When I was in school I was taught that the United States had a system of checks and balances where no one branch of the government could devolve into tyranny given the oversight of the other two branches. The three branches (for those who have been “educated” by our current system) are executive, legislative and judicial. Legislative is divided into the House of Representatives and the Senate who must pass identical bills that are signed by the president to become law. The president can veto the bills and it takes a two thirds vote in both houses of congress to override. The congress can pass a bill, the president can sign it but the courts can rule the bill unconstitutional preventing it from becoming law. Yet even the courts can be overridden by the legislature by passing a constitutional amendment that is approved by two thirds of the states.
In reality, we no longer have a system of checks and balances mainly because the legislators in the House and Senate have abdicated their responsibilities to the executive branch. The executive has usurped the power from the congress through the use of executive orders which do not require congressional approval. Presidents now typically ignore the congress when they feel that their wishes will not be put into law. Remember when faced with a republican congress, Obama famously said “I’ve got a pen”? He signed 277 executive orders. Bill Clinton signed 361 and Donald Trump signed 220. Biden has signed 130 thus far. In 2023 he signed 24 and his administrative state added 90,402 pages to the Federal Register.
When Biden first took office, there were a flurry of executive orders as he sought to eradicate the actions taken by Trump. There was the cancelation of the Keystone Pipeline, the stopping of the border wall, and the review of all Trump actions by department and agency heads. Biden then installed pro DEI and LBGTQ policies and aggressively issued rules on climate change including banning internal combustible engines and liquid natural gas. Remember mask wearing, mandatory COVID shots, the Paris Accord, Iran appeasement, immigration, student loan forgiveness and all the rest? But Trump does not get a pass. Remember the Muslim country ban, the shutting down of the economy (with the exception of big corporations) and the tariffs on our allies?
Congress cannot overturn an executive order but they can sue the government stating that the president has exceeded his authority. Please tell me if there are any suits filed by the congress. I can’t find any. However, the states have sued the government with mixed results. Recently a federal judge in Texas found that a rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration was “unauthorized”. The state of Texas brought the suit. The Kansas attorney general and 10 other republican AGs have sued to stop the Biden’s forgiveness of student loan debt.
The private sector can sue as did the steel companies who sued when President Truman ordered the steel mills to be seized by the government during the Korean War. The Supreme Court ruled that Truman had overstepped his authority. I guess the automobile companies could sue the EPA mandate that will ultimately ban gas and diesel vehicles. But the auto actually favor the EPA rule because they can dramatically reduce the amount of labor needed to manufacture automobiles and trucks.
The republicans in congress have abdicated their responsibilities to govern and would rather fight amongst themselves rather than impede Biden’s actions. I believe earlier I called them “gutless”. Perhaps they are hoping that the republican governors and attorney generals will sue the government so that they can continue embarrassing themselves.
I have a suggestion: why not unite against Biden’s efforts to radically change our institutions, his attempts to divide the races via Critical Race Theory and DEI, to radically shrink the American economy with his industrial policy, to flood the country with illegals, to allow males to compete in women’s sports and emasculating our military? I guess the congressional republicans are hoping that Trump is reelected so they won’t have to do anything useful. There is no doubt that Trump spend his first few days in office overturning Biden’s executive orders and having his appointees roll back the rules of the EPA and the other federal agencies. It seems that the only hope of slowing down the runaway train of climate hysteria and federal wokeness will be Donald Trump. Let’s hope that he is not so caught up in payback and retribution that he will forget to govern.
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As we are all witnessing, time waits for no one – and the debt in the trillions is a scourge on our elected Democrat officials who don’t even have the brains of a ninny – bar none.
How many of these ninny Democrats will be re-elected in the cheated election this time?
On the TV program “Hee Haw,” they would always have someone do a skit that included the song “Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me.” The words went like this:
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me!
We figured she was rich, loaded to the hilt.
And we figured she had class like the Vanderbilts.
‘Cause we had heard for years how she was so well reared.
How was we to know they mean the way she was built?
Gloom, despair, and agony on me!
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.”
To a great degree, that could be sung today in America as a result of leftist policies advanced by Obama and Biden. We have never lived in a more gloomy time in American history, not even in the Great Depression, the Civil War, or any other wars we have faced.
We are there because we have a President driving the train down the path of unchecked spending, pushing us nearer and nearer to the point of no return and bankruptcy. The Country Group, The Tractors, has a song called “Badly Bent,” in which it talks about money problems, and one portion of it says:
“I am just a country boy
Tryin’ to make some sense.
But I’d like to ask the Congress
I’d like to ask the President.
Can you tell me where
All the money went.
We might not be broke
But we are badly bent.”
We are not just bent; we are broke with a Capital “B.” If I am wrong, and Mr. Biden and the Leftist’s desire is not to totally destroy our system of Capitalism; they are the most misguided people ever to serve in public office. The President is supposed to be committed to protecting and defending the Constitution and working for America!
However, Barack Obama made us aware in his book “Dreams From My Father,” what their real desire is with regard to this country. It is always wise to consider who has the ear of politicians and influence them. The philosophy, ideology, and agenda of those always reveal the truth about purpose.
The president and those in Congress must swear or affirm their commitment to protect and defend the Constitution of these United States. Tragically, some of them seem to be on a campaign to destroy this country and our Constitution. In my mind, that is more than a minor issue; it is treasonous and even terroristic.
I believe we must vote all of them out of office as soon as possible. If we do not send them packing, America, as established by our founders and as we have known, will be a faint memory. Each person can make whatever choices they desire, but if we look at the facts, we will realize that the use of “race,” “class envy,” and “illogical ideology” drives them and divides this nation.
They use whatever is available to achieve their purposes. The Leftists only care about the fulfillment of their Agenda. That agenda is the same as the proponents of the United Nations Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development Initiative.
Once again, I call on each one to keep the Left’s expressed and demonstrated objectives in mind as they vote in any election. Our Republic, Freedom, and Liberty are hanging in the balance. We will decide our fate!
