The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Roy Blunt: Nope?

GOP Senator Roy Blunt says use of national emergency to build the wall sets a bad precedent

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)  said if President Donald Trump invoked his emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border it would be a “bad precedent.”

Blunt said, “I happen to agree with the president on barriers at the border and on border security as an important first step, but there might be a future president that I don’t agree with that thinks something else is an emergency. 

"I think it’s a bad precedent. I hope the president doesn’t have to go there. 

"If we’ll do our job, he won’t even have to consider going there three weeks from now.”

But that bit at the end makes it sound like he's willing to go there to get the wall money, all the same.

Just like the Duce.

Meanwhile, Mick Mulvaney is still telling us on TV that Trump will "defend the nation" and "secure the border" with or without the congress.

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