{"id":35487,"date":"2019-02-14T23:16:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35487"},"modified":"2019-02-14T23:16:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:16:02","slug":"trump-refusing-to-think-strategically-on-this-emergency-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35487","title":{"rendered":"Trump refusing to think strategically on this emergency matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34722\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/border-wall.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John &#8220;RINO in Chief&#8221; Trump is likely to invite a serious bit of political revenge that could occur not long after he leaves office.<\/p>\n<p>An actual Republican president would understand it, but Trump isn&#8217;t anything close to being a doctrinaire GOP politician. He is the nation&#8217;s premier Republican In Name Only.<\/p>\n<p>You see, if the president declares a national emergency &#8212; where no such thing exists &#8212; to institute a money grab to pay for The Wall along on the southern border, he opens the door wide open to a Democratic president down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Trump seeks the money to build The Wall from other appropriated funds. Congress is planning a legal challenge if the president follows through with his reported threat.<\/p>\n<p>But . . . what if the national emergency declaration withstands a court challenge? That could mean a future Democratic president could issue a similarly nonsensical national emergency to push progressive programs forward.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised at this, given Trump&#8217;s ignorance about government, politics, public policy or national history.<\/p>\n<p>He wants The Wall. He seems to want <em>something<\/em> that he can claim as a &#8220;tribute&#8221; to his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>However, there might be a political cost to pay.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a potentially big cost at that!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John &#8220;RINO in Chief&#8221; Trump is likely to invite a serious bit of political revenge that could occur not long after he leaves office. An actual Republican president would understand it, but Trump isn&#8217;t anything close to being a doctrinaire GOP politician. He is the nation&#8217;s premier Republican In Name Only. You see, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump refusing to think strategically on this emergency matter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[709,1424,8273,4784],"class_list":["post-35487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-border-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-national-emergency","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35488,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions\/35488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}