IT’S TIME TO LAY BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS, AT OUR FOUNDING FATHER’S CONSTITUTIONAL FEET!



By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!

IT’S TIME TO LAY BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS, AT OUR FOUNDING FATHER’S CONSTITUTIONAL FEET!

Another weekend off trying to keep my head down and following through, but I see that the Progressive left continues to be able to do just that, and that’s because their steady in their resolve to take down the only outsider non-politician in history that the American people decided was right for the job, and given the OK to put the mandated people’s ‘Will’ into action.

When was the last time we had a political party rooting against the ability for America to be great again, when clearly, they are the ones responsible for the birth of the ‘America First’ branch of the ‘new’ Republican Party and President Trump, which is Obama’s legacy. What makes this even sadder is that these politicians on the left are lining up to defend their stance against the American people, against America’s military’s resurrection, for outsourcing American jobs by being against lowering taxes and regulations on Corporations so they would have no choice other than to pack up and leave, and give America’s innovation and technology to other countries! Now don't forget at the same time that these countries are not paying any tariffs or import fees, which is what American goods and services are charged by every country when America’s products and services try to compete in their countries!

The ‘left’ actually believes that if they torpedo the ‘Will’ of the American people, and offer no assistance In the American people’s mandate, that their constituency will flock to the polls in the 2018 mid-terms, and get greatly rewarded for their obstruction, resistance, and anti-American message! Obama took 22 months to get his big lie, Obamacare, to the American people about the facts, but now refuse to come up with any fixes about healthcare, non existent foreign policy, no tax reform, and definitely nothing in their budget that would rebuild our military!

I don’t know about you, but I found President Trump’s first G20 and his first stop in Poland to be inspirational, and if you’re an American and lived through the last 8 years under President Obama’s Socialist agenda, and legacy! President Trump had an amazing week. He just completed his first G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. But, when it comes to our mainstream media and liberals this is not the case. They want you to know that the President had bad week according to few of their headlines and that he messed things up. This is not correct at all. Even the foreign press praised him and told what an amazing job he's doing!

PRESIDENT TRUMP WON ON CLIMATE AND TRADE AND ENERGY PRODUCTION!

The New York Times headline made it look like Trump had a bad week.

The Times feared that the US is not isolated on the world stage.

 That’s what they want you to think.

You wouldn’t know President Trump had a very successful summit unless you read the foreign news.

The liberal US media won’t report it!

Trump wins key climate, trade concessions at stormy G20

 Leaders of major economies seek to preserve unity despite Washington’s combative approach

US President Donald Trump won key concessions on climate and trade Saturday from world leaders at the most fractious G20 summit to date, in exchange for preserving the unity of the club of major industrialized and emerging economies.

In a final statement agreed by all 20 economies, 19 members including Russia, China and the European Union acknowledged Trump’s decision to go his own way on taking the US out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.

But they also accommodated Washington’s wish to “work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.”

While renewing a key anti-protectionist pledge, the communique for the first time underlined the right of countries to protect their markets with “legitimate trade defense instruments.”

Such wording gives room for Trump to push on with his “America First” policy. 

President Trump is the only one who proudly declared that has and will protect the country physically and financially. Shame on New York Times this time. This is so wrong. President Trump has a long list of accomplishments, you are being dishonest. ~~~J.N.

The Constitution has given everybody and anybody, based on intent and interpretation, a voice, even if you’re an unvetted illegal immigrant or refugee! Don’t worry though because we are reminded by the Progressive left that we are all immigrants, and even though those same early immigrants made the laws of the land to protect America from the freedoms and rights that were taken away by those same  countries immigrants, who are now coming to America today, but with not the same motives, believe they don’t have to assimilate and embrace our constitutional laws, respect our Christian based beliefs, or guarantee the freedoms and rights to individuals that they themselves deny to the ones who live with them, and then hide behind the guarantees of the constitution in the attempt to practice their own laws and rights of religion while at the same time preventing women to experience the same freedoms and rights that are assumed by every female American citizen!

How did the ACLU become the judge and jury of separation of Church and State? Why is it that every illegal immigrant and refugee is guaranteed the same privileges as American citizens when it comes to due process? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for caring and feeding, and now paying for every illegal’s legal battles against our constitutional republic’s laws when it comes to their criminal actions, and being hidden by Sanctuary Cities, and allowed to continue committing crimes against the American people.

Well, we could go on, but let’s stop for now with those examples. What is causing these botherances?

We tend to attribute them to what we take to be the proximate cause, namely the most recent actions by the current actors. Perfectly reasonable.

And — because of the worshipful attitude Americans bring to the founders of the Republic and the Framers of the U.S. Constitution — we are unlikely to think about the degree to which the botherances are rooted in the rules and the system that the Framers gave us in 1787.

But, at the risk of committing sacrilege, to the extent that they are about the way our government is functioning or malfunctioning, our botherances are rooted in the system, as written by the Framers, as Amended, as revised by various Supreme Court interpretations and as evolved by other slightly mysterious means.

Invisible

A lot of aspects of the Constitutional system are invisible to us because we are so used to them. Since this last election was a presidential election year, the Electoral College system is a good example, and as this series progresses the sources and history of that strange system will be under the microscope. But I can tell you this for starters: A great many new democracies have created systems of government since 1787, and they have had the benefit of the U.S. example. They haven’t adopted anything like the Electoral College system. In fact, none of the newer democracies has embraced the U.S. Constitution as the model they wanted to follow.

And many things that most Americans think are in the Constitution are not — at least not explicitly. For example, read Article III, establishing the Judicial Branch. Not a syllable of it grants the Supreme Court the power to overrule the more democratic legislative and executive branches on what laws they can pass or how to administer them. This is at least an awkward omission, considering how fundamental to our understanding of the balance of power this authority is. And this should be especially awkward to those conservatives who take the position that the federal government has no powers other than those explicitly enumerated in the Constitution.

For today, let’s focus on the “gridlock,” which may rank at the top of the list of currently fashionable complaints.

Imperfect Union: The Constitutional roots of the mess we're in Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell probably regrets having said in 2010 that his top priority is to make Barack Obama a one-term president because his statement has become the symbol for the idea that the Republicans are willing to sabotage the economy if necessary to set them up to win the 2012 election. But he’s stuck with it. And it offers — at least to liberal/Democratic ears — a simple explanation for gridlock. We have gridlock because the Republicans won’t compromise because they want Obama to look bad so they can win the next election.

The Progressive left is doing the same to President Trump, the outsider non-politician President of the United States, and the one charged to deliver on his campaign promises is now being blocked at every turn while trying to implement the ‘Will’ of the American people’s mandate. The House, Senate, and White House are now being controlled by the Republicans, and the Progressive left still chooses to sit on their hands when America’s healthcare reform is in jeopardy of going under, but you have to know that the American people are watching and focusing on who are part of the bipartisan ‘Swamp’s’ resistance and obstructionists who are fighting against making America great again! 

For the moment, I’m not so interested in how true and/or fair that summary is (although much deeper poli-sci thinkers than myself subscribe to it). I want to raise a more fundamental question.

It’s the most natural thing in the world for Mitch McConnell to want his party’s candidates to win the next mid-term election, and with President Trump winning 10 states that are still being represented by Democratic Senators, you would think that ‘Senate60’ in 2018 is more than a possible reality, but almost a slam dunk considering the lack of interest in anything the ‘Will’ of the American people care about by the Progressive left.

Well, the problem is that our system is built for gridlock. It creates more choke points along the path from bill to law, and empowers more groups to stop the action, than just about any other in the world.

If a party holds just one of those three towers of power, it’s fairly easy for that party — if they choose that strategy — to see to it that nothing much happens.

 

There are many democracies around the world. Some of them have two houses of the legislature, like ours. In some of those, one of the houses is relatively weak (the House of Lords in Britain and the Senate in Canada leap to mind).

Choke points

But, if you want to create the maximum number of choke points, you should have two houses and require every bill to have majority support in each house.

And, in our system, even legislation that has the support of majorities of both houses plus the White House cannot become law if 41 of the 100 senators use the filibuster to block it (unless it is one of the relatively few bills that are allowed to circumvent the filibuster through the hilariously misnamed loophole called “reconciliation”).

The U.S. filibuster tradition, which deserves a whole separate story of its own, is unique. University of Minnesota political scientist David Samuels, who studies comparative democratic systems around the world, says he doesn’t know of anything much like it.

Then — as the Supreme Court case on the Obamacare law reminded us — even a bill that has run the gantlet of passage by both houses, overcoming or circumventing (in this case it was some of both) a filibuster in the Senate and dodging the potential for a veto by the president, can still be defeated by the least democratic branch, the Supreme Court.

Yes, I know. The Supreme Court, by a one-vote margin, did not strike down the law, although it did substantially change the law in a way that the Congressional Budget Office projects will result in about three million Americans being without health insurance who would probably have been covered if the Supreme Court had let the law stand in its entirety.

The experts on comparative democratic systems around the world who have been advising me on this series generally agree that the U.S. system grants more power for the courts to overrule the elected branches — and that the U.S. Supreme Court does so more often — than anywhere else.

Few things, if any, are more widely and secularly worshipped by Americans than our Constitution, which is the symbol, nay the apotheosis, of our system of government, which our speechifiers routinely declare to be the greatest such system ever developed by humans.

And yet, if you look around the world where many democratic systems of government now exist, ours erects more barriers to the enactment of a law than any other.

Yes, the gridlock that is bothering you is the immediate result of some fairly recent and important changes in how our political parties play the game. For most of recent history, the parties have been broad, overlapping coalitions. In the days when there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats, it made sense that there would be bipartisan coalitions for and against many things.

Now the two parties are ideologically further apart, more ideologically coherent, more disciplined, more willing to vote as a bloc, and perhaps they now strike the balance in a different place between what’s best for the country and what’s best for their party’s chances in the next election.

But they are still playing the game within the rules.

And the rules are established in (or near, or at least under) the Constitution. If we want to understand the source of what’s bothering us, we have to be willing to trace the bother to its source. In many cases, that source lies within the Constitution or, in some cases, to aspects of the system that most Americans probably think are clearly rooted in the Constitution

Well, this little screed — Or do I mean tone poem? You tell me — is the introductory installment in an ongoing series that will bravely seek to explore the connection between the news and the old’s, between what’s bothering us now and the system in which the botherances are, at least in many cases, rooted. ~~Partly By Eric Black, a Friend of America!

545 PEOPLE RESONSIBLE FOR AMERICA’S WOES!

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton- picking thing. I don't care if they offer some politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.

No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

A CONFIDENCE CONSPIRACY

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a SPEAKER, who stood up and criticized G.W. Bush ALONE for creating deficits.

The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.

Who is the speaker of the House? He or She is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow Republicans of the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto.

REPLACE THE SCOUNDRELS

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility. (and all should be convicted of dereliction of duty as defined by their oath of office, and in some cases outright treason.)

I can't think of a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, that is not traceable directly to those 545 people

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.

There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation" or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.   The election is not that far away! ~~By Charley Reese, a Friend of America!

The 'Swamp' is not Party specific, it's more than Bipartisan, its anti-American! President Trump's 'America First' Party is the only one that should matter, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on! Donald J. Trump may not, and maybe never will be the best choice for President, but his message and dedication when he could have retired and spent the rest of his life golfing, like Obama did while President, says volumes to his mission, and making America great again........! America has a chance, with this President, to be America again......but it's going to take new leadership on the left, the eradication of the 'Progressive' cancer which is spreading through the well-respected Traditional Democratic Party, and a few defectors who are willing to cross over and help make America great again, and than living up to the mandate that the American people approved of during the last election! 

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