tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066062120776667625.post1553587695790222271..comments2024-03-27T15:31:49.368-07:00Comments on American Politics: Interesting times.Twinsdadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768095454310182677noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066062120776667625.post-49577280160355004332015-12-22T05:30:44.013-08:002015-12-22T05:30:44.013-08:00That the people would accept the president making ...That the people would accept the president making laws he wants via Executive Orders and refusing to enforce laws which is what he signed up for reprehensible. <br />At one time not to long ago people would have been outraged and demanded he go. Today we are a fat, dumb happy people watching our imported TV's eating our junk food all compliments of the same government.<br />Few people care or even know the president is outside the scope of his power per the constitution. The dumbing down of America continues.loumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04882146154150499756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066062120776667625.post-69826118284368578302015-12-21T23:59:54.176-08:002015-12-21T23:59:54.176-08:00America is under attack most notably by people in ...America is under attack most notably by people in America that call themselves moderates; people who are willing to find a middle ground in anything even though 1) the best answer may not and most often is not in the middle and 2) more than willing to compromise on issues taken on (taken over) by the national government by way of precedent, court stacking or executive action in direct contravention of any reasonable reading of the constitution. The words enumerated powers are 100% superfluous in today’s world yet people continue to talk about compromise… you cannot compromise over something that should never be discussed in the first place and you cannot discuss something unless it is allowed for in the constitution… the constitution has a mechanism for decisions so sweeping as to change the character of the country.<br /><br />It is perfectly reasonable that people over time might want a heavily socialist state but those desires for state interference and control should be reflected in the constitution. Compromise is a wonderful thing but you can’t and shouldn’t compromise over something that shouldn’t even be up for discussion… Anything else is an erosion of the rule of law.<br /><br />First progressives sought powers within the social arena that had no place in national government. Having gotten away with that, creation of war time presidents like Wilson or FDR all the time was inevitable….<br />TheScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18427002288730961167noreply@blogger.com