Obama did it. Since the invention of the
presidential mechanism every president since has used “national
declarations of emergency” for one reason or another. As the president
pointed out in his announcement several of them for much less
significant “emergencies” than his much argued “national security
threat” with which he passionately claims dangerous elements are
invading our nation. President Obama used the declaration a dozen times.
And this writer would wager that unless you’ve gone recently to look
them up, you would be hard pressed to name any of the dozen. At minimum,
two dealt with immigration, and the need of the executive to enforce
law and protect America.
Precedent. National Review Fellow and
Contributing Editor, and former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew
McCarthy began his analysis of President Trump’s announcement by stating
on my show, “While I may not
like a President having this
power, Constitutionally he’s been absolutely empowered to be able to do
exactly what he’s done.” McCarthy is right. From Clinton who most
accessed the action to Bush “43” and Obama the courts have consistently
determined the chief executive was within his Constitutional right to
declare such actions. Unlike the raging crazy stew boiling on Twitter,
there is no requirement that Trump have an “invading uniformed force.”
He also isn’t taking money that isn’t allocated and appropriated. All of
the funds he is claiming will have been. These will include not only
the billion plus of the monies in this year’s budget legislation but an
additional three billion plus that will easily be properly defined from
the Pentagon and Homeland Security as usable for border barrier
development on the southern border. Of the eight billion he is laying
claim to less than half of it will end up being budget reworks and even
marginally questionable application of use. In addition McCarthy
confirmed on my show that the President is on his strongest judicial
grounds when the issue is framed as an act of “national defense.” Courts
almost always back executive branch power to decide what constitutes
such defense. They did so with Bush and Obama in launching man powered
attacks with our military, and they did ultimately with
every and ALL
of Trump’s travel ban actions. Lastly the 9th Circuit—a court that
sided against the President on multiple travel bans—just on Monday,
ruled that the executive branch had
broad discretion
in building, repairing, and extending southern border barriers in a
couple of limited locales. The President’s critics barely knew this
ruling occurred and once brought to their attention usually attempt to
argue that it was limited to the issues of public use and notification.
Certainly it applies to those two areas. Nonetheless the use of the term
“broad discretion” points to a consistent viewpoint in even our most
liberal circuit that the president gets to make the decisions when it
comes to national security.
It IS National Security. For some reason
as soon as the president declared the national emergency the left side
of twitter and the extreme left in America began to make memes about the
President’s golf schedule, his ability to walk and chew gum, and
attempt to discredit his declaration because of (get this) how
long it
took for him to declare it. (Back to what I was saying above this is
oft-forgotten nearly biblically aged idea of being “long suffering.”
Hence giving Congress every last chance possible to do the right thing.)
The left’s actual argument that they honestly believe but dishonestly
portray is that
they just don’t care about security on the southern border.
During the shutdown Democrat leadership was presented a combined report
compiled by the military and the heads of each agency within the
Department of Homeland Security in a private, closed door meeting. Upon
the attempt to have the report explained to her—which had been based on
years of data gathered from the military and DHS, Nancy Pelosi—the top
elected Democrat in the nation—pushed back and said she rejected “the
facts.” A literal refusal to acknowledge the conditions on the ground by
the public servants who work there is what this amounted to. So with a
heavy heart and having been given no other choice, the president had to
decide, “Do we allow thousands more criminal aliens (17,000 apprehended
since 2015,) more terrorists attempt to penetrate our territory (3,000
apprehended since 2015,) more drugs to kill our communities (enough
fentanyl to kill more than 50 million Americans seized in the past
ninety days,) and more human trafficking of women and children to
occur?” President Trump decided these are national security threats. It
is extremely unlikely that a court will decide they aren’t.
Democrats Are Working Against America. Nothing
may be as overtly political in this debate as having watched the
Democratic talking point on Immigration go from Presidents Clinton and
Obama being in favor of “tougher border measures,” of seeing Obama build
a few hundred miles of border barriers, and the current de facto
position for Democrats of Beto O’Rourke saying we should “tear the
existing walls down.” As someone who speaks with and hears from
Americans daily this pendulum swing by Democratic leadership has not
resonated with their base, and certainly not with the “rust belt” Trump
Democrats that swung history’s most improbable election into an
electoral landslide of 30 of 50 states on election night. Make no
mistake, with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar questioning America’s right to
defend herself... With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez definitively calling
America’s courts “anti-American” for affirming Trump’s travel bans that
were found to be 100% Constitutional... And with Beto O’Rourke now
openly saying that by building barriers on our southern border we are
killing women and children... The Democratic personalities that have
become the media darlings are making the “rust belt” equation worse for
them. The church-going pro-union blue collar workers in the midwest that
wondered if Trump would fight for their jobs, wages, and borders are
being presented with an alternative of socialism, post birth abortions
(infanticide), and open borders. The Democrats will lose this choice in
historic numbers and by a larger margin than in 2016 if they do not
change course.
Americans Still Demand It. Following the
government shutdown that concluded on January 25, the day that the
president signed the 21-day government authorization, and the day I
predicted what “would happen” that has since
occurred, another
reality revealed itself. During the shutdown the media conducted snap
polls asking America poorly worded questions about Trump building a
concrete wall, 2000 miles, across the southern border. Even Trump
supporters would answer that question negatively and with breathless
wonder the media would then report the “unpopularity of Trump’s
border security
plans. Lulling themselves to sleep, believing the results of the fake
polls, the Speaker of The House, withdrew an invitation for the
President’s State Of The Union address. Believing themselves on even
firmer ground they smirked as the shutdown continued. And when President
Trump signed the 21 day government into existence they gloated. They
even then re-invited the State of The Union to Capitol Hill. That night a
turning point happened. 72%-76% of viewers liked the President’s speech
of which a large chunk was used to lay out the rationale for the border
protection. From that night until Friday’s declaration of a national
emergency and the multiple national addresses the President has had to
reinforce that rationale the President’s support and approval had
increased in every poll taken. Ipsos, Harris, CNN, FoxNews, YouGov,
Gallup all showed movement in Trump’s direction and in some of them he
hit new highs. And in the Rasmussen poll—the only one two measure
“likely voters” (as opposed to mere “registered voters”) Trump showed a
10% swing spending more than a week above 50%, and hitting a high of 52%
(an amount greater than his election margin.) Latino support even
surged from the mid-30’s to a record 51%. When asked about what all of
this means, a staffer of a declared 2020 Democratic presidential
candidate, “nothing good” came her reply.
Voters don’t turn to
Twitter to get their information and the noise there is certainly
disproportionate by comparison. So let me make this plain.
These five indicators explain why the Democrats have to some degree lost their minds in recent weeks.
These five indicators are as sound as they are sure.
Twitter hates them and mocks them but it can’t refute them.
The wall is being built. Trump is doing it.
Having given them every chance to partner with him in it, the Democrats now are forced in to a corner opposing it.
Which means they lose in 2020.
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