{"id":46427,"date":"2019-01-10T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46427"},"modified":"2019-01-09T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:03:57","slug":"a-timely-reminder-about-the-dangers-of-expanding-government-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/10\/a-timely-reminder-about-the-dangers-of-expanding-government-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A timely reminder about the dangers of expanding government power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Coyote Blog<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/coyoteblog.com\/coyote_blog\/2019\/01\/the-proposed-emergency-decree-to-build-the-wall-is-an-awful-precedent.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Meyer<\/a> points out to the Republicans that if it was bad during the last presidency, it&#8217;s just as bad during this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Republicans:<\/p>\n<p>The last thing we need now is even more expansion of executive power. I remember when, gosh it was like only two or three years ago, you Republicans were (rightly) bemoaning Obama&#8217;s executive actions as unconstitutional expansions of Presidential power. You argued, again rightly, that just because Congress did not pass the President&#8217;s cherished agenda items, that did not give the President some sort of right to do an end-around Congress.<\/p>\n<p>But now, I hear many Republicans making exactly the same arguments on the wall that Obama made during his Presidency, with the added distasteful element of a proposed declaration of emergency to allow the army to go build the wall.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I can pretty much guarantee you that if Trump uses this emergency declaration dodge (and maybe even if he doesn&#8217;t now that Republicans have helped to normalize the idea), the next Democratic President is going to use the same dodge. I can just see President Warren declaring a state of emergency to have the army build windmills or worse. In fact, if Trump declares a state of emergency on a hot-button Republican issue, Democratic partisans are going to DEMAND that their President do the same, if for no reason other than tribal tit for tat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Coyote Blog, Warren Meyer points out to the Republicans that if it was bad during the last presidency, it&#8217;s just as bad during this one: Dear Republicans: The last thing we need now is even more expansion of executive power. I remember when, gosh it was like only two or three years ago, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,53,13],"tags":[316,698,1037,554,553],"class_list":["post-46427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-congress","tag-donaldtrump","tag-immigration","tag-senate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46428,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46427\/revisions\/46428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}