FOX NEWS FIRST: Trump mulls 'right' to declare emergency at border; Questions surround missing...

You are correct. It is fundamentally the same strategy that we complained of when President Obama used "his pen and his phone". No. President Obama didn't invent it. Virtually every President has been "tempted" or actually attempted to circumvent Congress (Woodrow Wilson institutionalized the concept) but, as my mother oft reminded me, just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right...

Dangerous precedents are being set or contemplated by our elected politician's at break neck pace. They do not stop to think about what happens when "we're not the one in the driver's seat."

_Senate rule changes to eliminate the need for overwhelming consensus in favor of simple majority
_Failure to pass budgets and instead relying on continuing resolutions
_Impeachment as recall
_Failure to hold confirmation hearings because, its "too close" to the election, when it clearly was not.
_Jurisdictions choosing to not enforce the law of the land
_local elections granting voting rights to non-citizens
_The senate going beyond its advise and consent role.
_The growth of executive power at the expense of the legislative branch's power
_Weaponized congressional investigations

I truly believe this great experiment is starting to unravel; and it is not the fault of the elected officials. We tolerate it as long as in the short term, it fits our agenda. Never thinking of the long term consequences.

If it's an emergency, it's an emergency; if he says he'll declare an emergency as a form of ultimatum, it's clearly not an emergency. He's simply trampling the Constitution here.