Because people in their 80's are much more prone to cognitive dysfunction, cancer, and other maladies associated with old age.  The human life span is about 82, give or take.  And the job of POTUS, if properly done requires a great deal of energy.  Most young occupants of the White House go gray in their first term.

I think Becky was asking why you’d be for Sanders, age notwithstanding.

My own car is my responsibility, and I will pay for the repairs.  I still think the right blew it on AOC.  She's a freshman Congresscritter, usually not very powerful or influential.  But because of all the attention piled onto her by the right she is now very influential and fairly powerful.  Had the right just ignored her she would be able to do little or influence little, and might no t have even won a second term.  I bet she has no difficulty winning reelection now.

Ok Mikey. Totally ignore my post about the MSMs push of AOC as the next Barack. Don’t be so blind.

Trump needed to act very fast. 2020 is almost on top of us.

I totally agree. If the Dems succeed in slow walking this achievement so it doesn’t get done, Trump’s base will be demoralized, which of course is the left’s entire strategy.

Did you check to see if there was fluid in the radiator?

He should also check the blinker fluid level while he’s at it.

I’ve been thinking about this all weekend. It seems to me there are several directions this could take, but in general I am not thrilled with the NE.

I wonder if POTUS should have let the re-shutdown happen. He is best at trolling the left, as we saw at the SOTU where he garnered approval by 82% of independents polled simply by extolling the virtues and strengths of America and the importance of preserving liberty from being subsumed by socialism.

That 82% is staggering, really. But I think he loses a bunch of them with this. Not that he drove a stake in the hearts of the socialist perpetrators at the SOTU, but it was a grave wound. The news cycle quickly is healing it, even with AOC and her dumpkof blathering.

Even compromise, and beginning to build barriers in the weakest areas, letting falling crime and safer communities speak for the barriers’ success, might have been a better strategy.

Becky, I’ve thought about it too, and I tend to disagree. (Hey, there’s a first for everything!)

HOW Trump gets the wall done is of little importance to many people. NE, EO, or anything else is really too much inside baseball for most people to get too excited about.

ACTUALLY getting something done (something that Congress has promised since at least 1981 but never had the stones to mean it) will matter to the base and to independents alike.

I’ve been stunned to look at the “independents” in polls about the border, the wall, socialism, infanticide, Medicare for all and other hot issues of the day. The independent voter is really, really close to the conservative side of issue, and not the liberal side. That gives me great hope.

Probably not.  His political career is over, and she's a rug muncher, like Hillary (probably with Hillary) anyway.  She's probably after Valerie Jarrett, or Michelle Obama at this point.

Thanks for ruining breakfast asshole.

But you’re probably right.

So I think I have the wrong of this. The Obaminator did indeed declare a bunch of emergencies.  What I can’t find is where he appropriated finds absent the consent of Congress or despite the lack of it.

A good for instance. Super Callous Fragile Ego Extrbragadocius called troops to the southern border.  Personally I think it a waste of the Army’s efforts, but I would never deny his right to do this as POTUS, he is commander in Chief.

But now he’s declaring his emergency to raid the govco piggy bank.  And that lands straight into separation of powers.  And you’d better pray to your fuzzy white god that he doesn’t get away with it.  Because if he does most presidents will be able to do anything they want.  Our government was set up to avoid giving any one person too much power, and the Founders were wise in so doing.

You don’t understand the appropriation process. Congress doesn’t dictate the number of #2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencils the Department of Indispensable Kitchenware (DIK) is allowed to purchase. Congress doesn’t care how the department allocates is funds to office supplies or kitchenware. It just finds the Deprtment, to be spent as the Secretary and Executive branch sees fit.

Congress takes slightly greater interest if the Navy wants to roll out a new ship, but in reality the Pentagon has a lot of leeway in its budget. And all these departments fall under the Executive Branch. So while the Executive doesn’t have unlimited authority to move money around between departments, there is nevertheless authority to spend money they has been authorized at the departmental level.