office of President to become a benevolent dictatorship in the future.
President after president, the Executive Branch has been consolidating power through the use of Executive Orders. One of the most egregious examples of this was President Obama writing an EO on DACA because he couldn't get it through Congress. He was justifiably criticized by the right, but today, where is the right when Trump stepped up and said, "Hold my beer?" The EOs he signed yesterday are grossly unconstitutional. The power of the purse lies explicitly with the Congress. The president has no authority whatsoever to unilaterally decide how are we are taxed and how that money is spent. It is irrelevant that Congress couldn't reach a deal. We have three branches of government for a reason. We're not a monarchy. It's not supposed to be easy to make law and policy that impacts 300 million people and in some cases the entire world. Where are the cries of small government from the right? This is a monumental abuse of his power in order to help aid his reelection bid and aside from Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, the Republican Party has been silent on this Constitutional onslaught. If these orders are not overturned by the courts, the right's passiveness is laying another stone towards enabling the Office of President to become a benevolent dictatorship in the future.
He's saying one thing, but doing something else as usual. The "eviction moratorium" is not that at all, but an order to "consider" whether there should be one. This, BTW is the only actual executive order. The rest are memoranda. The $400 unemployment extension robs FEMA's emergency fund for...
First, for all the bitching about President Obama and his executive orders he ranks number 16th in the number of EOs that came from his administration.
Reagan, W., Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, and Warren Harding among others issued more.
Trump is already ranked 26th and he is still only in his first (and hopefully only) term.
Number of executive orders issued by the Presidents of the United States.
www.potus.com
EOs are to have a constitutional basis. The reason so many of Trump's EOs are overturned is because he usurps on Congressional constitutional prerogatives.
Blind Trumpers can't seem to distinguish that EOs issued by Trump are of a different sort than issued by other presidents.
Trump's latest EOs trample upon Congress' tax and spending powers.
The OP is right.
It is all about hypocrisy. Conservative small government or so-called Constitutional conservative hypocrisy anyway,
But as I said many times, Trump supporters are anything but conservative.
To call Trumpers conservative is to defame real conservatives.
Good question. They should, but you know full well if they do the Republicans will dishonestly turn it into a smear campaign of how Democrats want Americans to starve. What happened to allegedly being the party of the Constitution?
There is no way the Democrats can now win this. They blew it. They should have passed a clean bill that addressed the needs of the people. Period. That's what people want. If they had done that and the Republicans don't pass it or tried to load their own corruption into it then the Democrats win.
Trump is a hypocrite with his EO's here as he condemned Obama for his but as inept as he is, he beat Nancy here.
Good question. They should, but you know full well if they do the Republicans will dishonestly turn it into a smear campaign of how Democrats want Americans to starve. What happened to allegedly being the party of the Constitution?
There is no way the Democrats can now win this. They blew it. They should have passed a clean bill that addressed the needs of the people. Period. That's what people want. If they had done that and the Republicans don't pass it or tried to load their own corruption into it then the Democrats win.
Trump is a hypocrite with his EO's here as he condemned Obama for his but as inept as he is, he beat Nancy here.
Good question. They should, but you know full well if they do the Republicans will dishonestly turn it into a smear campaign of how Democrats want Americans to starve. What happened to allegedly being the party of the Constitution?
There is no way the Democrats can now win this. They blew it. They should have passed a clean bill that addressed the needs of the people. Period. That's what people want. If they had done that and the Republicans don't pass it or tried to load their own corruption into it then the Democrats win.
Trump is a hypocrite with his EO's here as he condemned Obama for his but as inept as he is, he beat Nancy here.
First, for all the bitching about President Obama and his executive orders he ranks number 16th in the number of EOs that came from his administration.
Reagan, W., Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, and Warren Harding among others issued more.
Trump is already ranked 26th and he is still only in his first (and hopefully only) term.
Number of executive orders issued by the Presidents of the United States.
www.potus.com
EOs are to have a constitutional basis. The reason so many of Trump's EOs are overturned is because he usurps on Congressional constitutional prerogatives.
Blind Trumpers can't seem to distinguish that EOs issued by Trump are of a different sort than issued by other presidents.
Trump's latest EOs trample upon Congress' tax and spending powers.
The OP is right.
It is all about hypocrisy. Conservative small government hypocrisy anyway,
But as I said many times, Trump supporters are anything but conservative.
To call Trumpers conservative is to defame real conservatives.
These are the people who will be the biggest and loudest crybabies when then next Democratic president decides to use an Executive Order to ban some of their firearms in the name of national security because he/she couldn't get Congress to act.
Pelosi tried to hold relief efforts hostage until she could get what she wanted, and, just like when she tried to do the same with the Articles of Impeachment to get the Senate to agree to her terms, she got her ass spanked.
Americans want leaders working for the American people.
ok when you have a congress whose sole purpose is to stop anything you do and your actions are constitutional Executive orders are fine it's better than the next option send in the military to go after the terrorist congressmen
Taz, you must be sucking on that varmint juice. What is more important, appeasing a congress who doesn't even care enough to stay in town to get the job done or to get money out to people who desperately needs it?
Are you blind to the fact we are in a era of civil war using over reaching laws, and propaganda news machine run by communist? We need to win the war to restore the constitution.. take your blinders off
Eight grueling years of the twisted Kenyan, unparalleled Leftist lunacy and their attempt to de-Americanize our nation yields Dictator-esque action and support from the Right.
That’s where we’re at....good, legitimate, real Americans are that fed up....Many feel as though the Trump presidency may be their only hope to turn shit around. With that, we have essentially extended him full carte blanche to make shit happen for the RIGHT people.
It’s a squash the Democrat Party / Left by ANY MEANS NECESSARY sort of thing.
Dumb ass ***** If you actually read what I wrote you wouldn't be looking like a little ***** right now
"ok when you have a congress whose sole purpose is to stop anything you do and your actions are constitutional Executive orders are fine it's better than the next option send in the military to go after the terrorist congressmen"