Article snippet: This year, when people ask me, Charlie, what are you giving up for Lent? My answer has to be that I’m giving up the hope that any elected government leaders other than President Trump, are willing to stand up for the beliefs and intentions of a majority of Americans. This past week, 12 Republican Senators (does that number sound at all familiar in the context of Lent?) joined all of their Democratic colleagues in voting 59-41 in support of a Bill that declared as unconstitutional the President’s National Emergency Declaration to fund a border wall. In the end, they all forsook him and fled. It is very important to remember that all of this has come to a head over the past five months because the President did not place his own Party in the position of having to shut the government down while they controlled both Houses of Congress. For two years the President had a majority in the House and in the Senate and tried to rely on them to cooperate in getting our border secured. They did what is in their nature to do. They did nothing. It is worth presenting a roll call of those GOP Senators who voted against the President. To borrow from the all-time movie classic, Casablanca, let’s round up the usual suspects: Mitt Romney (UT), Susan Collins (ME), Marco Rubio (FL), Pat Toomey (PA), Roger Wicker (MS), Lamar Alexander (TN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Roy Blount (MO), Jerry Moran (KS), Mike Lee (UT), Rob Portman (OH)… …and Rand Paul (KY) whose libertarian ideals I genera... Link to the full article to read more