Federal Clown Judges

Activist Federal Judges have been a burr under President Trump's saddle for the past few months. These black-robed clowns have thus far restricted the President's agenda for illegal immigration enforcement, Just recently another Obama sycophant lawyer-campaign bundler-turned-judge has stymied an attempt to freeze federal funds to jurisdictions that violate federal laws.

There is a way to wipe the smirk off these clowns. The American Thinker posts the solution:

Congress can, under their broad authority to govern the inferior courts, strip the federal courts of their jurisdiction over executive action when the president is exercising the statutorily granted power to suspend or modify entry to the United States. Simply put, Congress established the lower courts and can modify (even remove) the jurisdiction of those courts. 

This can be done through the same administrative rules and procedures by which court districts are routinely drawn or modified. This means streamlined committee handling and rapid implementation. Indeed, there is precedent for this. The "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996," signed into law by Monica Lewinsky's old boyfriend, stripped jurisdiction to challenge certain actions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) (the forerunner of today's ICE) from federal courts.

It already has been done. Now if Congress would only get up off its ass...

Thumbing His Nose At Congress, The Constitution And We The People

According to the Wall Street Journal, as he met with the idiot lapdogs of his administration, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said, “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation to make sure that we’re providing Americans with the help that they need. I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone. I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions ... that move the ball forward.”

TWMDCO repeatedly demonstrates a brazen disregard for the separation of powers and how legislation is supposed to be enacted.  He is the sole owner of unenforced “red lines” and a vast succession of broken promises.  This threat promise, I fear, is one he will keep that will imperil the democratic process.

Making mincemeat of the United States Constitution, The Insufferable Airhorn obviously studied constitutional law not to understand its precepts or uphold its laws but to evade them at every turn.

The King has spoken.

The Fierce Urgency Of Now

I foolishly believed that a government shutdown would never materialize.  Yes, I was naive.

I know many believe that the partial government shutdown proved that federal workers can disappear without being missed.  I would have to agree with you.  None of the furloughed workers in my agency were missed.  They were genuinely non-essential.

Now, we are learning that some federal workers applied for, and received, jobless benefits while they were furloughed.  Some of them will likely get paid twice for not working.  According to the Labor Department, several states are expected to allow these workers to keep both their jobless benefits and the back pay.  Must be nice.

Unlike those furloughed federal workers, I am considered “key and essential personnel and a first responder” and I was ordered to report for duty each and every day of the shutdown without being paid.

I am furious that the furloughed workers will receive back pay for what amounts to a paid vacation.  They didn’t work one day, one hour, one minute, one second during the shutdown.  I think it is an outrage.

For sixteen days, my bills continued to come in my mailbox with the expectation that they be paid in full and on time.

I have spent the last few years of my life working feverishly to become debt-free in preparation for my “golden years”.  With only nine months left before I can retire, my home is paid off and my car is eleven years old.

I pay for everything with cash, check or debit card. 

On October 9^th, a memorandum for distribution from the Chief Human Capital Officer was issued.

“On October 1, 2013, many federal agencies were partially shut down due to a lapse of appropriations.  As a result, many Department of _________________ employees were subject to furlough, which places them in a non-pay status until Congress passes an appropriation.  In addition, even these employees who are reporting to work to perform excepted functions will not receive pay until an appropriation is passed by Congress.” 

“Because these employees will not receive pay during the lapse in appropriations, some of our employees may have difficulty in timely meeting their financial obligations.  This lapse in appropriation is expected to be a temporary situation and one that is beyond our employees’ control.  We appreciate your organization’s understanding toward _________________ employees until this situation is resolved.” 

“Our employees will be returned to pay status as soon as possible,  We hope this letter helps explain the furlough process for our _________________ employees, and we extend our thanks for your patience and compassion towards our employees during this time when they may be negatively impacted by the lapse in appropriation.”

Seriously?  How many creditors do you think would respond compassionately to a bullshit letter like this? 

I didn’t apply for jobless benefits, I didn’t ask my friends to lend me money and I didn’t apply for a loan to sustain me during the shutdown.

Last Monday, on my day off, I decided to sell some of my silver coins and old gold jewelry in order to pay for the replacement of the evaporation leak detection pump that was causing an idiot light to remain illuminated on the dashboard.  That light would prevent my car from passing its safety inspection which is required in my state.

This year, my state requires that your vehicle property tax be paid simultaneously with your vehicle registration renewal—none of which can happen without passing the safety inspection first.

The week before, I was driving home from work when my power steering gave out.  Over the course of the last two weeks I’ve spent a little more that $600 to keep my car running so I can get back and forth to work.

I was planning on selling some of my cherished baseball memorabilia today had the shutdown continued.  I’ll hold those things in reserve if, on January 15, 2014, the spittle-laced barbs of the children of The Beltway return to their sickening antics.

Randy-g recently posted a comment saying he hoped “all is well…You are missed.”  I guess Randy noticed that it’s been two weeks since I last posted something and wanted me to know that he was a teeny bit concerned.

I’ve eaten more than my fill of bologna sammiches and PB&Js.  I’m sick of drinking just plain water.  I’ve cut corners in every way I know how.  I’m going to make it, but honestly, this has taken a toll on me.

I haven’t slept well because of the worry.  When I have slept, I’ve had nightmares.  All in all, I’m pretty lucky because the Good Lord provided a way for me to make it through all this.  I am thankful and humbled by His blessings.

One final thought…I despise this Congress whose indifference to how I and others may have suffered through their stupidity and whose only thought is to orate in sound bites suitable for consumption on television and I despise the mainstream media which ignores the decay of a free society.

I am reminded of the sagacious words of Cicero, one of Rome’s greatest orators:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” 

“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.” 

“He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. A traitor is the plague.”

Belly Laughs Emanate Throughout The World’s Capitals At Our Feckless Community Organizer

On Saturday, The Insufferable Airhorn was scheduled to speak to the nation and the world about the situation in Syria from the Rose Garden at 1:15 PM.  He was 20 minutes late, but then he’s always late ala Billy Jeff who seemed to be busy with blue dresses and cigars when he occupied the Oval Office.

Roughly half-an-hour after repeating his fine-tuned sense of moral outrage he left the White House for a round of golf accompanied by VPOTUS and Marvin Nicholson.

By postponing military action until Congress gives him the authorization to strike Assad’s regime is, to me, a political ploy to give him cover for his blustering gaffe about a red line.

Democratic pollster and one-time Bill Clinton advisor, Doug Schoen, writing at Forbes asserted that “the President’s move was calculated to force responsibility on a reluctant Congress and to play to 80% of the American people who have said in polls that they are against intervention in Syria, that does not mean that the US is offering anything but a confused image of our mission in the world to both our allies and foes.”

Schoen continues, “Thus, in the short term the President may have managed to escape from the political quandary he faces. But in the longer term, America looks weaker, feckless and more uncertain.”

To prove Schoen’s point, the day after the Rose Garden speech, a front-page article in Syria’s state-run newspaper, Al-Thawra, called his decision to seek congressional approval “the start of the historic American retreat.”

On Thursday and Friday of this week in St. Petersburg, Russia President McBombypants will meet with Vladimir Putin for the G20 Summit.  If you’ll remember, he called Putin “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” during the G8 Summit in Ireland where the world took notice of the icy meeting between the two.

Reuters reports that the former KGB spy referred “ironically to Obama as a Nobel Peace laureate” describing U.S. global policy as a failure.

This president’s handling of the Syrian crisis showcases his every weakness in foreign policy and portends an emerging strategic calamity.  A war in the heart of the Middle East where al-Qaeda is far more active in Syria than it is in Libya could spill over into Turkey and Jordan and prove perilous to our ally in the region, Israel.

Reuters reported at 9:02 PM Sunday evening that the USS Nimitz strike group has been rerouted to the Arabian Sea for possible help with Syria.

Nobody knows what’s going to happen, but it is clear to this observer that prayers for our military are in order.

RT @KurtSchlichter: Leftists, feel free to send your sons & daughters into harm's way so the President doesn't look bad. #caring
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) September 2, 2013

In case anyone needs a reminder of what a real man in the Oval Office looks like when dealing with barbarians here is the epitome: 

I Think The Word You’re Looking For Is…

Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) joined the Congress in 1993.  Representing California’s 6^th District, Woolsey has always been on the left-most wing of the Democratic Party.

Currently co-chairing the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she has been passed over for prominent committee assignments and leadership positions within the Democratic Party because of her liberal voting record and disagreements with party leadership.

This is the same useful idiot, who in March 2011, said that the troop redeployment in Afghanistan for which General David Petraeus was in charge wasn’t happening rapidly enough.  Woolsey said, “General Petraeus is giving us the Charlie Sheen counter-insurgency strategy, which is to give exclusive interviews to every major network, and to keep saying 'we're winning' and hope the public actually agrees with you."

On June 27, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that Woolsey won’t be seeking re-election at the end of her term.

On Thursday, December 1, 2011, our gal Lynn pulled out a Washington Post crossword puzzle during a debate on the House floor.  The Post noted that she seemed at ease in front of the camera.

Woolsey spokesman Bart Acocella confirmed that she was indeed crossword puzzling and arrogantly added that “she detected an error.”

Lynn, do you know a four-letter word referring to a woman that ends in ‘unt’?

See the video here.