Here I go again, the old pessimist. I do `not expect any action by the Senate or Biden. I am still trying to ascertain whether it is cowardice, complicity or corruption, the same Biden is showing by refusing to use his Art II and 14th Amendment powers. He could declare an environmental emergency (Art. II) and refuse the petroleum complex…
Here I go again, the old pessimist. I do `not expect any action by the Senate or Biden. I am still trying to ascertain whether it is cowardice, complicity or corruption, the same Biden is showing by refusing to use his Art II and 14th Amendment powers. He could declare an environmental emergency (Art. II) and refuse the petroleum complex of exporting our oil to foreign countries, thus lowering the price of gasoline and inflation, but that would anger the petrochemical donors...so no go. He could with an executive order, raise the debt limit, but that would anger the Republicans, and to hell with the government employees, folks on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNP and other social programs.
I suspect that a good portion of the donors to the DNC (not we the people) are hinging their support for the DNC on killing this programs, so they can be privatized.
My pessimism is based on prior performance, or lack thereof,which is a prediction of future performance.
Optimism and wishful thinking, assuming good faith, are leading us into the state of autocratic rule by a burgeoning neo fascist but growing minority. The neo fascists are a highly motivated 30-35% of the population and that is all that is need to take over the country, And to my estimation, there is not a real, serious, opposition and we have the best government money can buy
The house has nothing to do with appointing or remove SCOTUS. They were approved by the senate, and can be removed by the appointing authority. Federal Judges do not go before the house for approval.
I am waiting to see if Biden uses his constitutional authority, Art II and 14th Amendment to issue an executive order that will raise the debt limit.
I fear not, he is either weak, a compromiser, corrupt or cowardly.
What I am expecting him to do is "compromise with McCarthy, weaken social security that it can be privatized, which is what Peter Peterson, and investment bankers have been wanting (to use the trust fund to finance gambling on Wall Street and FICA payments as an income stream, and Biden will claim that he has done us a big favor by rescuing social security. Truth is that Social Security is not under threat, the corporate whores in the media have been pushing that lie, because the bankers are their ultimate paymasters,, and many are libertarians, economic, not cultural. Culturally they are fascists.
Congress has two houses. Representative and the Senate. I do not believe that he needs the house, FDR didn't and threatened to expand the court to 11 and SCOTUS caved.
As regards Biden not using the 14th Amendment because his fear of SCOTUS. Have you read that, do you have a link., In my opinion that is baseless apologia, there is lots of that going around to rationalize Biden's failure to act with strength, where as he defaults to what he learned in the Senate, consensus and compromise, and that is no way to govern, but is an excuse for weakness and failure.
So use the 14th Amendment let it wind up in the Supreme Court, by the time it does, it is after the fact and too late. Fear of the Supreme Court is a lame excuse.
There is also Art II, declaring a national emergency which has been used by used by Lincoln during the Civil War to ignore Habeus Corpus, and the power was legislated in 1976 Since passage of the National Emergencies Act in 1976, every U.S. President has declared multiple national emergencies: Carter (2); Reagan: (6); H.W. Bush (4); Clinton (17); W. Bush (12); Obama: (13); Trump (7)
And there goes the SCOTUS excuse. I am not into excuses or looking back. What is is, and the past can't be changed, sour grapes don't hack it, what is important is the here and now and how actions or inactions today affect the future.
And the future is scary, for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and civil servants, not to mention the millions of jobs which are dependent on government contracts and business, and the 2nd and 3rd and 4th hand business and jobs that benefit from same, And I am haven't even touched the harm coming to gays, lesbians, trans and even non Christian people
As regards Emails. I've had it with that lame excuse for Hillary losing. She was an unattractive candidate and not to be trusted, her husband is responsible for the rust belt/swing states, the school to prison conveyor belt, the Defense of Marriage Act, and Don't ask don't tell, he repealed the fairness doctrine and with the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, he enabled the monopolization of communications and the press, which among other things has allowed Fox to grown into the mega fascist company it is, and for Sinclair and Heartland to gobble up all the progressive stations and turn them into fascist bullhorns.
If the DNC and the "wise women of SC" hadn't put their thumb on the scale for Hillary, Trump might not have been President.
And the women of color in SC and the south, claim to be the base of the Democratic party, they even got SC to be the first Democratic primary. Their heads are too full of themselves, by the same token that they control the Democratic party primary, they lose the general election.
Win the battle lose the war, call me racist if you wish, but facts are facts. White nationalism is winning the culture war, and propelling us backwards in time, because hard headed people over estimate their power, and are not in touch with realpolitik.
Here I go again, the old pessimist. I do `not expect any action by the Senate or Biden. I am still trying to ascertain whether it is cowardice, complicity or corruption, the same Biden is showing by refusing to use his Art II and 14th Amendment powers. He could declare an environmental emergency (Art. II) and refuse the petroleum complex of exporting our oil to foreign countries, thus lowering the price of gasoline and inflation, but that would anger the petrochemical donors...so no go. He could with an executive order, raise the debt limit, but that would anger the Republicans, and to hell with the government employees, folks on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNP and other social programs.
I suspect that a good portion of the donors to the DNC (not we the people) are hinging their support for the DNC on killing this programs, so they can be privatized.
My pessimism is based on prior performance, or lack thereof,which is a prediction of future performance.
Optimism and wishful thinking, assuming good faith, are leading us into the state of autocratic rule by a burgeoning neo fascist but growing minority. The neo fascists are a highly motivated 30-35% of the population and that is all that is need to take over the country, And to my estimation, there is not a real, serious, opposition and we have the best government money can buy
The house has nothing to do with appointing or remove SCOTUS. They were approved by the senate, and can be removed by the appointing authority. Federal Judges do not go before the house for approval.
I am waiting to see if Biden uses his constitutional authority, Art II and 14th Amendment to issue an executive order that will raise the debt limit.
I fear not, he is either weak, a compromiser, corrupt or cowardly.
What I am expecting him to do is "compromise with McCarthy, weaken social security that it can be privatized, which is what Peter Peterson, and investment bankers have been wanting (to use the trust fund to finance gambling on Wall Street and FICA payments as an income stream, and Biden will claim that he has done us a big favor by rescuing social security. Truth is that Social Security is not under threat, the corporate whores in the media have been pushing that lie, because the bankers are their ultimate paymasters,, and many are libertarians, economic, not cultural. Culturally they are fascists.
Congress has two houses. Representative and the Senate. I do not believe that he needs the house, FDR didn't and threatened to expand the court to 11 and SCOTUS caved.
As regards Biden not using the 14th Amendment because his fear of SCOTUS. Have you read that, do you have a link., In my opinion that is baseless apologia, there is lots of that going around to rationalize Biden's failure to act with strength, where as he defaults to what he learned in the Senate, consensus and compromise, and that is no way to govern, but is an excuse for weakness and failure.
So use the 14th Amendment let it wind up in the Supreme Court, by the time it does, it is after the fact and too late. Fear of the Supreme Court is a lame excuse.
There is also Art II, declaring a national emergency which has been used by used by Lincoln during the Civil War to ignore Habeus Corpus, and the power was legislated in 1976 Since passage of the National Emergencies Act in 1976, every U.S. President has declared multiple national emergencies: Carter (2); Reagan: (6); H.W. Bush (4); Clinton (17); W. Bush (12); Obama: (13); Trump (7)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act#:~:text=Since%20passage%20of%20the%20National,13)%3B%20Trump%20(7).
And there goes the SCOTUS excuse. I am not into excuses or looking back. What is is, and the past can't be changed, sour grapes don't hack it, what is important is the here and now and how actions or inactions today affect the future.
And the future is scary, for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and civil servants, not to mention the millions of jobs which are dependent on government contracts and business, and the 2nd and 3rd and 4th hand business and jobs that benefit from same, And I am haven't even touched the harm coming to gays, lesbians, trans and even non Christian people
As regards Emails. I've had it with that lame excuse for Hillary losing. She was an unattractive candidate and not to be trusted, her husband is responsible for the rust belt/swing states, the school to prison conveyor belt, the Defense of Marriage Act, and Don't ask don't tell, he repealed the fairness doctrine and with the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, he enabled the monopolization of communications and the press, which among other things has allowed Fox to grown into the mega fascist company it is, and for Sinclair and Heartland to gobble up all the progressive stations and turn them into fascist bullhorns.
If the DNC and the "wise women of SC" hadn't put their thumb on the scale for Hillary, Trump might not have been President.
And the women of color in SC and the south, claim to be the base of the Democratic party, they even got SC to be the first Democratic primary. Their heads are too full of themselves, by the same token that they control the Democratic party primary, they lose the general election.
Win the battle lose the war, call me racist if you wish, but facts are facts. White nationalism is winning the culture war, and propelling us backwards in time, because hard headed people over estimate their power, and are not in touch with realpolitik.