Posted on 01/30/2021 8:28:48 AM PST by John Semmens
The barrage of decrees from President Biden prodded the editors at the New York Times to question whether it is an appropriate way to make laws. The editors wondered "whether a polarized nation might be worsened by one-man rule. If we want to build consensus shouldn't proposed laws be debated in Congress? Even if the end result is identical, the image of a law passed by a majority of the people's representatives looks better than what we've seen so far from the Biden Administration."
The mere question posed by the editors proved irksome to Biden. "No one can tell me what to do," Biden said. "I'm the most powerful man in the world. Everybody has to do what I say. That includes the New York Times."
Ironically, it was only three months ago that as a presidential candidate, Biden denounced rule by decree, saying "I have this strange notion, we are a democracy. If you can't get the votes you can't legislate by executive order unless you're a dictator. We're a democracy. We need consensus."
Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended her boss, saying that "it all comes down to unity. To have unity we have to all be on the same page and march to the same drummer. Before the election, the Times was on the same page and did march to the same drummer. It is both unfathomable and disconcerting to see them drift away from the truth path now that everything we all worked for is within our grasp. For now, we'll consider the Times' objection to be a simple lapse of judgment—a kind of a brain fart that can happen to anyone. We're confident they won't make a habit of it going forward."
In related news, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) is urging President Biden to declare a climate emergency. "He can do many, many things under emergency powers that he can't do under the constraints of the Constitution," Schumer pointed out. "In the 1930s Germany used emergency powers to pull the country out of the depression and build the strongest military on the European continent. Granted, they went too far and launched a war that killed tens of millions and nearly wiped out the Jews. But we Democrats are aware of the dangers of unlimited dictatorial powers. We're not Nazis and can be counted on to only use these emergency authoritarian powers for good—like governors Cuomo, Newsom, and Whitmer did fighting the COVID pandemic this past year."
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“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.”
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