VDH - Will Democracy Die in November?

[George K]

After all what might happen?

Consequently, will a Republican Senate simply refuse to confirm Biden’s ultra-left appointments and judges, on the theory they will inevitably do the damage of a Merrick Garland or Alejandro Mayorkas or prove sanctimonious nincompoops like a Pete Buttigieg or Xavier Becerra?

Will the Republicans subpoena an array of left-wing activists and Democratic functionaries? Will jail sentences await any who retry the Eric Holder gambit of congressional defiance?

Will they adopt the January 6 committee protocols?

That is, will Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announce he is following the precedents of Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and therefore reluctantly must:

• Automatically deny “extremists,” such as members of “the squad,” from any congressional committee appointments;
• Sometimes veto any Democrat minority leader’s recommendations for House committee assignments;
• Run simultaneous congressional investigations of 1) politicized leadership at the wayward FBI and Department of Justice; 2) the labyrinth of conflicts of interest within our federal health bureaucracy, starting with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci; 3) the tax liabilities, false statements, and sources of income of the Biden family; 4) “insurrections,” starting with the role of social media, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter during the 120 days in 2020 of uninterrupted rioting, looting, and arson.

Undertake a real probe of the entire January 6 riot and its aftermath, using newly inherited operating procedures to subpoena high-ranking bureaucrats, left-wing pundits, Democratic National Committee operatives and elected officials to discover: 1) why the breakdown in Capitol Hill police security; 2) why the suppression of information about the officer killing of Ashli Babbitt, and the death from natural causes of Officer Brian Sicknick; 3) why all videos, emails, and communications concerning the riot have not been released; 4) what was the role, if any, of FBI informants; 5) why were dozens of the accused held without bail, without charges filed, and subject to nonstop jail harassment?

Would Democrats—if they were Republicans in January 2023—vote to end the filibuster?

Will Joe Biden, who all summer long blasted the filibuster as a racist relic, flip in 2023 and claim it is the bastion of the republic when the Democrats are in the senate minority?

Will Democrats object if the Republican House becomes impeachment-hungry, following the 2019-2021 precedent?

Is the rule now established that an unpopular president should face first-term impeachment when he loses the House?

Or is the new legacy automatic impeachment when a president clearly warps the national interest to further his own political viability—such as ruining relations with Saudi Arabia while draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a last-ditch effort to avoid a midterm wipeout?

Or is impeachment warranted when a president does not faithfully execute the laws, such as destroying the entire corpus of federal immigration law to enhance a future political constituency?

Does impeachment now extend to former presidents as private citizens? Should Joe Biden expect an impeachment writ while retired to his Delaware retreat?

Will impeachment include cabinet officials such as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his open border, or Attorney General Merrick Garland for unleashing the FBI against political enemies? Will the petty become institutionalized, such as Kevin McCarthy scowling and tearing up one of Biden’s rambling and incoherent State of the Union addresses in front of cameras on national television?

Will the Congress call in Ivy-League mental health professionals to tele-diagnose Joe Biden as they clamor for 25th-Amendment investigations and demand a presidential Montreal Cognitive Assessment?

Will Biden be subpoenaed to testify before a House congressional committee investigating the Biden quid pro quos and his own former brag about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who apparently got too rambunctious in investigating Burisma?

[Horace]

Good piece, from which our left leaning members could learn a great deal.

[taiwan_girl]

@Horace said in VDH - Will Democracy Die in November?:

Good piece, from which our left leaning members could learn a great deal.

I think what it is saying is that both sides are more alike than they will admit. Maybe not in their policy's, but in their actions.

[Horace]

@taiwan_girl said in VDH - Will Democracy Die in November?:

@Horace said in VDH - Will Democracy Die in November?:

Good piece, from which our left leaning members could learn a great deal.

I think what it is saying is that both sides are more alike than they will admit. Maybe not in their policy's, but in their actions.

That was the rhetorical angle of the piece, yes. But it was less about equating both sides, than it was about equating the things the left fears the right will do, with what the left does. That’s actually a point I’ve made here on TNCR before, though I zoomed out and generalized. If you want to gauge the limits of someone’s reaction to a perceived threat, just watch how they characterize the threat. They will do at least that much, and also probably a little bit more, just to be on the safe side. When the left perceived an existential threat in Trump and his administration, all options were on the table. There was precious little planning for the cleanup effort to remove that crap from the table. Little thought indeed to whether that stuff would become a permanent table fixture. Sorry lefties but that existential threat card cannot be played for free. You chose not to be adults about a fair election result in 2016, now live in your world. You’re the ones who demonstrably can’t handle it.