Comments on: Senility is the new “competent enough” – or, who cares whether or not it’s the president who answers that 3 AM call?

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:39:51 +0000

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/04/afts-randi-weingarten-shut-down-on-twitter-cnn-after-falsely-claiming-she-fought-to-reopen-schools/?

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:30:56 +0000

“The country is being run by an unelected cabal.”
Run into the ground, actually.

…As long as we’re talking about “actually”…well, the country was—actually—hijacked by an unelected (and unelectable) cabal.
(But that would make “unelected cabal” more than a bit redundant, wouldn’t it.)

On the other hand, how else would Obama be able to serve four terms?
(After all, the Great Man has been compared to FDR by his falling-over-one-another, fawning media ….)

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:11:42 +0000

well it’s the colonel house argument,

https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1652051928040308737?s=20

By: buster

buster — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:04:42 +0000

The problem with Leonhardt’s argument is that the officials who operate the government in place of the president are not elected. They have no democratic legitimacy on their own, and can’t acquire it vicariosly from a president who is too incapacited to exercise his powers. The statute establishing the line of succession derives its authority from Congress, not the president. The statute doesn’t give executive authority to the national security advisor or the Fed chairman. The country is being run by an unelected cabal.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:48:22 +0000

Build Brezhnev Better.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:28:25 +0000

Certainly Schumer and Pelosi were running Congress, and Schumer still is, but I don’t think anybody really is running the Executive Branch. I certainly don’t believe that Obama is calling the shots. Rather, it seems like the bureaucracy — the permanent government — and the Democrats want the same things, so Biden and his appointees basically let the permanent government have its way.

In the past, and even now when Republicans are in the White House, cabinet level appointees could disagree with their civil service underlings — or they could spur them to action. That doesn’t seem to be the case now. Does anyone think that Buttiegieg and Granholm are really running their departments? They may give out a few trivial suggestions or even general guidelines, but they don’t seem to have much control over what gets done — or doesn’t get done.

An exception may be Mayorkas, who has overridden ICE’s preferences from the very beginning. The White House and Merrick Garland exercise some control over the Justice Department, but the department is all too willing to do their bidding.

Biden was always a party animal, a creature of DC, so I’m not sure how effective a president he would be even if he were in command of all his faculties. The myth is that he’s rooted and grounded in working class Middle America, but it’s only a myth.

By: cb

cb — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:56:31 +0000

Yeah, it’s Val Jar in charge – imo.

Some light required reading (final paragraph): “Sooner or later, they will put these third-world migrants in American uniforms. Then they will be used against the U.S. population. They are coming to take our homes and cars; they are coming to replace us. And our own government is behind it.” https://www.theflstandard.com/federal-government-behind-massive-operation-to-send-illegal-immigrants-into-u-s/

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:06:57 +0000

Leftists would vote for Chairman Mao if they could, dead or alive.
I’m with Mac on this one too, was sure the likes of Susan Rice were the go-between from Barky if even he is pulling the strings.
Maybe it’s hive mind or a cabal who meets every Saturday on a secure channel?

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:43:48 +0000

eastasia criticizing oceania,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/29/north-korea-kim-jong-un-sister-says-joe-biden-is-in-his-dotage-as-she-criticises-nuclear-pact

By: Mike K

Mike K — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:24:48 +0000

Biden has been a liar and crook for 50 years. Were he in full possession of his faculties, I don’t know if things would be better. He changed positions so often that there is no thread of ideology in him. The people running him are so far left that we are seeing disaster coming but half the population, including two of my kids (both lawyers) seem OK with it.