Declaring an emergency to get the wall built: a supremely bad idea

Talk about a scenario in which no one comes off looking good.

Take the Very Stable Genius's walkout from his meeting with Dem leaders yesterday.  As an expression of exasperation over the immediate impasse, it was a well-calibrated move. Pelosi, Schumer et al have indeed been behaving like you-know-whats about the whole thing. They've voted for, and spoken about, basically what's being asked for in the past. They're digging in their heels at the present moment for purely political purposes. The "wall" (a symbolic stand-in for the totality of measures needed to deal effectively with illegal entry into the United States) is, above all other issues, the rallying cause for the VSG's base. The energizing effect of getting it done on that base would shift momentum in entirely the wrong direction in the Dem view of the matter.

But step back for a little wider context and you see that Trump's boneheaded negotiating style was so off-putting to the Dems that it was a major factor in their decision to go the route they've gone.

Then there are Congressional Republicans, who have been, shall we say, less than resolute over the years on the issue. Is there a video somewhere of a Pub House or Senate member stating as forthrightly as Chuck Schumer did in 2009 that "plain and simple, illegal immigration is wrong"?

So now the declaration-of-a-state-of-emergency ploy is on the table.

And Lindsey All-Over-The-Map Graham thinks it would be okay if it becomes "necessary."

Has he, or anyone else who would endorse such a move considered the all-too-real possibility that within the next four years a Dem president could use the precedent set to implement the Green New Deal? To those who say, "Go for it," I ask, do you want to be responsible for the federal government making everybody take solar-powered buses and light rail to get everywhere?

And such a move might well not even result in a wall. If courts shot it down, the VSG would have a major political defeat on his hands.

He ought to back away from even faint speculation about it, but, because the VSG is who he is, that's not likely to happen.