Changing his vote from the public stance he took last month, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), center, voted to support President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to pay for his border wall. “Gradually and then suddenly.”That famous exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” comes to mind when contemplating the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Republican Party. The party of fiscal conservatism excused a profligate president who added $2 trillion in debt and counting. The Republican Party as we once knew it — as a party of limited government — officially ended on March 14. Only 13 Republicans in the House and 12 in the Senate dared to block this flagrant assault on the Constitution.

Source: Washington Post March 17, 2019 16:52 UTC