The Pathetic Paralysis of American Leadership

Joe Biden, the Democrat Party, and their cabal of liberal elite power and influence, combined with a fawning mainstream media, have sole ownership of the southern border crisis our nation is now thoroughly involved in.  Joe Biden came in to the office of the presidency with a stable southern border, an improving immigration environment, and with the prospects of congressional compromise on immigration policy a far more realistic possibility.  Out of pure spite, malice, arrogance, conceit, and stupidity…he threw everything that was working well with immigration policy out the door and began what can only be described as an “open border” policy. 

 

America is just beginning to realize the harmful effects of this foolish endeavor.  The sad fact is that in a little over two years, the Biden Administration has utterly devastated U.S. southern border integrity and it will be generations before the disastrous impact of these ill-advised actions will be mitigated.  This genie will not be going back into the bottle anytime soon.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/05/getting-real-on-the-border/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-predictably-disastrous-consequences-of-halfhearted-immigration-enforcement/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/surrender.php

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-illegal-immigrants-surge-across-border-as-trump-era-rule-ends

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/11/importing-problems/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/12/title-42-was-never-going-to-fix-illegal-immigration/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-best-way-to-get-order-at-the-border-is-to-close-it-once-and-for-all

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-signs-strongest-anti-illegal-immigration-bills-into-law-as-biden-border-crisis-worsens

 

The blind loyalty demonstrated by the mainstream media to the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party has emboldened them to run our government with a level of audacity that is breathtaking.  They do illogical, impractical, downright ignorant things with no fear of incrimination or shame.  They have abdicated any responsibility to constitutional responsibility and surrendered the operation of our nation’s business to a group of clueless ideologues.

 

In a town that has not known any semblance of reason pertaining to federal budget sanity for at least a couple of decades, this outfit has thrown any pretense of fiscal accountability to the four winds.  Their “tax and spend” philosophy has wrecked a national economy that was poised for a robust post-pandemic recovery that would have lifted all citizens up and down the income spectrum.  With no fear of being exposed for the financial hacks that they are, they simply insist that throwing more money out the door is the solution to all things.  As Led Zeppelin once said…they honestly believe they can buy the stairway to heaven.

 

This is the driving force behind their approach to the federal debt limit debate.  Do the Republicans in the Congress have the fortitude to withstand the avalanche of scorn heaped upon them by the mainstream media and cling to a meager position of token spending cuts and wasteful program terminations?   They talk a good game, but their performance has been sorely lacking.  That question is open for debate.

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/consumer-prices-49-year-ago-increases-under-biden-remain-more-three-times-higher-under-trump

 

 https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/the-daily-chart-the-falling-wages-of-bidenomics.php

 

https://reason.com/2023/05/10/inflation-ticks-higher-in-april-as-rents-keep-rising/

 

https://reason.com/2023/05/09/biden-falsely-bragged-about-lowing-the-budget-deficit-now-it-is-predictably-rising-again/

 

There is no excuse for this debt ceiling debate to be occurring.  The House has passed a solution and the Senate should approve it and pass it on to the President.  If he chooses to veto the bill, let him and Democrats deal with the fallout. 

 

https://reason.com/2023/05/11/the-debt-ceiling-fight-is-a-reminder-of-americas-dire-fiscal-future/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/house-republicans-pass-debt-ceiling-bill-after-mccarthy-concessions/

 

Read the House bill for yourself.  Does this sound unreasonable to you? It is a sad commentary on our current state of government that the opposition party to the liberal Democrats can only agree on something this weak and insubstantial.  Keep in mind that this is an opening gambit…a beginning bargaining position.  Both parties have surrendered to their irresistible addiction of federal spending and government bloat:  https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LSGA_xml.pdf

 

Joe Biden has filled our government with unelected, clueless, irresponsible, incompetents that would be comical in the whole if they were not running our country.  Not only are they idiots; they are also crooks.  If you vote Democrat…this is what you get…

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/unelected-biden-bureaucrats-threatening-financial-stability

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/is-there-an-honest-government-agency.php

 

Consider some of their ruinous and devastating policy initiatives…

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/bidens-latest-effort-to-make-everything-you-need-more-expensive

 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/electric-vehicles-and-carbon-emissions

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/net-zero-by-2050-the-most-expensive-federal-program-ever

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/brutal-new-research-shows-how-the-government-ruined-higher-education

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/the-receipts-for-weingartens-lies.php

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/28/washingtons-assault-weapons-ban-will-be-as-impotent-as-most-gun-laws/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/level-the-playing-field-for-independent-media

 

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Joe Biden and the Democrat Party are living under the illusion of absolute power and their corruption is deep and wide…

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/10/bidens-made-millions-exchanging-political-favors-for-foreign-money-then-tried-to-cover-it-up-oversight-report/

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/bank-records-dont-lie-house-oversight-cmte-says-reporting-biden-family-got-millions-foreign

 

https://mrctv.org/blog/69-voters-call-biden-influence-peddling-charges-serious-scandal-abc-cbs-nbc-give-0-seconds

 

https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/liberal-media-circles-the-wagons-around-bidens-corruption/

 

Will the Republican Party, in November of 2024, once again bring a knife to an election gunfight?  Will they once again bitch and whine about election irregularities, while closing the barn door after all of the horses have escaped?  Election reforms must be in place BEFORE the election!

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/17/how-incompetent-election-administration-suppressed-midterm-voters-in-harris-county-texas/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/27/dominion-vs-russian-collusion-and-disinformation/

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/red-states-implementing-audits-election-integrity-watchdog-warns-they-may

 

The Democrat Party’s hold on our nation’s government must be broken.  If it continues, our country will be irreparably damaged and its true essence will be placed in peril.  American voters had best be sober, clear-eyed, unemotional, and very thoughtful about their upcoming election decisions.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/10/dont-be-surprised-if-joe-biden-is-not-the-democrats-2024-nominee/

 

https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-very-invisible-republican-primary/

 

Consider a new direction…a new alternative.  Think about one not without risks; but one with the promise of new hopes and initiatives.   A real departure from what we have known for the last several administrations from both national parties.  Read the first paragraph of the following article closely and then read all five parts of this series.  Doesn’t this make sense to you?

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/deflorida-blueprint-desantis-finds-his-foreign-policy

 

 

Why DeSantis?

The Democrats have their Biden Problem and appear to have few, if any, solutions to it.  They have chosen that hill to, hopefully, perish upon.  The Republicans have their Trump Problem and have several good solutions to it.  The meaningful question is whether or not they will choose any of them or insist on rolling the dice with Trump.  Now if you are a rabid MAGA-Trump Republican, I completely understand why you want to support and vote once again for Trump.  He has been unfairly hounded and persecuted by the mainstream media for over six years now.  He has lived daily with the double-standards of liberal hypocrisy and has endured the conceited scorn of Republicans In Name Only. 

 

America loves an underdog…or at least, the overwhelming majority of conservative and moderate Americans love an underdog.  For all the things that he certainly is not, Donald Trump is an iconic underdog.  He relishes the “against all odds” battle; he feeds off the energy of criticism and derision; the bright lights of celebrity charge his batteries; and his ego gains superhuman strength when given a glimmer of opportunity.  Somehow, even through all of his hubris, he has stumbled consistently upon policies that are not only wildly popular with many Americans; those same policies have proven to be extremely fair, equitable, and good for our nation and its citizenry.  So why in the world would any Republican, Independent, or moderate Democrat even consider someone else to run against Joe Biden in 2024?

 

The undeniable truth is that Donald Trump is the most polarizing politician in recent memory.  He enjoys undying loyalty from his followers; but he also attracts unmitigated hatred from many of his detractors.   And while every single one of us has character flaws, Trump is like most politicians in that his flaws seem to be magnified by the celebrity status he enjoys.  The power and influence of political status seems to cast a neon glow on Trump’s less desirable habits.  And the elephant sitting on the couch in the Republican living room has a clear message for the party of Reagan: Donald Trump’s negatives are damn near as large as Donald Trump’s positives. 

 

The critical issue in the next presidential race is not to shove Donald Trump in the face of the liberal elites who have poisoned this nation over the last several years.  It is not addressing the craven urge to see the mainstream media proven to be as impotent as we hope they have become.  It is not even to return Trump to office in order to resurrect those policies that served our people so well during his term as President.  Why not?  Because we can have those same policies without Trump.  The single, most important issue in our next presidential election is to keep Joe Biden, or whoever the Democrats might choose to replace him with, out of the White House.  And the fact is that Donald Trump does not present the best chance of getting that goal accomplished.

 

If the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump as their presidential candidate in 2024…and if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2024…the Republican Party and all those who voted for Trump will share equally with the Democratic voters in the continuing ruination of this great nation.  The zeal to stick it to the Democrats and their liberal cabal cannot be allowed to transfer its energy and strength over to Donald Trump for his self glorification and ego-stroking.  Because if that occurs…there is a good chance that he will fall short of election day victory, take down with him the marvelous opportunity for voters to cleanse our government of the ongoing liberal foolishness that is coursing through it, and perhaps set the stage for an American devolution that will turn out to be beyond redemption. 

 

To all the MAGA Trump supporters: celebrate your cause…celebrate it loudly and proudly; fire up your enthusiasm for change and a return to reason.  Campaign energetically for Republican candidates all up and down the local and national ballots; vote and promote voting to all that are eligible to do so.  But do not place all of that hope…and reason…and dedication…and principle in the vessel of Donald Trump.  Place your bets on the competitor that has the single best chance to accomplish what must be done.  Listen to your heart…but vote with your head.  The stakes in the next election are far too serious to compete therein on the basis of pure emotion.

 

These are the types of policies that we need…

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/17/disneys-wild-ride-desantis-appointed-board-set-to-declare-disneys-unchecked-authority-null-and-void/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/deflorida-blueprint-ron-desantis-education-policies-2024-gop-primary

https://reason.com/video/2023/04/25/fewer-people-are-going-to-college-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing/

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/to-improve-youth-sports-reform-the-adults/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/desantis-biggest-accomplishments-2023-legislative-session

https://mrctv.org/blog/gov-desantis-its-not-health-care-cut-private-parts-14-or-15-year-old-thats-mutilation

https://reason.com/2023/04/20/these-members-of-congress-have-a-revolutionary-idea-write-and-pass-a-budget-the-old-fashioned-way/

https://reason.com/2023/04/24/the-house-gop-debt-ceiling-plan-would-restore-spending-caps-good/

https://reason.com/2023/05/09/failing-to-reform-social-security-means-mandatory-cuts/

https://mrctv.org/blog/ceo-survey-ranks-texas-1-state-business-california-50-9-10-worst-have-dem-governors

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/28/bagging-jim-eagle-11th-circuit-upholds-floridas-voting-reforms/#more-204249

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/if-health-care-is-so-expensive-why-are-hospitals-closing-their-doors/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/21/perhaps-we-should-all-go-back-to-church/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/26/a-mandate-for-leadership-for-the-next-presidency/

 

These are the types of policies that we now have and do not need:

 

Doubling the size of the Internal Revenue Service….

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/irs-plan-for-self-preservation-comes-at-taxpayers-expense

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldsenior-irs-agent-blows-whistle-alleging-bide-doj-thwarting

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/20/preferential-treatment-irs-whistleblower-claims-political-influence-and-possible-perjury-related-to-the-hunter-biden-investigation/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-inflation-reduction-act-spending/2023/05/02/id/1118351/

 

Filling our government with incompetent fools…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/16/freak-show-administration/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/dont-let-them-rewrite-the-pandemic/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/fauci-is-just-a-symptom-of-an-incompetent-entrenched-bureaucracy

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/our-profoundly-unserious-moment/

 

Permitting climate concerns to push us into idiotic practices…

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/electric-vehicle-makers-are-threatening-public-safety

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/dept-energy-secretary-backs-mandate-all-military-vehicles-go-green

https://jewishworldreview.com/0523/murdock050823.php

 

Allowing power and influence to corrupt our government…

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/19/the-bullet-train-epitomizes-golden-state-corruption/

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3963743-antony-blinken-and-the-made-men-of-the-biden-administration/ 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/19/meet-the-shadowy-group-that-ran-the-federal-governments-censorship-scheme/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/21/feds-still-fighting-release-of-j6-tapes-despite-mounting-legal-pressure/

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/25/biden-praises-tennessee-legislators-for-standing-up-for-democracy-by-stopping-the-legislative-process/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/from-tennessee-to-montana-democrats-are-now-cheering-mobs-in-state-legislatures

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fisa-congress-intel-officials/2023/04/27/id/1117807/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/01/washington-media-drop-the-charade-over-their-annual-dinner-now-they-want-you-to-know-how-corrupt-they-are/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/20/america-doesnt-have-a-free-press/

Infecting our national education system with wokeness, perversion, and a focus on nearly 

everything EXCEPT fundamental education….

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/zero-democrats-vote-for-house-bill-to-protect-womens-sports

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/todays-peak-academic-asininity.php

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-blue-state-education-nightmare/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/learning-loss-is-real-lori-lightfoot-slams-randi-weingartens-teachers-union-for-delaying-school-reopening/

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/is-randi-weingarten-a-mother-its-complicated/

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/randi-weingarten-ruined-kids-lives-but-she-refuses-to-apologize-for-not-following-the-science/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-were-the-tip-of-the-spear-conservative-dad-confronts-teachers-union-boss-over-school-closures-in-viral-video

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/americans-invest-far-too-much-in-higher-education-credentials/

 

Ignoring basic economic rules and running our nation’s financial business

as if it was a Monopoly game…

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/21/bidens-student-loan-pause-overwhelmingly-benefited-wealthier-americans/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/cost-servicing-federal-debt-highest-level-23-years

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-negotiations-debt-ceiling-fight

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-biden-warming-up-to-the-14th-amendment-strategy-on-debt-ceiling/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/dominoes-fall-worst-debt-ceiling-scenerio

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/dollar-plunges-amid-economic-uncertainty

https://mrctv.org/blog/biden-brags-real-disposable-income-increased-doesnt-mention-real-earnings-fell

https://reason.com/2023/04/27/biden-is-pushing-federal-regulatory-powers-into-uncharted-territory/

https://reason.com/2023/04/26/stadium-subsidy-stupidity-hits-new-record/

 

Destroying what was recently an efficient and effective immigration system and replacing

it with essentially an open border agenda….

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/mayorkas-announces-new-actions-reduce-irregular-migration-across

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/bidens-latest-immigration-move-undermines-the-rule-of-law

 

Tossing away any global credibility and influence our nation once had, emboldening

 our enemies, and alienating our allies…

 https://www.dailywire.com/news/utterly-useless-biden-abandons-thousands-of-americans-in-war-torn-sudan

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/09/blinken-contest-house-committee-prepares-to-hold-secretary-of-state-in-contempt/#more-204733

The next election’s importance to our future could not be greater…

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/18/can-we-do-anything-about-americas-decline/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/27/conservatives-lost-the-culture-war-and-the-trump-agenda-is-the-only-path-forward/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/09/the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue/

This is the man to beat and this is the case to beat him…

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/even-the-times-is-airing-concerns-about-bidens-age-and-cognitive-abilities/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/most-americans-dont-believe-the-president-is-fit-to-serve-now-what

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-health-warning-feinstein-khanna-newsom-biden-competency-age-reelection-f8242e0c

https://jewishworldreview.com/0423/lowry043123.php

https://www.dailywire.com/news/deep-state-connection-ex-cia-chief-says-blinken-spurred-bid-to-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop-story

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/27/the-russia-hoax-orbiting-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-so-much-bigger-than-blinken/

https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/spy-letter-about-hunter-biden-shows-how-dems-are-undermining-democracy/

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fec-began-probing-2020-hunter-biden-laptop-suppression-weeks-ex

https://justthenews.com/government/security/wedbefore-intervening-biden-laptop-ex-cia-boss-stirred-russia-collusion

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/26/grassley-corroborates-whistleblower-claim-fbi-labeled-damning-evidence-russian-disinfo-to-protect-bidens/

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/evidence-emerges-hunter-biden-probe-investigators-see-political

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/24/6-reasons-the-irs-whistleblower-will-blow-open-dojs-biden-family-protection-racket/

The path is clear, the goal is simple…we must make the right choice…

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-biden-is-the-democrats-problem/

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/21/republicans-wide-open-door-to-win-in-2024/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/will-republicans-really-pick-the-one-candidate-biden-can-beat

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/the-blueprint-to-beat-biden-is-ron-desantis-not-another-4-years-of-trump/

 

The Abortion Pill, From 2000 to 2023

On March 22, 2023, I put up the following post:

 

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…………

 

The issue I was addressing in this post is the explosive nature, since the mid-90’s, of the “administrative state” in our government.  This phenomenon has resulted in a dramatic shift of power and authority from the Legislative Branch to the Executive Branch; it has distorted the fundamental representative nature of our Constitution; and it has enabled ideologues of all persuasions to foist their personal agendas on the American people while bypassing the Representatives and Senators that those very people sent up to Washington, DC to run our government…and our lives.

 

One of the top stories before us is the abortion pill controversy that lies today before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).  Here is a good, balanced, and brief summary of what that case is about: https://reason.com/2023/04/07/the-abortion-debate-is-messy-two-lawsuits-against-the-fda-may-make-it-worse/ .  It is anticipated that the SCOTUS will issue their ruling today on that case, but the extent of impact from that ruling is yet to be determined.  Any issue that has minimum tangential connection to the subject of abortion gets sucked into the vortex of hyperbole, mania, hypocrisy, and downright stupid debate rules.  The substance typically gets lost in the madness and the real issues being addressed are often overshadowed by the collateral noise.  I believe that to be the case in this matter.

 

The history of this episode demonstrates for anyone who cares to pay attention the profoundly ridiculous way our legislative branch interacts with our judicial branch when trying to sort out the legalities of executive administrative actions…often referred to as the Chevron Doctrine. Note that in this case, the fundamental question in play was posed in the year 2000.  Today…23 years later…we might get clarification from the SCOTUS…or not.   This is the exact point I was trying to address in my post on March 22 that is reprinted above.  For 23 years, the prevailing law on this abortion issue was not promulgated by our state governments or legislatures, nor was it was issued from our Congress of elected representatives.  Instead, this ruling that has affected incalculable lives and emotions throughout our society and culture was thrust upon us by some politically-appointed bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration.

 

If this distortion of our Constitution concerns you in the least, I urge you in the strongest terms to take about an hour of your time and listen to the linked podcast below.  Andrew McCarthy is a brilliant journalist who has the rare ability to distill complex issues down to their basics and present them in an understandable fashion that can enable us to understand what they are all about.  In this podcast, he addresses both my point about the epidemic-like growth of the administrative state and the circus-like environment that now surrounds the issue of abortion in America: https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/a-bitter-pill-you-shouldnt-swallow/ .

 

Somehow, someway, and sometime soon…our nation MUST return to the true intent of our Constitution.  We must restore the principles of state rights sovereignty, limitations on the size and authorities of our federal government, the balance of power between our branches of government, and most important of all…a restoration of integrity to our justice system that guarantees balanced, equal, unbiased, and SWIFT administration of our laws. 

 

In this instance, a blatantly dangerous and grossly irresponsible FDA ruling that began in the year 2000 has continued unabated for 23 years; it has been the law of the land. This is not a justice system.  This is not representative government.  This is a clown show and a perversion of our founder’s ideals for this nation.