“Since the dawn of the republic, the president and Congress have resisted attempts from each other to encroach upon their constitutional powers. Many presidents have asserted, and have abused, executive authority. No one is arguing that President Obama is the first to make this mistake. As Sen. Cruz has detailed in three reports, a Wall Street Journal op-ed, and a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court, no president until President Obama has ever claimed the authority to ignore the explicit text of statutes passed by Congress and unilaterally replace that text with whatever the president wishes. From Obamacare to immigration, to same sex marriage, to marijuana laws, President Obama’s willingness to ignore or alter law is unquestionably outside the scope of executive power. It amounts to legislating, pure and simple.” – statement from the office of Sen. Ted Cruz in response to a Politifact article written on March 10, 2014.

It was not a matter of why President Donald J. Trump would call a national emergency declaration for more border wall funding; it was just a matter of when.

And sure enough, like clockwork, he did just that on February 15, 2019.

And the moment he did, as predicted, the Democratic Party faithful decried that President Trump has once again chosen which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore.

What is ironic is how, in predictable fashion, the two parties we have in this country have flipped their positions on the very action they were fighting over in 2014; presidential overreach.

As S.E. Cupp said on her Twitter page: “Knock, knock, Republicans… anyone home?… Remember conservatism? Limited government? You know, your principles?”

You see, that right there is a damn good question to ask your so-called conservative friends.

And when I mean so-called conservatives, I’m talking about the ones who defend the actions of this president like none other and fail to look at themselves in the mirror and say, “Who the hell am I?”

DRINKING THE KOOL-AID GAVE YOU AMNESIA

If you, as one of the people who defend this administration to no end, think you’re not having a case of amnesia, ask yourself this question: should a president, no matter what party affiliation, be able to circumvent the constitution because he wants to keep a campaign promise?

I want you to ask yourself that question because if you think that building a wall is a national emergency…you’ve officially drank Trumpade and there is no cure.

National emergencies are things that come up all of a sudden; like hurricanes or natural disasters. Building the wall, to stop illegal trafficking, is not a national emergency.

You don’t have to believe me; let’s let another conservative talk show host tell you.

Fox’s Chris Wallace has Stephen Miller on his show Sunday morning and began pushing for answers.
“One point six million people were stopped crossing the border illegally in back in 2000,” Wallace explained, “less than a quarter that many were caught last year.”

“Eighty to 90 percent of the cocaine, heroin and fentanyl seized at the border is seized at ports of entry, not along unfenced areas,” Wallace said. “And in 2017, twice as many of the new people in the country illegally were from visa overstays as were from crossing the border,” he also pointed out, asking: “Again, where’s the emergency?”

What Wallace was using was the facts from this administration’s own data; not a previous administration or some weak website of liberal constraints.

And Miller, like all the Trump lackeys, couldn’t give a straight answer because the facts simply did not hold up to their reality. But that doesn’t stop him and others.

Let me move to another supporter who seems to forget what he said about the previous president and his use of executive orders.

Wallace had Rush Limbaugh on the show and started pressing him as well.

As taken from the broadcast and from The Hill:

WALLACE: “I understand that you like what President Trump is doing and you didn’t like what President Obama was doing. And that’s the concern here, is that to the degree you give the president more and more powers, yes you’re going to get things from one president you like, but you’re going to get executive powers from another president that you don’t like.”

LIMBAUGH: “You may look at it that way. I don’t. “I look at what Trump is doing as something he has to do because he’s not getting any cooperation whatsoever.”

And there folks is the Conservative Hypocrisy…in a nutshell.

WHAT’S GOOD FOR THAT DAMN GOOSE….

You know the old saying, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”? If you don’t think that an emergency declaration to get funding for a wall is not the busting open of Pandora’s box and the watching the Constitution be set on fire like a cheap dish towel, then you have no understanding of politics or constitutionality.

That is where the current GOP is at: they don’t know who and what they are.

There was once a time when Republicans would not only trounce the move Trump made, they would be blasting him on every level.

Today?

It’s all about the capitulation and adoration to finally having someone wear the red jersey; even if he’s the worst representative of conservative values walking the planet.