Hearing the Falconer #5 ~ 13-March-2019 ~ Declaring a National Emergency

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world....
from The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, 1919

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface.
The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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13-March-2019: Declaring a National Emergency
Declaring a National Emergency
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Too wrong.

Declaring a national emergency to take money for a purpose that Congress has not agreed to fund at the level the president wants is an unconstitutional and dangerous precedent.

A president should argue for the policies and funding he or she wants.
Then the president should take whatever money Congress allocates and make the best of it.

If presidents of either party can just ignore Congress and do whatever they want we are no longer following our Constitutional system of checks and balances and we are heading down a very dangerous road indeed.

The moderate position on this issue is to just follow the Constitution. We need the will of the president, ANY president, to be checked by the will of Congress.

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Books for Indpendent Thinkers

Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today

The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It

Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics

The Deliberate Moderate: Influencing From the Middle