In ways big and small, Congress is taking back power from President Donald Trump on national securit

Even the republican-controlled Congress knows what an idiot they have pretending to be president, and realize they have to do everything in their power to prevent the incompetent, juvenile moron from putting America at risk.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/01/politics/congress-trump-war-power/index.html

"From Russia to the Pentagon budget, Republicans in Congress are proposing new checks to curb the White House's power and in some cases simply ignoring the Trump administration's desires on national security and foreign policy."

""I think it's sinking in, especially with Republican members of Congress, that they are not getting the kind of adult leadership out of the White house that would allow you to give deference to the White House," said Mieke Eoyang, a national security analyst at Third Way and former congressional aide. "So you see Congress stepping up to take a much more aggressive role on national security for the first time in a very long time.""

 

I don't have a lot of faith in the GOP doing the right thing here, Trump's mental issues and all.

 

This would have been a good thing anyway, Congress has been very lazy/cowardly about protecting and asserting its own constitutional powers for a long time. Trump makes this process desperately urgent. However badly Congress mangles this stuff, it is in safer hands.

 

I stopped reading here:

"I'm cautiously optimistic that Congress is looking to assert some structure on a chaotic national security process ... but at the moment these don't yet strike me as significant checks -- yet," said Loren DeJonge Schulman, a defense analyst at the Center for a New American Security. "I'll be willing to say Congress is offering a real check to this administration when it refuses to fund one of its initiatives, or halts war funding until a clear strategy is provided."

There were also similar efforts to curb President Barack Obama's national security powers, including blocking the closure of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay and rolling back surveillance authorities.

 

I'm surprised you even read it at all. I figured you for the automatic, "but, but, but, Obama..." response.

So how did you feel about this part that came before the part where you stopped reading?

""I think it's sinking in, especially with Republican members of Congress, that they are not getting the kind of adult leadership out of the White house that would allow you to give deference to the White House," said Mieke Eoyang, a national security analyst at Third Way and former congressional aide. "So you see Congress stepping up to take a much more aggressive role on national security for the first time in a very long time.""

 

They had to have known from the get-go that this White House was going to be historically inept and self-serving. This GOP led Congress is also inept at governing but they have the self preservation mechanism kicking in as they are also totally self-serving and they want some of the nation left at the end of this fiasco in order to secure their cushy $175,000 a year jobs.

 

Can you give reputable source on this. CNN is worse than salon now.

 

Yep. They were all hoping that they could just work around the clown for 4 years, and then put it all behind them and continue on with their profession while the idiot-in-chief moved on to getting a gig emceeing the gong show.

 

A revival of The Gong Show is exactly where the buffoon belongs.

 

Do you meant like breitbart, inforwars, gateway pundit...

 

LMAO, nailed it! The GOP does not have the guts to represent their supposed values and they had better step up for country.

 

Pres.Trump is doing a tremendous job with national security, unlike Obama, who did nothing as Russia mounted cyber attack efforts against us, and then VIOLATED FISA LAWS repeatedly...

 

Proof? He is sell out to Russia.......he is a national security risk & danger.

 

The only mental issues I see is coming from the left.

 

One original sentence, 5 ad hom attacks against the POTUS.

Lefties
Gonna
Leftie

 

Actually, you are wrong. They are all valid.

 

You mean like this?




of this?

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal


https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/...s-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html


Like that?


Pres. Trump has never done anything remotely close to either...

 

Mieke Eoyang has thrown up in an F-15, eaten dinner at an Applebee's with her old boss, Senator Ted Kennedy, and makes a mean brisket.



It's rumored that the ole letcher Ted hired her for his own reasons. But to try to pass her off as an authority on the mainstream of Mainstream Congressional GOP thought? Hmmm!

Poland Prepares ‘Absolutely Huge’ Welcome for Trump
Nation plans an elaborate reception for president as he gives a major speech in Warsaw this week.

WARSAW—Like many of his fellow Polish pro-government lawmakers, Dominik Tarczynski is sending a busload of constituents to Warsaw on Thursday to cheer for President Donald Trump. The buses are being provided by a foundation close to the governing party.

“It’s going to be huge—absolutely huge,” Mr. Tarczynski said of the coming welcome for Mr. Trump. “They just love him, the people in Poland—they just really love him.”

Poland is working to put on a hero’s welcome for Mr. Trump as he prepares to give a major speech to thousands of Poles in a Warsaw square. Behind that effort is a recognition across the continent that Mr. Trump has the potential to change the balance of power in Europe.

President Barack Obama formed a close bond with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and backed her liberal worldview, her acceptance of immigrants, and her support for a deeply integrated European Union. Now it is nationalist governments such as Poland’s that hope Mr. Trump will see them as ideological kindred spirits and back their push to loosen the European Union and rebalance it away from Berlin.

“There’s this new success—Trump’s visit,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, said at a party congress over the weekend. Tweaking European officials who are nervous that Mr. Trump’s visit could deepen the divide on the continent, Mr. Kaczynski went on: “They’re envious of it!”

Poland, where the conservative Law and Justice government took over in 2015, is locked in an escalating feud with the EU’s executive body in Brussels and with Western European capitals. The European Commission has said the government’s changes to the Polish judicial system, including appointing its own judges to the Constitutional Court, undermine the rule of law.

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Poland was rejecting European democratic principles and treating the bloc like “a supermarket,” implying it is taking advantage of the EU without following all of its norms.

German politicians often slam Poland for failing to take in refugees and for reducing press freedoms.

In Mr. Trump, some Polish politicians and commentators see a leader who has campaigned against accepting refugees and criticized the EU and Germany’s influence in the bloc.

“Regarding refugees, the Polish government has the same position as Americans—we want strict restrictions on refugees,” said Krzysztof Mróz, a Law and Justice lawmaker who plans to dispatch two buses full of Trump fans—98 people—from his district at 2 a.m. on Thursday morning for the 300-mile drive to Warsaw.



A protest camp set up outside Poland’s Supreme Court in Warsaw displayed posters about President Trump’s imminent visit. PHOTO: CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In lobbying for Mr. Trump’s visit in recent months, Polish officials made a promise of a positive reception for the president part of their pitch. Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said in an interview Wednesday with The Wall Street Journal that he told Mr. Trump, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels in May: “Please visit us, your soldiers are already here, you can follow, and you can visit a country which is friendly.”

Mr. Trump responded, according to Mr. Waszczykowski, that “Polish Americans helped him win” the presidential election.

“I said, ‘Well, we can help you once again... if you visit us and cooperate with us,’” Mr. Waszczykowski recalled.

In Western Europe, some officials worry that Mr. Trump will fan the flames of anti-immigrant, anti-European Union sentiment just like he endorsed Brexit ahead of the British referendum on leaving the EU last summer.

Go Trump!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/poland-prepares-absolutely-huge-welcome-for-trump-1499247006

 

I just hope that enough of the GOP will wake up and realize that the Tweeting DildonTurd is out to circumvent the Constituion and find a legal way to flesh that Turd if out the WH.