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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (214289)10/10/2021 8:04:59 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 356115
 
That incident became precedent. Next time a president needs a month or two, he’s got it.

Again, I'm not expressing approval, just to be clear. But things are broken. Started with Newt, seems to me, the shift from collegial rivalry to war. I consider the incident in question a case of "easier to ask for forgiveness than permission." That technique is a normal response to emergency situations were permission is unobtainable in real time. As we discussed before, that situation would not have existed had Congress taken proper care of landlords in the first place.

I agree that a month or two becomes precedent. Forgiveness over permission is already precedent. The extension of coloring outside the lines continues. It will continue until such time as the GOP decides it wants to be a governing party and stops the war or until it all devolves and collapses. We have a situation where you can't unilaterally disarm without dereliction of duty. There may be dereliction in the failure to act.

As for threats to the Constitution, respectful, knowing individual incidents of said coloring aren't, IMO. Not when people know what they are and wink and nod over them in private. It's when some bull in a china shop doesn't know or understand or care or for his own purposes just uses the system to ride roughshod over everything. Or when a party wants power rather than governance. There's the threat to the Constitution.
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