Posted on 01/26/2021 2:18:10 PM PST by Kaslin
If there were devices designed to measure the amount of political hypocrisy in the air, they’d be exploding all over the country. There’s a new party in control of D.C., which means everything that was bad is now good and vice versa. If you were quoting Thomas Jefferson on January 19th, you’re more a Hamiltonian today.
Time to lift those draconian coronavirus shutdowns in California, Michigan, and other blue states; it turns out they’re hurting the economy! Travel bans aren’t xenophobic; they protect us! The procedural filibuster is a Jim Crow law!
For four years, Democrats and their media portrayed President Trump as Snidely-esque villain, twirling his mustache as he tied America to the train tracks. Now, they’ll spend the next four years asking Jen Psaki to elaborate on Biden’s favorite ice cream flavor while Biden does all the same things that used to be a “danger to our democracy.”
What was fascist authoritarianism when Trump was president is now crucial to our protection. Just ask the newly-minted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Schumer suggested that Biden should use the National Emergency Act to allow him to go around Congress in order to deal with the issue of climate change. Schumer told Maddow, “He [Biden] can do many, many things under the emergency powers of the President that wouldn’t have to go through—that he could do without legislation.”
If the idea of using the National Emergency Act to go around Congress sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the tactic President Trump used to go around Congress to fund the border wall.
Schumer acknowledged in the interview with Maddow that he was definitely suggesting the exact same tactic. Schumer explained, “Trump used this emergency for a stupid wall which wasn’t an emergency, but if there was ever an emergency, climate is one.”
Schumer spun history so hard with that comment I thought Pat Sajak was about to show up and ask him for a letter. In reality, when Trump used this tactic, Schumer wasn’t— as he now claims—against it because of the substance of Trump’s policy. In fact, Schumer excoriated the move with apocalyptic rhetoric.
Less than two years ago, Schumer railed against Trump’s national emergency gambit as being blatantly unconstitutional. He called it “an outrageous power grab by a president who refuses to accept the constitutional separation of powers.”
In a joint statement with Nancy Pelosi, Schumer said, “The President's actions clearly violate the Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, which our Founders enshrined in the Constitution.” He also claimed that President Trump was lawless and that this was an attempt to “shred the Constitution.”
It was an existential threat to everything we hold dear! At least, it was when Trump was president.
Now that there’s a new president—a Democrat president—Schumer suddenly has a newfound fondness for this tactic. A new guy moves into the White House and in the blink of an eye what was an unconstitutional shredding of the Constitution became a bullet point on Schumer’s leadership tip-sheet.
It will be awkward if Biden follows Schumer’s advice given that Biden’s HHS nominee, Xavier Becerra, literally sued the Trump administration claiming the tactic violated the appropriations clause of the Constitution.
The truth is, this was not unconstitutional when Trump did it, and it’s not unconstitutional now. Congress passed a ridiculous law that allows the president alone to define what is or is not a national emergency. It’s actually the 94th Congress that should be excoriated for handing over their power to the president nearly half a century ago.
Schumer’s game now is to pretend he was against Trump’s national emergency because he disagreed with the policy, but the truth is Schumer decried the action—the action he’s now urging the new president to take— as a lawless violation of fundamental constitutional principles. A danger to our Democracy. A slap in the face to the founding fathers.
The fact that Schumer’s interpretation of the Constitution is dependent upon who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue provides a lot of insight into the four-year temper tantrum that we were all witness to. Those things that were existential threats to our entire way of life are simply good government in the Biden era. Nothing to do now but sit back and discover what else is only dangerous when Republicans do it.
Sounds like Chuck is trying to get arrested and shredded
Grab power and shred the Constitution....
Hasn’t that happened already?
The man is a reprobate, a charlatan, a goof ball, a cretin filled with hate, and a professional grifter. Other than that..
The party that holds power in all three branches is talking as if it wants to now stage a coup and seize power.
Meanwhile, they dream of a trial for guy who is out of power, and whose own party wants to stab him in the back. They somehow accuse him of staging an coup or insurrection and want him utterly destroyed, even though he has already been banished to a house in Florida.
I think the French Revolution was about as crazy as this.
Our highest institutions...
...are broken.
Yup. After screaming what a “dictator” Trump was for four years. No surprise.
The border wall was indeed a response to an emergency. We had all sorts of illegal narcotics flowing across our southern border, massive numbers of overdose cases, and our southern neighbor transforming from a vacation hot spot into a land ruled by cartels.
The party that holds power in all three branches is talking as if it wants to now stage a coup and seize power.
AND HE HAS BECOME IT'S DEMONCRAP LEADER?????
Good Lord Almighty!!
“I think the French Revolution was about as crazy as this.”
Good point. The Biden regime isn’t really about liberty, equality, and fraternity either.
Yes back when obama was elected
[Climate Change]
Ignore those rising gas prices, home heating oil prices, lack of stimulus checks, lack of jobs, lack of any real solutions, Americans.
The important thing is Climate Change!
AND transgenders in the military!
[Climate Change]
Ignore those rising gas prices, home heating oil prices, lack of stimulus checks, lack of jobs, lack of any real solutions, Americans.
The important thing is Climate Change!
AND transgenders in the military!
And the media covers it all up.
He's not in Florida.
He was last seen departing Andrews on AF1, ostensibly for FL. On 1/21 at noon, an FAA TFR in FL switched from POTUS (30 mi) to VIP (3 mi). Both are now gone. The only significant TFR right now is DC.
They keep talking about “unity.”
Why would these kindly, decent Democrats, full of love for the misfits of the world want to
unify with us.....people they consider to be neo-Nazis, white supremacists and deplorables?
We annoy them something fierce.
Everyone knows we are simply “not worthy” to associate with “tolerant and compassionate” Democrats.
But wait...”unity” has a hidden agenda......if the unifiers can convince the rest of us that all they want to do is
“make nice,” they think that will disarm us, so we will be unprepared when they bring down the hammer on us.
(h/t Vehmgericht)
The man’s nuts...Shred ‘em.
Words fail me, but you must know what I think.
You didn’t mention that he, like nearly all Demoncrats, is a thoroughly evil minion of Satan.
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