August, 2019, Part 2, Politicians Say The Darndest Things: The Idiotic, Delusional, False, and Inane Comments of Joe Biden, Second Set

We have done previous posts under the theme of “politicians say the darndest things.” These posts highlight the idiocy and inane comments that American politicians actually say out loud, which makes us question how broken our political processes have become that people in powerful positions can be so inept and stupid. 

Some of those previous posts include the following links:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2010/10/politicians-say-darndest-things.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-2015-part-1-politicians-say.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-2015-part-2-politicians-say.html

Nancy Pelosi has usually been the star of these posts, having said some of the most out of touch and inane things that any politician has said. But a close second has been former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden. And now that Biden is running for President, it seems that Pelosi’s reign of most inane quote machine is in danger, given some of the most ridiculous statements he has uttered lately:

1) For those younger readers, George Wallace was a Democratic governor of Alabama back in the 1960s. He was a devout racist and segregationist and tried everything possible to oppose integration and the Federal government’s attempts to enforce integration in his state. 

He actually ran for President in 1968 before an attempted assassination attempt took him out of the race. Despite his open and long standing racism, this is what Biden thinks of him: “I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right.”

In this time of heightened sensitivity to race and sex and other politically incorrect subjects, is it really a good idea to glorify a devout segregationist? Honest or stupid? I do not know.

2) Staying with the whole racism angle, consider what many thought was an overt racist statement from Biden: “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” By implication, Biden thinks that only non-white kids are poor and white kids are never poor, stereotyping several major races.

He then tried to get out of the racist statement and just ended up rambling on with very little coherence: “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids. No, I really mean it. But think how we think about it. We think how we’re going to dumb it down. They can do anything anybody else can do, given a shot.”

He continues to dig the racist hole with this follow up statement. Only white kids are wealthy, then there are black kids and brown kids. What a mess.

3) We have often asked the question, after reviewing an inane statement from Nancy Pelosi, what color is the sky in Pelosi’s world? That is how out of touch she seems to be at times, completely out of this world perspective and associated quote.

But we could also ask Biden the same question after he recently uttered this confusing, and impossible, statement: “We choose truth over facts.” Huh? In our world, truth is defined by facts. In what world that Biden refers to are facts and truth disconnected? Makes no sense.

4) At a recent political rally in Iowa, a young lady reporter asked Biden how many sexes there were. Biden first answered the question by stating there are three sexes which, of course, makes no sense. But he then grabbed the young lady by the arm and threateningly told her not to mess with him, a totally inappropriate and un-Presidential move, threatening a young American woman reporter for simply asking a question...to which he gave a stupid answer.

5) Things must be getting a little tense within the Biden campaign, given his gaffes and idiotic comments. How tense? The campaign wheeled out Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, to issue the following scary quote: “So yes, you know, your candidate might be better on, I don’t know, healthcare than Joe is, but you’ve got to look at who’s going to win this election, and maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, ‘OK, I personally like so and so better,’ but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.”

Say what? We have to “swallow a little bit”? Sounds like you have to vote for her husband even if it gags you. Hardly a description of someone who is completely under control and is always lucid, two traits you want in a President.

6) Recently Biden was campaigning in Keene, New Hampshire. But he thought he was in Vermont: “I’ve been here a number of times. The last time I think was all the way back in 2014, but I’ve been here before that. I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?”

If this was the only time that Biden screwed up it would be no big deal. I assume he is traveling a lot and so an isolated mix up is no big deal. Heck, Obama once said he had campaigned in all 57 states. 

But it is one gaffe and inane idea and comment after another, this just geography gaffe makes the pile of screwups a little higher and not unexpected.

7) Biden was Vice President during the Obama years, one of the most lawless and disrespect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights of any other Presidency. We documented the long list of how many times Obama and Biden abused the rule of law in this country in the following post:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2016/11/retro-2-obama-presidency-end-of-error.html

But Biden obviously has a very short memory because at a recent campaign stop in Iowa he issued the following hypocritical statement about the Trump Presidency: “So, folks, think about the Constitution. What was it designed to do? It was designed to separate power so it couldn’t be abused. The Congress is as powerful as the president. The court’s as powerful as the Congress. The president’s as powerful as the court. And what’s this president do? He is engaging in a gigantic abuse of power.”

Seriously Joe? Under you and Obama the Federal government via the IRS denied First Amendment rights to millions of Americans. By tracking and spying on the electronic communications of most Americans you violated the Fourth Amendment. By issuing murder edicts on Americans citizens you deprived those Americans of due process. By ignoring multiple tenets of Obama Care you abused the Constitution. By not enforcing existing laws you violated the Constitution. It was the Obama administration that was a gigantic abuse of power.

Don’t believe me? Consider the opinion of liberal law professor Garrett Epps: “Even for those like me who admire Barack Obama, the constitutional record [of the Obama administration] is disturbingly mixed. Obama leaves the Constitution weaker than at the beginning of his terms.”

So when even legal experts and fans of Obama believe that he and you left the Constitution weaker than before, please do not tell me that Trump is abusing power. You were part of a disgraceful abuse of the rule of law and the Constitution. The country does not need a continuation of abuse that you and Obama started.

Delusional, dishonest, forgetful, inane.This is what is coming out of Biden’s mouth these days, hardly Presidential timber. The country needs more than what Biden is saying.

But the sad thing is that it is not only Biden that is saying wacky, untruthful, and dangerous things as you will see in our next post.

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Supreme Court Rewrites Obama Care Legislation, Destroys the Consitution and Rule Of Law In the Process

Democracy in America died today when the Supreme Court ruled that although an existing  law explicitly states something cannot be done, the executive branch can act like it can be done without first obtaining Congressional approval. Today the Supreme Court decided that it somehow had the authority to rewrite current law without the approval of the Congressional or Executive branches of government, a clear violation of the Constitution. 

So in the future, when a future President unilaterally decides that an unborn child takes precedent over that silly Roe vs. Wade decision or unilaterally decides that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” needs to be reinstated or unilaterally decides that the  Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act are too old to be relevant anymore, understand that the path for these unilateral actions was forged today when the Supreme Court, in concert with the present administration, arbitrarily changed standing law without input from the people or their elected representatives. In the process, this country’s  rule of law and the Constitutional separation of powers has been crushed. 

As Judge Scalia wrote in the dissenting opinion, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’” Or to put it in Orwellian terms, we have fallen down the rabbit hole of Big Brother where, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” God help us.


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Part 5, August 2013 Obama Care: How The Washington Political Class Has Broken The Law To Take Care Of Themselves...At Our Expense

Over the previous four posts we have reviewed the latest disasters and fiascos that have continued to develop as a result of Obama Care. American workers seeing their work hours getting cut, Americans’ opinions of the legislation continuing to get more and more negative, and the infrastructure for implementing the law looking more and more that it will be an epic disaster and an identity thief’s paradise.

But possibly the biggest insult to all Americans is that the President, in cahoots with every politician in Congress, has recently arranged for members of Congress and their staffs to avoid the legal and financial requirements laid out in the law. This is a blatant violation of explicit language in the law that really should be an impeachable offense. 

In a nation that thinks it is run by the rule of law and representative government, no politician, even the President, has the power to overturn an existing law that was properly enacted. This is nothing more than selfish politicians taking care of themselves and their friends and work colleagues. 

This just another example of the “Hunger Games” mentality that exists within the political class in this country, where they get to do what they want for their own personal enrichment. Meanwhile, they stick us with the tab, whether it is an oppressive tax burden or oppressive laws like Obama Care that will negatively effect just about every American.

But rather than have me try to explain why this action is so despicable, let me step aside and let a gentleman named Michael G. Cannon explain how bad and insulting this action is. This article originally appeared in the online version of the National Review and was reprinted by the Cato Institute on its website.

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Congress’s Obamacare Waiver

By Michael F. Cannon 

This article appeared in National Review (Online) on August 6, 2013. 

America has a two-party system. But it’s not Republicans versus Democrats. It’s the ruling class — Republicans and Democrats — against everyone else. Consider how President Obama just gave Congress its very own Obamacare waiver.

Obamacare includes a provision that should cost each member of Congress and each staffer $5,000 to $11,000 per year. Needless to say, the ruling class was not pleased.

Congress wasn’t about to try to exempt itself from this provision explicitly, though. If John Q. Congressman voted to give himself an Obamacare waiver that his constituents don’t get, he wouldn’t be John Q. Congressman much longer. What’s an aristocrat to do?
“President Obama is buying votes from members of Congress — with stolen money.”

On July 30, I predicted that, even though he had no authority to do so, President Obama would waive that provision at taxpayers’ expense. On August 1, he ignobly obliged the aristocracy by decreeing we peasants give each member and staffer $5,000 or $11,000, depending on whether they want self-only or family coverage. It’s good to be king.

The president’s supporters, like courtiers of old, are trying to quell a peasant uprising by denying there were any special favors. The denials ring hollow.

Obamacare imposes two costs on members of Congress and their staff. First, it kicks them out of their current health plans, leaving them to buy coverage on Obamacare’s health-insurance “exchanges.” Second, it makes no provision for the federal government to keep paying $5,000 or $11,000 toward the cost of their insurance as the Treasury does today. 

The second cost is by far the larger one; it amounts to a pay cut of $5,000 or $11,000. Many staffers were threatening to quit or retire early.

When the president’s supporters claim that Congress isn’t being exempted, they mean that Obama didn’t exempt them from Cost No. 1. Which is true. But he did exempt them from Cost No. 2.
Rescinding that pay cut may or may not have been the right thing to do. 

But it’s still a break that ordinary Americans like Kevin Pace don’t get. Pace is an adjunct music professor at Northern Virginia Community College. To avoid penalties under Obamacare, his employer cut his hours — sticking Pace with an $8,000 pay cut.
Supporters say President Obama merely held Congress harmless. Exactly. Kevin Pace and countless others like him aren’t being held harmless, because they’re not members of Congress. As Kevin Pace put it, “This isn’t right on any level.”

Things would be unseemly enough if Congress’s Obamacare waiver were legal. But experts say the president had no authority to grant it.

That didn’t stop even Republicans from praising him, however. Tin-eared Representative Chris Stewart (R., Utah) gushed: 

“There’s no question it was the right thing to do. Not just for me, but for my staff. Heavens, I have staff who don’t make much money. This would be a really big bite for them.”
Congressman, you also have constituents who don’t make much money, and who can’t make it appear out of thin air. Enjoy your waiver.

How was I able to predict the president would grant illegal subsidies to members of Congress? He’s a repeat offender.
Obamacare actually kicked members of Congress out of their current health plans and imposed that $5,000 to $11,000 pay cut immediately upon enactment in 2010. But President Obama just ignored that part of the law. He let members and staff stay in their current health plans and kept the taxpayer money flowing in their direction.

I predicted President Obama would give illegal health-insurance subsidies to members of Congress because he is already in his fourth year of doing it.

Pretty much all Americans can point to some part of Obamacare that they hate. Seniors hate the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which even Howard Dean calls “a health-care rationing body.”

Unions, teacher assistants, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and other school employees hate how the law is cutting their pay. Private-sector unions despise the “Cadillac tax” that forces them to fund subsidies their members don’t receive. Young adults hate the penalties for not buying health insurance. Okay, everybody hates those. In fact, a majority of Americans oppose the entire law.
But only Congress gets relief. Why?

Simple. President Obama doesn’t want Congress to reopen Obamacare. A significant share of congressional Democrats just voted to delay the individual mandate. With once-loyal Democrats now upset over how the law hurts them personally, who knows what else Congress would discard?

President Obama circumvented a potential legislative defeat by giving each member and staffer thousands of taxpayer dollars he had no authority to touch. He’s buying votes from members of Congress — with stolen money, no less.

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Very well said and just another insult thrown into our faces from a political class more worried about their own well being than the burdens they impose on us and the major issues of our times that they never resolve.

Given that the “rule of law” seems to be lost on the current set of low performing politicians in Washington, may we encourage you and your families and friends to join our grass roots movement to impose term limits on all Federal politicians, a movement that would rid us of these types of insults to our intelligence and our wallets:

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Democratic Party Politicians - Destroying The Rule of Law, Inviting Tyranny

I usually do not go after only a specific party within the overall political class. I view members of both major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, as being one species, a species that exists not for the betterment of the country and the citizens in our country but who exist to maximize their own personal gain, compensation, and power.

However, I have come across a dangerous trend in the fight for freedom in America and the examples I keep finding are usually associated with Democratic politicians. I have looked for similar behavior from Republicans but it is either not out there in the same intensity or the Republicans are better at covering their tracks.

The basic and troubling conclusion I come to is that these Democrats appear to think that they are above the rule of law in this country. The United States has existed and thrived over the past two hundred years plus because we have established institutions of laws and processes that help protect our freedom from tyranny and the arbitrary actions of a small group of leaders. Without rule of law, we are subject to the whims and prejudices of whoever happens to end up in the ruling class.

Consider the following examples that support this conclusion:

1) If an ordinary American, i.e. a non-politician, was walking down the street and as a result of being asked a question, verbally and then physically assaulted the question poser, that American would likely be arrested for assault. Apparently, Congressman Bob Etheridge in 2010 felt that he was above that kind of treatment. When approached in a non-violent and non-threatening way by a young journalist, he verbally berated the young man and then grabbed him physically, aggressively holding the journalist against his will as he continued his verbal assault.

If the Congressman did not want to answer the question, he could have ignored the journalist. If he did not want to answer the question at that point in time, he could have had the journalist call his office at a later time. He did not have to get physical and verbally abusive. This is usually a clear cut case of assault but I guess that law does no apply to Democratic Congressmen and women. The YouTube video of the encounter is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDukm1ITj7M

2) Most Americans understand that the guiding principle of law in this country is the U.S. Constitution. The founding fathers were careful to put restrictions on government and the politicians that run government in order to protect the interests and freedom of all Americans. That is why we have probably been the freest country on earth since the nation was founded.

However, Democratic Congressman Peter Stark apparently never go the memo. At one of his town hall meetings last year, he made the incredible comment that that the Federal government could pretty much do anything it wanted to do. Whoa! This attitude does not seem to jive with the concepts of limited power laid out in the U.S. Constitution.

What he was really saying is that the political class can pretty much do anything it wants. How sad that this person is actually a sitting member of the U.S. Congress. If he thinks that he and the four hundred or so others in the U.S. Congress can do anything they want without restrictions, then we as a democracy are finished. The encounter with a voter where he stated this unbelievable statement is on the YouTube video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1-eBz8hyoE

3) But it is not just Washington politicians that seem driving to destroy the rule of law. In the Midwest, Indiana state senate Democrats and Wisconsin state senate Democrats have fled their state legislatures in a first time event to usurp democracy by not reporting to work.

Used to be in this country that you ran for office, campaigned, and then served in the legislature by protecting the rights and interests of your constituents through debating the facts and issues. After debating the facts and issues, you would then vote on legislation that you may or may not favor and which may or may not pass. Rather than honor this time tested, legal approach, these cowards in both states have fled their states in order to stop the process which is set in law.

If they are upset with what is being proposed, they have two legitimate options. One, they should stay in the state and in legislative session and fight for what they think is right, like legislators have done for over two hundred years. If they lose the debate, so be it, it is called democracy. Second, if they are that upset with what is being proposed, they should have done a better job in the elections. The people have spoken via the ballot box, these Democrats should have acted like adults and accepted the situation.

What if Congressional Republicans had fled to Canada to avoid the passage of Obama Care? You would have heard the Democrats whining 24  hours a day. The rule of laws is simple: you have elections, the election winners represent the voters, and you maturely go about doing the best job for your voters even if you are in a losing battle. You do not regress to kindergarten mode, stamp your feet, and run out of the state. The rule of law is being violated.

If allowed to happen these two times with these Democrats, you know the Republicans will do the same thing when presented the opportunity and now we have chaos. No laws get passed, no issues get addressed because we have allowed these Democrats to behave in such a way that they undermine the rule of law.

4) Last year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was testifying before a Senate committee on immigration issues. During that session, Holder stated that he and the Justice Department would likely file a law suit to stop the implementation of the recently passed immigration law in the state of Arizona.

When a Senator asked if the Attorney General had actually read the ten page or so Arizona law, he astonishingly admitted that he had not taken the time to read it. Unbelievable, the top law enforcement official in the country is about to file suit over a document that he had not even read. Talk about a blatant disregard for the rule of law, let's just sue over something that I have not even taken the time to review.

5) Which brings us to the biggest offender of them all, President Obama. If the President of the United States will not support the rule of law and Constitutional processes, then who is to say anyone else in the whole country will respect and follow our laws and traditions of governing. Consider:

- Despite having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in his first two years in office, he was unable to even bring his Cap and Trade energy legislation to the floor of either house, never mind getting it debated or passed. It did not even get in the door. Given that the Democrats were in charge everywhere, it should give you an indication of how horrid and inane his whole cap and trade bill was.

Now that the Republicans rule the House, virtually assuring that his cap and trade bill will never make it to the House floor, he has decided to just bypass the entire Congressional process and start implementing his priorities via the Environment Protection Agency. Forget about debate and compromise and facts, he just wants his way and will do whatever he wants to do get it implemented.

This is  not how the process is supposed to work. Congress puts the legislation together after debating the issues and facts and then passes it to the President to sign into law. End running Congress is the same as end running both the Constitution and the rule of law.

- Bloomberg online reported on February 3, 2011 that a Federal judge ruled that the Obama administration was in contempt of court when it continued its moratorium on deep water oil drilling despite the moratorium having been already struck down in court. The court found that the Interior Department acted in "determined disregard" in the matter.

The judge found that the administration had rescinded the original ban that the court had thrown out and had instituted a second ban that was really nothing much different then the first, illegal ban. The judge in the case ruled that second ban still violated Federal law and that "such dismissive conduct... provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt." Very strong words of disgust with the Obama administration. The judge also made the Federal government pay the legal fees of those that brought the suit.

It is looking like typical kindergarten stuff again here, similar to the immature behavior of the state senators discussed above. The administration got its hand slapped once, did not like or respect the judge's decisions and in a contemptible way, just did the same act again. There is a reason we have a judicial system, it is to keep politicians like this from violating rights and laws that are on the books. Apparently, this tradition of judicial responsibility is lost on the Obama administration.

- And most recently, and most egregiously, the President unilaterally announced that his administration and his Justice Department will no longer enforce an existing, fifteen year old Federal law, the so-called DOMA or Defense of Marriage Act. This legislation was signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s and it allowed states to not recognize gay marriages performed and valid in other states and it defined marriage as a union of a man and woman.

No matter where you stand on this issue, the fact is it is the law of the land. The President, via the Justice Department, has the duty and responsibility to enforce the law of the land, no matter how distasteful. The law has not been overturned by any court, up to and including the Supreme Court. It is Obama's legal duty to enforce it.

However, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, "The President has also concluded that Section 3 of DOMA, as applied to legally married same-sex couples, fails to meet the standard and is therefore unconstitutional. Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department (of Justice) not to defend the statue in such cases."

Unbelievable, the President has no standing, under the Constitution, to decide what is and what is not Constitutional. It is called the rule of law. This law is legit, it is on the books, and he has no right or power to disobey it. According to the Constitution, only the Supreme Court can make the decision of what is and what is not Constitutional.

When the President decides that he is all knowing and all powerful, then the cause of liberty and freedom, the system of constitutional checks and balances, our whole way of living together as a nation, is severely undermined. I disagree with the whole concept of DOMA but I believe that the President's brazen behavior in this matter is an impeachable offense.

Now before my liberal and Democratic friends and family members jump down my throat, consider what could happen if we allow Obama to get away with this disregard for our rules and laws. Does that mean that:

• President Palin can decide that abortion clinic bombings are no longer a felony?
• President Huckabee can decide that Roe vs. Wade was merely a suggestion and that he can declare it unconstitutional?
• President Gingrich can decide that the EPA really serves no purpose and can be disbanded without Congressional or judicial review?

If Obama can get away with disregarding the other two pieces of our government structure, as laid out in the Constitution, then we are on our way down a very slippery slope into tyranny. When one individual decides what is right and fair and what is not, disregarding the lawful institutions that have served us so well, then that leader is no better than Mubark, Putin, Chavez or dozens of other tyrants around the world that rule under emergency decrees that only they can decide what is right and what is wrong. Is that how America wants to be ruled, as Egypt was ruled by Mubarak?

Even if what Obama did is not an impeachable offense, the reason he is doing this is just as despicable. DOMA has been in place for about fifteen years. It is not new. If he felt is was unconstitutional then he should have voided it the first day in office, the law has not changed since then.

However, what has changed is that we are that much closer to the 2012 election cycle. This is either a pompous act by an ego driven President who thinks he is above the law or just a typical Chicago politician that misuses the power of government to keep himself elected or both. In any case, his actions, and the actions of the other Democrats listed above, undercut the concept of a liberty based government that rules the land under carefully crafted institutions and processes.

Once those time tested processes and institutions are undermined, then as a nation we are nothing more than Libya, Egypt, Russia and Venezuela because without the Constitution and all that it supports, the only thing left is tyranny.






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