To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.
1) In our previous post, we discussed the reality that city politicians across the country erred so fatally when they decided to defund their police forces as a result of the George Floyd murder in Minneapolis. As a result, their police forces were given fewer resources to combat crime. This has led to more crime and to manpower shortages as police officers leave the force because of their hindered ability to do their jobs, because of less resources and verbal abuse and disrespect they received from city politicians.
Unfortunately, this short sighted defund the police movement has led to an explosion in urban crime and the deaths of unknown numbers of city residents. Nowhere was this defund the police rhetoric and action more obvious than in New York City. NYC’s mayor, Bill de Blasio has shown probably more contempt for his police force than in any other city in the country. He has berated them, belittled them, and has significantly defunded their budgets, all of which has led to an explosion in crime in his city like never seen in recent decades.
Now, all of a sudden, after the damage has been done, citizens have been killed mauled, and robbed, he finally sees how stupid his actions were:
- After threatening to cut the NYPD annual budget by about $1.5 billion, he is now crowing about how a new, $105 million NYPD precinct building for Queens is going forward AFTER he eliminated the project last year in the fever of defund the police hysteria.
- In a kiss up to Black Lives Matter and such, de Blasio proposed that a community center be built on the location and not a new NYPD police precinct.
- He proposed this community center despite the fact that the mostly black residents of the neighborhood desperately wanted more police presence since they were ones bearing the brunt of the local criminal elements.
- Another example of politicians kowtowing to the media and the more vocal demands of a minority set of voices. Unfortunately delaying the start of this effort probably resulted in more crime and more suffering of local residents, a secondary concern of a mayor and city political class who were more concerned about form and media preening than substance and providing a basic government service, protecting the lives of their constituents.
2) The Hatch Act is a very good Federal Government law in that it prohibits government officials from promoting political candidates and causes when in their official government capacity. This helps prevent government resources and pressure from impacting political races and actions.
Unfortunately, it is rarely used to actually punish those that violate the letter and spirit of the law. A great example of this was when Kathleen Sebelius, a Cabinet member under Obama, endorsed a Democrat for lieutenant governor of North Carolina.
The Office of Special Counsel said she made the political remarks in her capacity as a federal employee and thus violated the Hatch Act. Of course, as what usually happens with members of the American political class when they violate existing laws, nothing happened because of her law breaking.
And now Biden has a similar problem and another Hatch Act violation:
- According to Politico, the office of Special Counsel has determined that HUD leader Marcia Fudge did indeed violate the Hatch Act when she expressed an opinion on an Ohio Senate race while acting in her official government role.
- The violation occurred during an official government press conference when Fudge was asked by a reporter about possible Senate candidates in her home state of Ohio.
- She mentioned that friends of hers, Tim Ryan and Nan Whaley, might be in the running for the Senate seat.
- Since then, both people have made moves to actually enter the race for the Senate.
- Of course, she later apologized for her remarks AFTER she got caught violating the Hatch Act: “I acknowledge that I should have stuck with my first instinct and not answered the question. I take these things seriously and I want to assure the American people that I am focused on meeting the needs of our country.”
- Ana Galindo-Marrone, the chief of Office of Special Counsel’s Hatch Act Unit, released a letter late last week summarizing the office’s findings: “By stating, for example, that ‘we have a good shot at it’ and ‘I believe we can win the Senate race,’ Secretary Fudge showed support for the Democratic Party with respect to the Ohio Senate race while speaking in her official capacity."
Same thought process, different context. You can bet that you and I would be held accountable for violating the law but as always, those in power in the political class get to apologize after the fact and move on with no consequences.
3) The Constitution is pretty clear on how our government is supposed to work:
- Congress passes legislation that funds and directs how those funds should be spent in the annual budget process.
- In theory, at least, their budget decisions should represent the priorities and needs of those that elected them, the voters.
- The budget agreement is then approved by and executed by the executive branch of the government.
- It is called democracy.
- As we all should know, Biden has wasted no time in creating a major humanitarian, drug cartel, and national security problem at the southern border.
- Thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants and criminals have flooded the border areas which has resulted in tens of thousands of children being apprehended at the border with no adult or parent in sight.
- Part of the problem is that drug cartels and criminal enterprises are now locating unaccompanied kids on the border which has tied up Border Patrol resources which in turn has given the cartels and criminal freer reign to do their illegal activities.
- Thus, there are now 20,000 unaccompanied kids in Federal government detention centers, truly a humanitarian disaster, one that Biden created on his own.
- Now to compound his incompetence, he is likely violating the spirit and letter of the Constitution by diverting taxpayer funds that had been properly allocated to protect and aid needy Americans and is inappropriately taking $2 billion to care for these kids.
- Now, I am not saying these kids should not be taken care of but it needs to be done in a Constitutionally viable way, i.e. Congress approves the $2 billion needed as representatives of the voters and the executive branch then uses it to care for the kids.
- The executive branch has no Constitutional authority to move money around from the purposes it was designed for to cover its mistakes.
- Specifically, Biden’s HHS Department has taken over $2 billion that was approved for COVID relief to cover the costs of caring for the illegal immigrant kids.
- According to Politico, the $2 billion was supposed to be used replenish the Strategic National Stockpile with needed personal protective equipment
- Other medical equipment was also to be used for expanded covid testing of Americans: “The redirected funds include $850 million that Congress originally allocated to rebuild the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile, the emergency medical reserve strained by the Covid-19 response. Another $850 million is being taken from a pot intended to help expand coronavirus testing, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.”
Again, the kids need to be taken care of, no question. But there are Constitutional and government budget processes that are in place that were meant to protect our freedom, democracy and safety, and these have all been violated by the Biden administration.
4) How bad of a situation has Biden caused on the border in the few short months since assuming the Presidency? Consider reporting from the Associated press:
- Thousands of children, “from toddlers to teens,” are being housed in shelters across the country, shelters with very little oversight and scrutiny.
- Staff in some of these shelters have eluded FBI background checks so who knows what type of people are overseeing these kids.
- According to the AP, the kids “aren’t guaranteed access to education, recreational opportunities, or legal counsel.”
- Many of the 20,000 or so kids are being housed in “mass shelters” and "are isolated, less supervised and without basic services.”
- Oh, by the way, Vice President Kamala Harris, who Biden assigned to fix the problem he created, has yet to even visit the border and see what these kids are going through, despite having been given the task of fixing this mess over two months ago.
That will do it for today's insanity: chaos on the border, Constitution violations, violations of the law but no legal consequences for government employees, and de Blasio, too late, supports the NYPD police and the residents of Queens.
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