Posted on 03/22/2017 8:40:30 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Caddell is a DEM but he’s also one of the more reasoned or reasonable ones. Remember it was he who was screaming at Obama and friends in Congress. The very election of Ryan as S.O.H. says something is very rotten in Congress within it’s rank and file members enough so that the Boehner Political Clone got elected to the position. There is some truth in what Pat is saying simply because of the Congress refuses to replace Ryan whom is as spineless and wishy washy as Boehner was. GOP-E tells Ryan what to do. That is why Congress feet must be held to the fire. The GOP-E sellouts goes all the way back to Boehner’s Coup on Newt and the GOP-E ending of Contract With America.
A Ryan government will lead to a Pelosi/Schumer government in 2018, and a Warren/Pelosi/Schumer government in 2020.
The president can’t pass a bill, but Congress can override a veto.
I personally have more faith that Trump can do his job and use the Bully Pulpit of the Presidency to move his agenda, than I have in Ryan to do his weaselly sabotaging of Trump behind the scenes and get away with it.
Time will tell, though.
Good question. And right now the likely answer is not a positive one.
That is the question.... since Ryancare is a crap bill.
The promises of "fixes" in round two and three is typical Rino speak to quiet the dissenters they see as ignorant electorates.
It seems quite reminiscent of Jonathan Gruber's play book.
Personally, I think it was addressed in the Federalist papers.
In #69 Hamilton argued that the president’s authority would be “nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces as first general and admiral of the confederacy” to quote one analyst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._69#cite_note-2
Federalist 76 makes some interesting observations on the balance between congress and the President.
#49 emphasizes that the power to impeach is a check against an imperial presidency.
Republican House members would do well to remember who brought them to the dance.
Hint: It wasn’t Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan also changed after he failed as a VP candidate, and the Establishment told him, either join us and become a star or be a low-level congressman the rest of your career. Donald Trump may be forced by whoever to work with him or maybe they would have forced a contested convention on him if he didn’t agree.
Congress authorized Barack “Diamond Jim” Obama to write checks to the UN to “combat global warming in third world countries” in the amounts 500 million?
And all the other largesse Barry doled out with his US Treasury checkbook?
Then it would seem to me that we’re in trouble if congress is running things.
Obama himself made an interesting comment in an interview at the very end of his term in office. He was asked about the biggest positive and negative aspects of being president. For the negative side, he said something like: “You learn quickly that you’re really not in charge.”
“Congress can override a veto.”
And considering the number of cucks in the GOP, that’s a definite possibility.
I was hoping Trump would be using the office as more of a `bully pulpit’ by this time. But here we are with him seeming to ignore little municipal gods and university administrators claiming “sanctuary status” while threatening legislators who question Obamacare II.
I’m not privy to his strategy sessions, of course, but it is discouraging to see what appears to be business as usual in Foggy Bottom and the president being coopted by that snake Ryan.
That’s all relevant but pretty much just constitutional obiter dictum.
I doubt if a lot of the movers-and-shakers in DC have even read the Federalist Papers, especially the left side (SEE: certain more outspoken members of the BCC) that couldn’t be bothered to read the act they passed in 2010.
Proof: http://www.leadinglawyers.com/helpdesk/us_constitution.htm
“The Constitution merely established the three branches; it did not set forth how powers would be divided beyond basic descriptions of each branch’s duties. For example, the notion that the U.S. Supreme Court’s role would be to pass constitutional judgment on laws passed by Congress is nowhere found in the Constitution. The practice instead arose primarily through the efforts of John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court.”
For example, there was no discussion of the right of `judicial review’ of executive actions by the founders or mention of it in the Constitution. The Supreme Court claimed it in Marbury v. Madison and it was done. The decisions by the federal district courts setting aside President Trump’s EOs are illegitimate.
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, what we are seeing now? Either the last attempts of Uniparty to set aside the election or precursors to armed revolution. I received another box of ammo today.
Republicans do not care who brought them to the dance, because we keep sending them to the dance, and regardless of what they do or do not do, we send them back to the dance.
Very sadly, Trump has no choice but to work with the piece of crap politicians that we have allowed to infest the place.
Ryancare is a RINO trap to undermine support for Trump. It sets up a showdown in 2020 just in time to cost him re-election.
So all that Money Obama passed out was in the budget was it? Oh wait we didn't have a budget curtesy of Ryan and McConnell.
Tell Ryan we want TERM LIMITS.
“I received another box of ammo today.”
Only one?
:-) We’re gonna need more than that I fear
I see it (the intent of the design) as the President having the ability to act swiftly when needed with the legislature being more reflective and to address issues in more depth. Again, just based on (my reading of) the Federalist papers. The ‘tiebreaker’ is the power to impeach.
Ryan is white Obama.
He doesn't need a bill he has an Executive Order, which apparently are harder to undo that amendments to the Constitution.
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