“May” is on the Rise…While “Shall” is Declining

I retired after 30 years of federal employment as a low-level office manager.  While I am far from being an expert on government affairs, that 30 years did teach me quite a lot about how our government works.  One of the things that always fascinated, instructed, and infuriated me was the yawning gap between the literal content of legislation passed by the Legislative branch and signed into law by our President and precisely how that legislation was actually implemented by the Departments and Agencies of the federal government.  It always was…and continues to be…one of those things that make you go “hmmm?”

 

The erosion of our Legislative branch’s influence on governing...due to the explosion we have witnessed in the Executive branch’s abuse of power and the Judicial branch’s rogue idealism projected onto law...is largely due to the fact that Congress simply does not write what it means.  They leave too much wobble in the wheel.  When legislation is passed and the directions and rules are set forth for the administrators to roll it out, the people who command and control our Departments and Agencies use that legislation as a guide.  That legislation will use both the terms shall and may.  Shall is a clear directive to the civil service contingent of our government that they should administer this legislation according to the text associated with it…as it is written.  If the Judicial branch is asked to rule on the matter of how it is administered, they will consider the use of the word shall as a clear directive to adhere to the details of the legislation.  If the legislation is clearly written, there should be little debate about how it should be performed.

 

If the word may is used in the legislation, there is a clear understanding that the government official ultimately in charge of administering the legislation…typically a patronage appointee of the Executive branch…can use their discretion while delivering the product.   That discretion will be a result of how they are told by their superiors…the people who got them their job…the Executive branch…to think and act.  This opportunity to inject personal interpretation into exactly what the legislation means leads to actions that are tinged by politics and agenda-seeking idealism; oftentimes resulting in a federal program that has little resemblance to the legislation that created it.  It allows the Executive branch to, in many cases, brazenly ignore what Congress was trying to do and twist it into a delivery vehicle for their own policy initiatives.  It is a case where the Legislative branch willfully and irresponsibly yields its authority to the Executive branch.  It is happening far too often and the Executive branch has embraced it.

 

The staffs in Congress that write the legislation are not stupid.  They are intelligent and skilled people who are very good with word composition and well understand how to write a document that says what it means.  Sometimes the lack of detail in legislation is intentional due to compromise or necessary practical flexibility designed to meet varied circumstances.  Other times, legislation is left open to interpretation because Congress is unwilling to do the heavy lifting involved in researching, debating, and writing a clear document that specifically describes their intent.  It is instead a rushed, incomplete, shallow, and arbitrary fill-in-the-blanks document intended to deliver a political message as opposed to a federal action. 

 

And then there are times when the Executive branch simply ignores the legislation content and willfully strays from its intended purpose.  In this case, the ultimate remedy lies with the Judicial branch ruling on the legality of the Executive branch action.  The problem here is that if the Executive branch is brazen enough to simply ignore the clear intent of Congress and take its own and different direction, it typically takes years for the rogue Executive actions to work their way through the court system.  By the time the irresponsible Executive action is ruled upon, the Executive branch version of the legislation has become part and parcel of our government and is practically impossible to unwind. 

 

This perversion of our nation’s government and constitution has increasingly led us to a place where autocratic executive actions by the president create results that have no clear connection to what Congress intended in the first place.  In a very real sense, it has tilted the balance of power from the Legislative branch to the Executive branch and has eroded the ability of voters to influence their government through local elections.  It has moved our nation to a point where many times, our President appears more like a King than a Chief Executive. 

 

If our nation’s government is ever going to regain its function according to the constitutional blueprint laid out by our founders, the Congress must reassert its authority and standing as an equal partner to the Executive branch.  It must use its power to write clear, distinct, and considered legislation and it must use its oversight authorities to monitor and address the incidence of Executive branch over-reach and abuse of power.  Senators and Representatives are our true connections to government because they are closer to us.  They come from our home states and our communities.  They should be our true advocates in Washington, DC because they are one of us.  They are elected by their neighbors; not by the nation.  These are the people who should be deciding how our government functions and what it addresses.  The President should simply be the person implementing those ideals.  Congress must get back to using SHALL and refrain from using MAY.  The Constitution has given them the power necessary to do their job; but if they continue to equivocate and allow the Executive branch to walk over them, this and every future President will continue to usurp their rightful place in our government.  Now…on to the happenings of today…………

 

America’s economic health is in a serious condition.  No one seems to have a good handle on inflation or interest rates, the various statistics involving employment and wages make no sense at all, our government is taxing and spending at record levels, and our financial institutions (both federal and private) seem to be focused on everything other than the mathematics that provide a solid fiscal foundation.  How do you manage your budget in times like these?  Where do you put your money in times like these?  I used to laugh when my brother-in-law told me to be “paid up, prayed up, and have a full clip”.  I’m not laughing anymore.

 

 https://www.axios.com/2023/03/14/february-consumer-price-index-inflation

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/there-will-be-no-soft-landing/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/14/inflation-isnt-going-away/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-government-spending-makes-us-poorer/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/21/the-budget-battle-book/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/homes/existing-home-sales-february

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/17/federal-employees-dont-like-paying-taxes-either/

 

When government and business and educators forget why they exist and what their functions are, trouble ensues…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/18/the-college-debt-relief-swindle/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/21/bidens-proposed-fy-2024-budget-too-woke-and-too-expensive/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/14/when-banks-and-other-institutions-try-to-change-the-world/

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/international/michael-w-chapman/nsc-spokesman-john-kirby-lgbtq-rights-are-core-part-our

 

Banks had better stick to balance sheets and stay away from social experimentation…

 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/why-woke-frisco-fed-chief-missed-silicon-valley-banks-warning-signs/

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/did-esg-help-sink-svb-progressive-climate-bank-bailout-federal-reserve-treasury-biden-insurance-9db64b0b

 

Who’s watching the watchmen???

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/17/morning-greatness-yellen-grilled-by-senators-on-bank-failures-government-response/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/janet-yellen-admits-community-banks-in-middle-america-might-not-be-protected-like-silicon-valley-bank

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/the-silicon-valley-bank-bailout-sends-exactly-the-wrong-message-and-endangers-the-economy/

 

America’s educational system continues to swirl out of control as radicals create new and insane policies, concerned parents battle to gain input into their local schools, government and administrators encourage wokeness, and fundamental principles of learning are being ignored.  The residents are in charge of the asylum.

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/17/the-new-normal-new-york-to-lower-math-and-english-proficiency-standards-due-to-poor-test-results/

 

Leave it to the Bee to bring some levity to this mess: https://babylonbee.com/news/striking-los-angeles-teachers-threaten-to-return-to-classrooms-if-demands-not-met

 

This is acceptable… https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brown-university-students-to-host-senior-chinese-official-implicated-in-hong-kong-crackdowns/

 

While this is not… https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/whos-in-charge-at-college-campuses/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/inside-stanfords-disgrace-judge-duncan-speaks.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/19/what-happened-to-stanford/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/stanford-law-school-dei-dean-placed-on-leave

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/stanfords-dei-dean-on-leave-no-students-will-be-sanctioned.php

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/19/true-stories-could-fuel-hesitancy-stanford-project-worked-to-censor-even-true-stories-on-social-media/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/17/researchers-pressured-twitter-to-treat-covid-19-facts-as-misinformation/

 

The trend of censorship is not just surging at Stanford…look around a bit…it is becoming pervasive and insidious…

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/15/banking-on-censorship-sen-kelly-becomes-latest-democrat-to-suggest-barring-opposing-views-on-social-media/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/22/the-crusade-against-malinformation-explicitly-targets-inconvenient-truths/

 

Suppression of civil dissent and protest is apparently only acceptable if the government and the liberal community find it agreeable…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/20/the-death-of-dissent/

 

https://www.newsweek.com/americans-deserve-know-who-funded-blm-riots-opinion-1787460

 

https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/03/14/black-lives-matter-movement-received-nearly-83-billion-from-corporations/

 

Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Merrick Garland lost out on his chance to seed mischief at the Supreme Court of the United States.  He now spends his time running a circus at the Department of Justice (DOJ).  When it comes to the DOJ and federal law enforcement, the ish runs downhill from there.  Instituting their system of dual justice systems (one for Republicans and one for Democrats), the Democrats continue to pursue their white whale (Trump) while ignoring the rotting corpse of the corrupt Biden Family Enterprise.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/14/a-spill-of-fbi-secrets/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/21/its-moving-its-alive-alvin-bragg-prepares-the-ultimate-frankenstein-indictment/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/20/arresting-trump-an-end-of-america-watch-party/

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/14/times-up-treasure-finally-agrees-to-turn-over-hunter-biden-transaction-reports/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/where-the-money-went-the-bidens-and-biden-associates-that-received-chinese-cash/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/21/joe-biden-guilty-of-foul-deeds/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/22/biden-nominated-a-lawyer-for-pennsylvania-u-s-attorney-who-has-a-big-conflict-of-interest/

 

Do you think this is a good time to have a President that is owned by China: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/another-red-line-breached/

 

Election mania is upon us:

 

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/12/senate-republicans-flawed-candidates-2024

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/is-ukraine-desantiss-first-big-mistake.php

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/welp-bidens-phony-baloney-right-wing-pivot-is-here

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/20/a-feared-repeat/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/21/realigning-california-would-realign-america/

 

Biden’s open border policy continues to spiral out of control:

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/55736-undocumented-migrants-encountered-us-canada-border-october-133

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/more-caught-illegally-crossing-southern-border-fiscal-2022-during

 

Climatistas and the Green Revolutionaries still advocate lunacy:

 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/15/climate-crisis-what-climate-crisis-part-one-the-evidence/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/why-wind-and-solar-will-never-work-2.php

 

A potpourri of articles that reflect our society and culture:

 

A tragic chapter in American history: https://reason.com/2023/03/21/the-great-covid-rupture/

 

Chasing the liberal dream: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/single-payer-healthcare-is-not-the-solution

 

An interesting concept: https://reason.com/2023/03/19/the-zoning-theory-of-everything/

 

The truth can sometimes be painful: https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17/woke-effectively-describes-the-lefts-insanity-and-thats-why-they-hate-when-you-say-it/

 

It is always a good time to read Victor David Hanson: https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/16/are-we-the-byzantines/

 

Karma continues to be a bitch: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/this-is-ridiculous-cnn-crew-in-san-fran-targeted-by-thieves-while-doing-story-on-rampant-crime/

 

Closing out with a couple of good tunes….enjoy:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUdQfnshJ4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VgstsVS44

 

 

“Nero” Biden Fiddles While America Burns

Joe Biden is a shell of a man that was, on his best days, an unprincipled, shallow, dull, and ethically-challenged life-long politician.  His rhetoric flows in the direction the wind is blowing and his actions are dependent on others whom he believes have his best interests at heart.  The Democrat Party chose this imbecile to run against Donald Trump because they knew they could control him.  They hid him in a basement, magnanimously permitted Trump to be himself and thus self-destruct, jury-rigged a national election, and set him up in the White House to serve as their useful idiot.  America is now suffering the consequences of those actions.

 

Joe Biden has filled our government with incompetent ideologues whose main concerns in life are various variety selections of woke notions that feature fairy tales, wishful thinking, rainbows, unicorns, and a clear detachment from reality.  Just as we realized after two years of President Trump that he would not mature into a seasoned leader and would continue his egotistical, childish, and boorish behavior…so we can now see clearly that Joe Biden is oblivious (either willfully or naturally) to the damage he has done and continues daily to inflict on this country.  He is surely a modern day Nero; fiddling away in the West Wing while America circles the drain.  The liberal Democrat Party, led by this foolish charlatan, has rendered many of the critical departments, agencies, and institutions of the federal government incapable of responsible operation at a time when the people’s dependence upon them is critically important. 

 

Russia thumbs its nose at the USA.  Its bald ambition and aggression towards its neighbors is shameless and serves as a source of pride for its tyrannical leadership.  NATO smirks at our flaccid leadership and openly ignores our global standing.  The Middle East has written us off as a player of any consequence in their affairs and Israel has clearly understood that it must learn to survive on its own wiles and strengths.  North Korea is rattling its saber towards its neighbors and China looks down its nose at us, considering us to be an inferior opponent.  The India/Pakistan and Turkey/Syria conflicts continue to simmer in their respective vacuums, while the African continent is consumed with endless ethnic strife and civil wars.  England struggles with the consequences of policies that IT instituted long ago and that WE are instituting today; their problems are simply running ahead of the curve visa vi America.  The countries of South America are left for the communists and socialists to use as their personal petri dishes while the United States simply ignores them altogether.  Canada’s only apparent concern is staying at least two woke steps in front of their southern neighbor.  Mexico continues to rent its government out to the cartels who get rich by exploiting the wide-open American marketplace.

 

In the shadow of these threats, the Biden Administration directs its Defense and State Departments to concern themselves with pronouns, multi-colored flags, climate change fables, hypocritical actions based on superficial themes of liberal concern, and a general ignorance of the very real reasons why these units of government exist in the first place.  At a time when perhaps the greatest military and geopolitical threats against America are gathering strength, the people we have placed in charge of our government are handing out “Woman of the Year” awards to people with testicles.  

 

America is being consumed by a vicious and ravenous illegal drug trade that is gushing northward across our southern border.  State governments and populations along our southern border are being overwhelmed with the financial, social, and judicial burdens of Biden Administration open-border policies and there is simply no indication whatsoever that our leaders realize…or even care…that this human misery is rampant. 

 

Federal spending is absolutely out-of-control, with no pretense by either national party that federal debt will at some point have to be reckoned with.  Joe Biden, his Administration, and the Democrat leadership in Congress are playing with your tax dollars as if they were monopoly money.  There is “no problem too small” and “no price tag too large” to escape the righteous liberal prescription of “throw more money at it”.  And while our federal departments and agencies, along with the liberal elements in our economy and culture, direct our nation’s assets towards their woke recipes for a more enlightened society…our government, our banks, and our economy in general are beginning to crack from the stress of insane fiscal policies.  There is a very real possibility that our national economy is little more than a house of cards, subject to disastrous collapse due to a gust of wind in the form of irrational panic and incompetent management.

 

Our children are not learning the basic, fundamental elements necessary to manage one’s life in a responsible and independent fashion.  They are ill-equipped to face the challenges that adulthood and financial independence will inevitably foist upon them.  Due to the revisionist histories that are being taught in our public schools, they have no realistic understanding of the forces that have shaped this planet and this nation.  They graduate high school unprepared and pursue meaningless degrees via institutions of higher learning that leave them with colossal debts, false views about humanity, an unrealistic notion about accountability, and a dangerous level of naiveté that puts their very existence in peril. 

 

While Joe Biden, his Administration clowns, his patronage-appointed lackeys, and all of the clueless voters who have helped place this pathetic collection of individuals in charge of our lives sashay around worrying about every combination of letters in the alphabet except COMMON  SENSE, our country is burning and the fire is getting hotter every day.  The one inescapable lesson that every generation ultimately comes to grips with is that there are consequences to the choices we make and the actions we take.   We are now suffering those consequences.  May God help us find a way out of this mess we have placed ourselves in.

 

This President is the perfect poster child for the team he has assembled to run this country….INTO THE GROUND: https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/12/the-march-madness-of-the-president/

When you can see the future that lies ahead for you and it is not good, why would you continue on the same path: https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/10/becoming-europe-a-prophecy-becomes-reality/

Biden’s selected Cabinet Secretaries were not selected for their experience, expertise, or intelligence.  They were selected for their politics, their gender, and their willingness to say anything…NO MATTER HOW IGNORANT…to further the liberal agenda: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/jennifer-granholm-claims-learn-china-climate-change

           

Many of our esteemed colleges have been laid low by their foolish, liberal policies.  Much of what occurs at those schools today defies belief: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/students-at-elite-law-school-behave-like-thugs/

 

And when their stupidity is exposed, they simply double down and dig the hole deeper:

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/12/no-squeeze-at-stanford-university-president-and-law-dean-issue-apology-to-judge-duncan-that-omits-one-critical-thing/#more-201954

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/13/stanford-advises-law-students-that-they-can-seek-support-from-the-dei-dean-who-supported-their-denial-of-free-speech/

 

Not content with accepting a secure southern border and being able to claim its stability as his own, Joe Biden had to dismantle the stunning success story of the Trump Administration…and for what…PURE POLITICAL SPITE: https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/13/what-are-the-odds-how-the-differences-between-trump-and-bidens-border-rhetoric-took-immigration-from-calm-to-crisis/

 

There can little doubt that the fiscal policy of the federal government trickles down to the fiscal policy of regional and local banks across the nation.  Unfortunately, the trickle down phenomenon also applies to the sophomoric woke policies of the Biden Administration liberal appointees.  When you mix banking with social consciousness with radical liberalism, you come up with a dangerous and deadly brew…with no regard for simple math.

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/13/how-the-fed-broke-silicon-valley-bank/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/failed-svb-criticized-for-hyper-focus-on-woke-dei-initiatives-lgbt-activism

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/silicon-valley-bank-bailout-is-socialism-for-the-rich/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/annnnnnd-its-a-bailout.php

 

We are witnessing the erosion of freedoms and liberties that formed the very foundation of this nation; they are under open attack.  The liberal elements in the Democrat Party (which I fear not only lead the Party, but now constitute a majority of it) have inexplicably bought into this effort to stifle dissent with liberal thought, control the information flowing to/from/and between individual citizens, and to actually reframe reality into a form they find conducive to their agenda.  

 

https://www.racket.news/p/the-democrats-disastrous-miscalculation

 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/the-media-ignore-democrats-in-congress-stepping-on-freedom-of-speech/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/11/so-much-for-transparency/

 

It is truly a sad time when satire comes so very close to reality: https://babylonbee.com/news/Media-warns-that-anyone-watching-unedited-jan-6-footage-could-arrive-at-unapproved-conclusion

 

Perhaps you are thinking…we will simply turn out the Democrats and put the Republicans back in charge of the government.  Don’t forget that it takes superior candidates to win elections: https://www.axios.com/2023/03/12/senate-republicans-flawed-candidates-2024

 

The Worst in Him Brought Out the Worst in Them

If history is written in an unbiased fashion (and that depends on who is writing it), Donald Trump will have to go down as one of the most effective and successful presidents we have ever had.  Russia took Crimea under the Obama Administration and Russia is trying to take Ukraine under the Biden Administration.  In between and under the Trump Administration, generally speaking, the world was at peace.  Russia and North Korea were boxed in.  The terrorist states in the Middle East were being isolated and turned upon by their neighbors.  The Abraham Accords were accomplished and seemed to hold tremendous promise for the future.  Our European allies did not particularly like Trump, but they were moving towards a strengthened and more robust NATO.  The USA was energy independent, people were working, feeling good about their jobs and their prospects, and our southern border was well under control.  Quite simply, there were a lot of good things accomplished and going on under President Donald Trump.

 

Unfortunately, Donald Trump never matured and grew in office.  He was elected in large part due to his unorthodox and outsider approach to politics and that served him well in many pursuits; but as time passed, his childish ways and egotistical bluster became very tiring.  Even worse, the hatred held for him by the Democrat Party continued to fester and he seemed to relish feeding their beast.  I will always believe that Donald Trump was viewed by many Democrats as the opportunity to get even with the Republicans for their treatment of Bill Clinton.  Unfortunately, once that debt was settled, they kept digging.  They have refused to put the shovel down.   The worst in Donald Trump has brought out the worst in the Democrat Party.   In my opinion, it has also brought out the worst in many Republicans. 

 

Hatred and bitterness breeds more hatred and bitterness.  And once that cycle is well under way, it is extremely difficult to wind it down.  It is nigh on impossible to end it without incurring some irreparable damage along the way.  We are taking on that damage as a nation today.  For the sake of our country, the best thing for all involved is for Donald Trump and Joe Biden to BOTH ride off into the sunset and enjoy what golden years might remain for them.  Like-minded folks will polish up the accomplishments of both and continue to criticize the many faults found in both.  But there can be little doubt that it is in America’s interest to put the current chapter of partisan political poison in the rear view mirror with this next election cycle and for both national parties to seek new leadership and a new, more responsible, perhaps even civil approach to governing.

 

Moving on…….  The continuing revelations from the “Twitter Files” are demonstrating to the American people how power and ambition have thoroughly corrupted our government and given rogue ideologues, politicians, and judges the opportunities to trample on our constitutional rights and liberties.  I don’t care what your political affiliation is…if you are not infuriated by the Deep State’s efforts to control media discourse through censorship and misinformation, then you are undoubtedly partisan beyond redemption.  If this rampant and cancerous abuse of power is not remedied, our nation will never be the same and the loss of innocence it will entail will leave us as but a shadow of the ideals penned by our founders.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/notes-on-the-twitter-files-18.php

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3883931-twitter-discloses-another-possible-government-censorship-effort/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/10/twitter-files-hearing-weaponization-matt-taibbi-democrats-elon/\

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/notes-on-the-twitter-files-19.php

One of the areas where this corruption worked its menace was in the way our nation, our government, our culture, and our society reacted to the covid pandemic.  Once again, if history is fair and honest, there should be a lot of people receiving apologies and a lot of people being shamed by the pure hypocrisy, power-tripping autocracy, and plain stupid actions taken under the guise of public safety.   I will always believe that those who will pay the greatest price of all are our children through their loss of education and natural socialization.  That loss can never be recovered.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/why-did-the-scientists-deceive-everyone-about-covid-19

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the-fauci-commission.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/07/why-the-left-is-pro-mask/

 

The events of January 6, 2021 at our nation’s Capitol blighted our country.  The refusal of Donald Trump to choose the path of higher wisdom and concede defeat…even though there were clearly irregularities, illegalities, and inexcusable high jinks involved in his loss…resulted in a riot that again demonstrated how his worst could bring out the worst in his others.  Speaker Pelosi allowed her hatred for Trump to override her good judgment by removing legitimate Republican representation on the January 6 Congressional Committee and thus rendering it a partisan circus.  Tucker Carlson of Fox News is now exposing that circus through his broadcast of heretofore unseen tapes of the unrest.  It is fair to say that Carlson’s presentation is as much of a circus as was the Jan 6 hearings; but BOTH circuses could have been prevented by Pelosi. A fair and balanced bipartisan approach to examining the details of that day would have served our government well; but that did not and will not now occur.  The water in the well has been poisoned.

 

A Congressional Democrat panel with two token RINOs, who also happened to be avowed Trump-haters…one a lame duck and the other a lame brain…were aided by the Deep State, high tech, and the liberal mainstream media in weaving a well-crafted and deceptive version of that day’s events for the American public.  A relatively-small portion of the protesting crowd behaved in an irresponsible and illegal fashion, staining the entire event for those who participated peacefully and in good faith.  The orchestrated lie and the judicial over-reach that followed are shameful episodes.  The Democrat-sponsored, over-the-top orchestration of this event and the hyperbole that surrounded it is disgusting.  The fact that our Congress botched their one chance to address it in a civil, effective, and bipartisan fashion is inexcusable.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/09/a-handy-january-6-fact-sheet/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/07/secret-surveillance-video-dismantles-january-6-narrative/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/tucker-carlsons-expose-blew-a-rather-large-hole-in-dems-deadly-insurrection-story.php

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/08/tucker-carlson-describes-the-capitol-riot-as-mostly-peaceful-chaos-is-he-wrong/

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/0323/shapiro030923.php

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/09/we-wouldnt-need-tucker-carlson-if-the-jan-6-committee-hadnt-put-on-a-partisan-show-trial/

 

A strong argument can be made that the biggest victims of the January 6 event were the peaceful protestors who were targeted by the Department of Justice and hammered with judicial indignation.  Compare the treatment of these folks with the violent protestors who hit the streets following the George Floyd incident and the Black Lives Matter rallies.  There is a double standard of justice in this nation and it does not only measure out on a “rich or poor” basis.  It is also reflected in a “liberal or conservative” basis.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/an-egregious-denial-of-due-process-for-jan-6-protesters/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/holdsome-jan-6-defendants-seek-trial-delays-following-fox-airing-capitol

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/08/did-the-qanon-shaman-get-the-shaft-new-evidence-raises-new-questions-on-the-chansley-case/

 

I will nominate another candidate for the Trump/Biden ride into the sunset; that would be Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  McConnell is my home state’s senior Senator and even though I have oftentimes been critical of his actions, I have steadfastly defended his accomplishments during the Trump Administration of both placing conservative judges on the bench and keeping Merrick Garland off of it.  The beneficial value of these actions to our nation is incalculable and will last for generations to come.  But it time to turn over Senate leadership to new hands:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/08/dear-mitch-mcconnell-you-were-not-elected-to-do-the-bidding-of-chuck-schumer-and-cnn/

 

I will continue to feature a focus in my writings on national education; it might be the single, most important issue of the day.  Consider these stories…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/04/teacher-pay-in-perspective/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/08/florida-continues-to-fight-federal-overreach-in-education/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/desantis-is-putting-the-public-back-in-public-universities/

 

Donald Trump’s booming national economy was derailed by the covid epidemic.  Standing for re-election, he had addressed the fiscal emergencies hurled upon us by the plague and we were poised to pick up where we had left off…pre-pandemic.  President Joe Biden has destroyed all of that.  His liberal fiscal madness of tax and spend has ruined our national economic health and is plunging our country into a deep fiscal hole.  The most alarming aspect of his monetary clown show is the fact that he and his Administration are oblivious to the detrimental effects his policies are wreaking upon the citizenry.  His recently-proposed federal budget is a perfect example of his Alice in Wonderland approach to federal spending.  If you have any doubts whatsoever about the Democrat Party’s fiscal policy, simply examine Biden’s budget proposal.  It is all right there for your consideration.  Here is an interesting mental exercise: What if the House had remained in Democrat hands…and this budget would have been approved…lock, stock, and barrel???? 

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/10/bidens-budget-breakdown-how-the-big-government-binge-overtaxes-overspends-and-overborrows/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/03/bidens-budget-denies-reality/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-taxes-and-more-spending-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-president-bidens-newest-budget

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/bidens-budget-proposal-estimates-debt-will-hit-507-trillion-10

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/09/bidens-budget-will-raise-taxes-without-addressing-the-federal-governments-spending-problem/

 

File this away in the “you cannot make this stuff up” category: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democrats-are-reduced-to-taxing-income-that-doesnt-exist/

 

Here are a few articles regarding the continuing follies of the Biden Administration.  It is so sad to acknowledge that there are nearly two more years of this foolishness to come.

 

Another shining example of Biden-nominated incompetents: https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/07/it-had-to-be-su/

 

Back to that tax and spend thing….THIS is how the Democrats want to spend your increased taxes: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/our-state-department-at-work.php

 

With Biden and the Democrats, everything is about race.  But that’s just talk.  What does the record show about his walk: https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/07/former-segregationist-bestie-joe-biden-has-thoughts-on-race-relations/

 

Why should the Director of National Intelligence be worrying about climate change anyway: https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/cnsnewscom-staff/dnis-annual-threat-assessment-mentions-climate-26-times

 

And while the liberal climatistas pursue their fantasies, our energy industry is being dismantled: https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/09/renewables-arent-renewable/

 

You know…Biden will probably end up appointing this guy to some federal position of power and influence.  He would fit right in: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/03/08/who-knew-ken-burns-is-an-idiot-n535583

 

We get the government we deserve.  Elections matter.  Every…single…vote…counts.  The consequences of election 2020 have thrown our nation into turmoil.  The consequences of election 2022 have somewhat mitigated that turmoil.  Where do we go from here?

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/06/life-among-the-ruins/

 

https://reason.com/2023/03/05/to-fix-policing-punish-bad-cops/

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-3-9-update-on-california-homelessness

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/08/the-price-of-eliminating-consequences/