The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon
Transcript of interview on the page
So, why are things DRAMATICALLY WORSE under Obama?
Its called self-sustaining bureaucracy.
Created over many decades by a Congress more concerned about being re-elected than accepting responsibility for governing.
I wonder if this Salon reporter enjoyed being told how government is the problem.
“Why did the face in the Oval Office change but the policies remain the same? Critics tend to focus on Obama himself, a leader who perhaps has shifted with politics to take a harder line. But Tufts University political scientist Michael J. Glennon has a more pessimistic answer: Obama couldn’t have changed policies much even if he tried.”
And he continues to provide examples of Obama’s inability to effect change although he tried because of this secret government.
Although I believe each alphabet in the government has its own agenda and marching orders, the White House Administration does manage and order them.
The idea that there is a longterm plan in effect is probable. Why would any company, business or nation for that matter not have a longterm plan to insure its viability.
This reads more like an apologia for Barak Hussein Obama and his massively inflated ego and highly demonstrated incompetence in all things managerial and governmental.
Neither party cares about Americans.
Oh boy. Not even 10 am and a “shadow government” story. Tin foil on aisle 3.
The Security State controls so much less than the Social Bureaucratic State.
Spiritual wickedness in high places keeps the ball rolling to hell.
Why has our last conservative P not stood up and said something about the direction the country is headed?
Because he built on the foundation laid before him as Obola does.
They are all globalists and they realize the only way to create their new world is to destroy the old one
Recommended first acts by President Cruz:
1) Repeal all previous Presidential Orders.
2) Fire and replace with solid conservatives every political position in government. Personnel is policy.
3) Ask each Cabinet Secretary to analyze their Department and come with a list of spending and projects to stop. Stop the spending, and make Congress sue the President to continue to implement stupid policy.
4) Pull every lever of government ever pulled by Liberals, but pull it harder for conservatism. When challenged, point to liberal manipulation, and retort that you are just doing what they do.
5) Judges.
6) Attack the priority list he published yesterday with legislation and presidential action.
President Cruz may only have 4 years. So he has to act fast to turn the country around. Even if he loses after 4 years, the great effects of hard right change will be long lasting.
Interesting book. Double Government is enabled by a ruling class in Congress that prefers things this way, in part so they can focus on maintaining their power base and lining their pockets.
We won’t change our evil ways, voluntarily. We’ll be forced to. Whether we will survive the process is another thing.
The only reason such a secret and not so secret government exists behind the scenes is because the government has assumed far too much unconstitutional authority.
When the federal government is cut back in an orderly fashion, the shadow government will proportionately cease to exist.
For example, the US Intelligence Community. It is composed of 17 different major agencies. in 2010 there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.
Private contractors make up 29% of their workforce in the U.S. intelligence community and cost half of their personnel budgets.
Importantly, when looking at size and budget reductions, the vast majority should involve *domestic* intelligence gathering in the US, basically the US spying on each and every one of its citizens, from a hundred different directions.
The rationale for massive cutbacks is that 99.999999999% of everything they do is waste. Insanely expensive waste. Insanely expensive that violates the constitution, common sense, and any conceivable real purpose waste.
The issue may be forced by an economic collapse, but cuts during one of those fall on the just and unjust alike. So it is far better to approach things rationally, when as a nation we aren’t yet falling apart.
The idea is that we should cut back not because we have to, but because waste, mismanagement, and uselessness should not be a part of an efficient government doing its job.
I’ve harped on this forever, and therefore am very happy to see this article posted.
I didn’t read the entire article as I have to leave now, but what I read is right on the mark.
We have to get rid of the departments of the Left. The departments they have legislated into existence, and packed the bureaucracies that run those departments with their own loyalists, and then to ensure their control over our government the Leftists unionized them all.
Try running a government of the people, for the people with that sort of obstacle in the way. The obstacles in the way of our government are in fact intentional by the Left, and must be removed. If we must revolt the revolution should put that aspect of D.C. square in the crosshairs.
Tufts, formerly a fine institution, has gone Marxist. The author fits right in.
Let’s test this theory when Cruz gets in.
At least part of the distance between a campaigning Obama and a pResident Obama is that the former had little if any knowledge of the real world and its threats, both in the realms of defense, trade, and collateral international relationships.
I concur that the bureaucracy limits degrees of change, but it can and should be done where necessary. Obama is pressing change incrementally, but only in the areas where he applies himself, e.g. immigration, healthcare, gay issues, selective enforcement of law, and dissolution of states rights via fiscal extortion. He and his attorney general have forced wedges in the gray areas of our laws, redefined those laws to suit themselves, and Congress is too timid to take much issue with this usurpation of their constitutional authority. Do you really think that the Department of Defense would have bent over on the gay issue had not the pResident been personally pushing the issue so vehemently? Mr. Obama has clearly indicated that he has a penchant to be risk adverse. Therefore, he pushes the issues where he directly controls the players and can feel safe that those individuals will acquiesce to him.
Just told someone that this morning!!! It doesn’t matter, a corrupt cadre of people are running the country to their benefit. NOTHING is going to change for the better until the people turn back to God.
Just told someone that this morning!!! It doesn’t matter, a corrupt cadre of people are running the country to their benefit. NOTHING is going to change for the better until the people turn back to God.
So, who are the ones calling the shots and when do we get to kill Mr. Soros?
Standard SUPPRESS THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE article...meant to convince conservatives that there is “no difference” between the parties - so conservatives STAY HOME, so the Dems can have a free ride to power.
Sad thing is that it seems to work, at least on this site (and with people I know).