As I have Talking Heads “Life During Wartime” playing in the
background (actually the Whole Stop Making Sense concert), I am trying to
determine if Trump’s National Emergency is a non sequitur or the worst Constitutional
Crisis in our history.
How do you undo a National Emergency? Is the Democrats plan
to create legislation enough? And if Trump vetoes it, what happens? Will the
Republicans stand pat with the President or vote to override a veto? And then
if it is vetoed, what does he do next? And
on and on it may go, hence the Constitutional Crisis. What if he calls up the
National Guard to oust Congress? Okay an extreme, but right now I fear anything
is possible, the worst mostly or he could just flat out tire of the whole
thing. Who knows?
What is crazy one of the lines in the song after Life During
Wartime is “ the President is crazy, did you hear what he said” I must have had
that in my subconscious when I decided to play the Talking Heads.
And as any reasonable person knows, the same amount of
border patrol it would take to monitor the wall every time it is breached is
exactly what we could do without the wall. It wouldn’t hurt to put a bit more
personnel patrolling the border, some drones, an airstrip or two just to keep
an eye on things. Once we build the wall we are going to need these same people
to find all the breaches in the wall if Trump is correct with how many crazed
illegal immigrants are flowing across the desert into our country. Sheesh.
To me it seems like the Democrats love illegal immigrants
just to annoy Trump. I know that isn’t the case, but there is no need to embrace
illegal immigration. We can maintain an immigration policy within reason and
maintain a sense about who immigrates here and people who are here illegally on
expired visas etc be shown the door. There is this incredible belief among the
left that we just have to allow anyone and everyone into the country. For many
reasons the left doesn’t want to admit that just isn’t feasible. There is a balance
somewhere between Trump and the far left, but the atmosphere in this country
won’t allow common sense to exist. (Yes that is a bad pun based on the music I
am playing, but also very true).
“You feel like talking to someone who knows the difference
between right and wrong”
Isn’t that the truth?
The power play developing in Washington is unhealthy for the
majority of this country, yet as always there is no traction for anyone in
Congress to start producing rational public policy. The Reps and Dems knew the
top may come off if the government shut down again, so with an insane and
unnecessary deadline thrust upon them created a budget bill of sorts. Something
that should be done routinely, but we elected a nutbag and the Republicans do
not have the cajones to stand up to him. They say it is his base, but it is him
ranting about them they fear more. His base only follows his target of the day
so if they all stood up to him he couldn’t keep up. And his base that shows up
at his rallies are the diehard extremists. Most are angry, but they aren’t mad.
If Congress actually stood up and did things that they felt addressed their
needs the need for Trump would wither away. People who work hard and have
something to lose, are not in the mood to watch it burn up.
It is just getting them to realize there is hope, beyond the
extreme.
“And you may ask yourself, how did I get here”
“Letting the days go by”
Cheers
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