Can the GOP stop Democrats from trashing the country?
Article by John M. Contino in The American Thinker
Can the GOP stop Democrats from trashing the country?
It's a jungle out there, disorder and confusion everywhere.
No one seems to care, but I do. Hey! Who's in charge here?
—Randy Newman
It's
common knowledge that Al Gore invented the internet. And that Barack
Obama invented the Office of President-Elect. Now Joe Biden, by
announcing his intention to run for re-election
in 2024 after only a couple of destructive months in office, has de
facto created the Office of Acting President Emeritus. Another first
for Democrats.
Kamala Harris calls foreign leaders on Biden's behalf. The White House has instructed the media that going forward, they are to refer to the Biden-Harris administration. Jill Biden does more than finish Joe's sentences for him: Biden reportedly consults with and relies on his wife
to a larger degree than any president since Woodrow Wilson, whose wife
Edith effectively took over after Woodrow suffered a debilitating stroke
in 1919.
There were reports in February that several Democrats wished to deprive Biden of sole authority over the nuclear codes. Do we now have a Committee for Commander in Chief?
Behind the scenes, Susan Rice,
with the Pelosi/Schumer tag team out front, wields executive power that
should rightly reside with the president. It's a bit like the 1969
film Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, but with the cast of characters swapping presidential duties instead of spouses.
After
having brazenly installed a feeble, geriatric president through a
dubious (at best) election process, and almost three months after that
mostly peaceful demonstration on January 6, the Democrats still surround
the Capitol grounds with thousands of troops and razor wire
fencing. Are those props — befitting the palace grounds of a tinpot
dictatorship — evidence of the Democrats' insecurity, of their need to
reinforce the notion that they are in charge? Just as Biden does what he's told, so are we to shut up and do as we're told.
The filibuster is racist, didn't you know. Antifa is a myth;
there's no crisis on the border. On and on it goes. Most everything
the Democrats and their media hack enablers say is an affectation and a
canard. Most everything the Dems do is a premeditated attack on their
avowed enemies — namely, anyonewho didn't vote for them. Will the
people get a fair shot at turning the tide in 2022? Not likely,
especially if or when the Dems ram H.R. 1 down our throats.
Against
this pathetic backdrop, with the exception of a few congressmen and
senators, it's shocking how feckless and moribund the Republicans
are. They failed to capitalize on their majorities when they held
them. They must now stop playing paddy-cake and begin pushing back
hard, especially at the state level, by asserting their 10th Amendment
rights through declarations of "sanctuary" status, and by nullifying
unconstitutional power grabs such as federalizing and corrupting the
election process. The First, Second, Fourth, and Tenth Amendments are
under relentless assault. There's not enough time to let this all play
out in the courts, nor can the Roberts Supreme Court be trusted to
uphold the Constitution. If the Republicans go on offense, and start
obstructing and defying the Democrats any way they can, they'll garner
more public support than they can imagine.
The American people never signed up for a cultural revolution. It's Do or Die for the Republican Party.
