I agree with this, but I would still have voted yes in his shoes. https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1106273826147614723 …
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4. So Republicans are stuck: they have no options for bipartisan action that outlasts Trump's term. Democrats want to build a record that this is an abuse of power, but they don't want to actually limit the power to rule out future abuses.
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5. This goes well beyond this issue, or this particular power. It's chronic in questions over the proper role & functions of the branches of the federal government. The two parties simply don't even agree anymore on what our system of government *is*.
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6. Should Congress get to decide what the federal government spends money on? Should executive agencies make law? Should presidents control federal law enforcement and intelligence? If we don't even agree on these fundamental rules, of course we can't defend them together.
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Meditate on this 2011 veto by Mark Sanford over a certificate of need battle. It parallels Sasse’s reasoning. https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/2878 …
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Which is why if you're going to run on border security, and not pass anything on border security, you let Trump do it if the Democrats are not going to reform the NEA.
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he knows, sometimes I fear he is what would manifest if a raving lunatic had access to the internet would be like if they could pontificate the lunacy... most with the affliction have to do the pontificating in subway stations or street corners or things of that ilk.
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If this were true as an absolute, the Democratic Party would not be the party that cuts the deficit, and the Republican Party the party that explodes the deficit.
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Sasse didn’t say it this well.
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