Posted on 02/10/2025 6:41:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
"This feels like a national exorcism." — Charlie Kirk.
“It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE” — Bill Ackman.
I’m so glad that The New York Times explained what Kendrick Lamar was up to in his Superbowl half-time act because all I could make out was a grown man dressed-up like an eight-year-old hollering nursery rhymes in front of a flash-mob. Apparently, KL is engaged in a feud with another rapper named Drake, whom KL styles as a child molester. So, you see, the whole thing was just a bit of wholesome family entertainment. Thank The NY Times, for putting a grad-school spin on it:
Speaking of metanarratives — and apart from the private vendettas on Planet Rap — a nice one is developing at center-stage of US political life: the Party of Chaos using federal judges to oppose the dismantling of their gigantic grift scaffold. In other words, more lawfare to obstruct any earnest effort to effectively reform the management of our country. So, last week, you get Judge Carl J. Nichols in the DC District arguing that the DOGE shutdown of USAID was unauthorized and potentially illegal, lacking congressional approval.
Then, late Friday (when most citizens are checking out of the week’s struggles) Judge Paul Engelmayer out of the Southern District of New York blocked DOGE and other executive branch officials from accessing US Treasury record of expenditures. The injunction, comically, prevents Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant from seeing what his agency doles out money for — that is, from managing anything his department does. The suit that prompted the ruling was brought by nineteen states’ Attorneys General led by NY AG Letitia James. So, you see how this works.
You must also imagine that the White House was prepared for these lawfare shenanigans, though they haven’t shown their hand in response so far. This is a constitutional quarrel, of course, since it concerns who has authority between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary over agency spending and, in particular, who gets to audit it. The actual objective by the plaintiff in these cases (the Party of Chaos) is simply to delay any corrective action.
The DOJ under Pam Bondi can designate the US Solicitor General to petition the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for certiorari — to expedite the resolution of this constitutional issue as to whether Mr. Trump, as chief executive, and his bona fide appointees, can carry out executive functions. The arguments against that appear to be weak.
It is the President’s duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, meaning that the departments under him do their jobs correctly, which would give him inherent authority to audit and restructure agencies like USAID. Both judges Nichols and Engelmayer are arrogating executive and legislative functions on policy-making for themselves, triggering a separation-of-powers dispute that the SCOTUS must adjudicate promptly.
What matters most in these cases is that SCOTUS has an opportunity to put up new guardrails against the hijacking of the federal courts for the purpose of lawfare — that is, for political dirty-fighting under color-of-law. The law is slow-moving, arcane, and incomprehensible to most non-lawyer citizens and that is why the Party of Chaos has misused it so liberally.
In any event, DOGE is moving ahead on many other fronts and the next battleground looks like the US Department of Education, an agency which, since its creation in 1979, has only presided over an epic degeneration in the academic performance of young people. The agency has grown since 1979 to 4,400 employees overseeing a $238-billion budget. Otherwise, what it’s mainly accomplished is to enrich the various teachers’ unions and to raise the cost of college tuitions astronomically while degenerating the purpose and value of higher ed. The fifty states were arguably doing a better job on their own without any DOE on the scene.
Meanwhile, it’s satisfying to see the security clearances revoked from Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid, and Norm Eisen....SNIP
Has there ever been a halftime show this bad?
James Howard Kunstler ping
Never heard anyone flap their lips so hard you didn’t know what the hell he was shouting about.
BUMP!
These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed.
Trump/Musk he greatest wake up call to reality that ever was.
Democrats are standing behind the after burner right now hoping to pawn the blame on anything else.
They're had that opportunity for decades.
They just ziggin an zaggin!
I said to my wife, last night, when “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” comes out of his mouth, you’ll know it’s the end of “rap”.
LOL! The NFL needs to go back to college marching bands for halftime shows. That horsecrap last night was for DemoRAT conventions. What a crock. I hope they didn’t pay too much for that crap.
“Those who complain the loudest about budget cuts make it easier to follow the money” L.Star
Totally 100% agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed
I have said for decades that the top two high school marching bands compete in the Supebowl half time for the National Trophy-—all year at the local levels marching compeititions would be held. Its cheap entertainment—worthy of some NFL funding for the competitors to travel to the Big Game, etc... Make it a tradition!
AGREED.
COULD NOT UNDERSTAND A SINGLE WORD.
WAS THE MICROPHONE HALF WAY DOWN THIS THROAT???
WHAT % of America follows or cares about “RAP “ noise????
Yes the democrats complain the loudest aka guilt.
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