Declare an Emergency Donnie

For the moment, Donnie has chosen not to declare an emergency. However, his decisions have a remarkably short half-life and began to decay immediately. In fact, there is an emergency but it is not the fabricated crisis on the southern border. Our emergency is that we have an ignorant incompetent delusional buffoon as president. But I digress.

If I do the mental equivalent in these circumstances of a double backflip with three twists, I can envision an optimistic result. Should Donnie declare an emergency and state that he is going to build a wall, that should allow his handlers on the Fox network to declare he has powerfully defeated the cowardly and unpatriotic Democrats and will build a wall as promised. That would allow Donnie to tell Mitch McConnell that he will sign legislation getting the government open and running again.

And Of course there will be litigation filed claiming that Donnie has exceeded his Powers under the 1976 act. Assuming that litigation rolls along, we will determine whether the federal courts are willing to look at the substance of the claims constituting an emergency or whether they will give extreme deference to presidential executive orders. There has been an increasing tendency of presidents to claim ever broader executive powers. During the George W. Bush administration W's Iago, Dick Cheney, or was it Cheney the dick, and his lawyer David Addison advanced the concept of a unitary presidency with broad executive powers. One of the results was the a large number of" signing orders". It is a fair statement that subsequent presidents became enamored of broad executive power. Typically, the political party whose man is not the president claims the current occupant is exceeding executive powers and that party whose man is occupying the White House finds it in their heart to approve broad executive power.

Perhaps if the courts were to rule that Trump's flimsy arguments were sufficient to invoke emergency powers, Congress might find the courage to repeal the 76 act and maybe the War Powers Act as well.

What the hell, a guy can dream. Before I forget, Mitch McConnell is a truly despicable jerk.