Posted on 04/22/2020 7:36:39 AM PDT by bitt
The kerfuffle over how much authority the president has vis-à-vis state governors boiled over at a recent White House coronavirus briefing. Missing in the debate is the conundrum that became apparent in August 2005, during Hurricane Katrina.
During a critical week, from two days before Katrina, to five days after, there arose a conflict the likes of which had never been seen in American disaster governance: an open clash between the president on one side and the Louisiana governor and the mayor of New Orleans on the other.
The Depression-Era Heritage. Put simply, the statutes governing emergency authority during disasters were enacted after the Great Flood of 1927, when the Mississippi River crested at a record level. With the federal government then but a minuscule collection of departments and agencies, the preponderance of governing power rested with the states. The U.S. Constitution provides for a tripartite division of sovereignty: specific, enumerated powers delegated to the federal government; other governing powers — including the “police power” — reserved to the States per the Tenth Amendment; and residual rights reserved for the people per the Ninth Amendment. In essence, these two amendments confer popular sovereignty. The idea of popular sovereignty is also found in what is regarded as the “organic law” of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson’s famed formulation:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — . That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
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Trump doesnt have a DEMOCRAT WIFE like Laura Bush! She ruined him!
What is making these nitwits bat-sh!t crazy is that he hasn't taken away from them the one thing they wish he WOULD take away from them: Their responsibility to make decisions in their own jurisdictions.
The media play a big role here too.
During Katrina the media collectively decided that everything that happened was the fault of George W. Bush.
And wasn’t it coincidental that at that time the mayor of New Orleans was a Democrat and the governor of Louisiana was also a Democrat. Since there was no Republican to blame at the local level, the media decided to blame the Republican president for alleged shortcomings in the federal response to Katrina. As if state and local officials have no responsibility in disasters.
I think we see something similar happening here. The media hate Trump. In the hot spot of New York the mayor and Governor are both Democrats, the media have decided that Trump is to blame for hospitals not having ventilators and not having supplies, as if the president of the United States is supposed to be personally responsible for ordering medical supplies at every local hospital in New York City.
Trump is the Jack Dempsey of politics and the Democrats have Horton Hears a Who as their nominee.
What an excellent observation!
Score!
“Trump doesnt have a DEMOCRAT WIFE like Laura Bush! She ruined him!”
Oh please. The family is northeastern patrician liberal through and through. My question would be, what evidence does anyone have that Bush gave a rip about conservatism or the Constitution? Starting with his time as TX Guv?
Trump then goaded the Democrats and media into espousing states’ rights and federalism by claiming he had “total authority”.
It caused a socialist, like Cuomo to cite the Founders and the constitution!!!
But it also made clear that states need to be prepared and the federal gov’t is just a support mechanism.
Bush never fought back on these grounds. He never attacked New Orleans or Louisiana’s lack of emergency preparedness, despite the known reality that NO would be hit by a Cat 5 hurricane one day.
Media roll …….
I agree, because of a typical “guilty-feeling” Republican Bush , but Trump would have had the LA. Gov and NOLA mayor
heads on the public-pike. Both were target-rich, that Bush let off the hooks.
W was WAT more conservative than any other member of his famil...especially his wife.
“Way more conservative” is not evidence.
Are you familiar with his record as Texas Gov?
Read “The Pink Embassy” for a taste of the real W (though this was as Prez):
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-pink-embassy/
Tip of the iceberg.
The man was a basically a Johnson Democrat?
OK, I give .... and Laura is definitely a Johnson democrat.
A lot of people were fooled because he pretended to be a committed evangelical.
It was very revealing when he appointed a liberal (Spellings) as Sec of Education. She was pro-abort, and in the record of the conversation with Karen Hughes (Bush confidante)...Hughes was, also.
Many the big name players around 43 have also turned out to be pro-homo “marriage”. Ken Mehlman, RNC head and Bush campaign field director, for example.
And what about this?
Who you marry matters. I believe PT wouldn't be the guy he is without Melania.
It matters, but it does not change one’s fundamental character. As to W, I see no evidence that there was any chance in his public life
Would this be the very same Duh-bya who touted everything Mexican illegal alien, such as "family values don't stop at the border" and "Mexicans are just doing the jobs Americans won't do?"
The very same Duh-bya who wanted to give US Social Security benefits to Mexican illegal aliens?
The same Duh-bya who allowed US banking laws to be changed so that Mexican illegal aliens holding Matricula Consular cards could open US bank accounts, obtain US credit cards, home loans, auto loans, business loans?
The same Duh-bya who ordered US interior and border immigration enforcement to its lowest levels ever?
The same Duh-bya who never uttered a word about the Presidency of Barak Obama, but has come out publicly criticizing Trump's Presidency?
That Duh-bya?
“The same Duh-bya who...”
Yes, that same one.
After promising to give us strict constructionist SCOTUS judges, he gave us Roberts, and then tried to give us Harriet Myers. People may also forget that he tried to give us a permanent AWB.
Dollars to donuts, I have no doubt that W supported Cankles in 2016.
As far as I am concerned, he was worse than Obama.
yes...that W.
“...The idea of popular sovereignty is also found in what is regarded as the “organic law” of the Declaration of Independence...”
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