HA-ha!
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner (R-Spineless) spent a lot of time saying that der Hairmeister shouldn't declare a national emergency, claiming that Congressional oversight was needed. That was a month ago. Of course, yesterday Gardner was nowhere to be found on the list of senators voting down the emergency declaration. This is vintage Gardner; he always claims to be undecided, or that he stands for some decent position, and then when the vote comes, his fake spine crumples and he votes with his hard-right compatriots.
Well, it seems the folks left over at the Denver Post have finally caught on. (No comment needed on just how long it took them.) They have taken the very unusual step of retracting their 2014 endorsement, calling it "a mistake".
Moreover, they call Gardner's failure to protect the duties of the Senate on Tuesday as "a failure of leadership", and describe Gardener thusly:
He has become precisely what we said in our endorsement he would not be: “a political time-server interested only in professional security.”
I don't want to take away all of the Post's thunder, so I'll leave with just this one more bit:
This is a bogus emergency that takes executive over-reach to an extreme not seen even under President Barack Obama. Trump’s declaration is an abuse of his power, a direct overturning of Congress’ deliberate decision to pass a federal budget without funding for a wall.
Put simply this is a constitutional crisis and one of Colorado’s two senators has failed the test.