Posted on 03/18/2021 2:15:15 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Senate confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, 50–49, in the closest confirmation vote a Biden cabinet nominee has seen.
All but one Republican [Susan Collins] opposed Becerra’s confirmation.
Becerra, a pro-abortion former U.S. representative widely criticized for lacking health experience, is the only cabinet member of the 20 so far confirmed who was not favorably recommended after their committee hearing. The Finance Committee was deadlocked 14–14 on approving him, which forced Democrats to vote on discharging his nomination from the committee. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor last week prior to voting for the discharge, “I’m perplexed that none of my Republican colleagues would vote for him.”
Schumer bashed Republicans in a speech Thursday just prior to the confirmation vote for attempting to “derail [Becerra’s] nomination” with arguments that “verge on the ridiculous.” Becerra, Schumer said, “has decades of standing up for working and middle class Americans in Congress, fighting to protect and expand Medicare, Medicaid and working to safeguard our healthcare system from attacks by the Trump administration.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Becerra “woefully unqualified” and “a partisan politician with no expertise in healthcare” in a statement after his confirmation.
Sen. Ted Cruz deemed Becerra the “single-worst cabinet nominee put forward by Joe Biden.”
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Once again Susan Collins shows exactly what she is - a liberal democrat with the ethics and character of all democrats i.e. none.
Wickarrd v. Filburn is interesting in part because its logic does not match the facts.
If farmer Filburn had not threshed the excess wheat, he would not have been liable for the paltry tax, but his use of the unthresehd wheat for his own livestock would have had the same interstate effect that the illogical court used to justify its conclusion.
It wasn’t growing and consuming the wheat that triggered the tax - but it was growing and consuming the wheat that triggered the “interstate effect” that the decision depends on.
Court is a body of whim at this point. It hallucinates too. Lawyers study this illogic and apply it to current cases.
As an academic point, sure. But voting has no effect on the court. The justices do what they will, and have convinced themselves it is the right thing to do. They make up whatever to call all conclusions "constitutional."
The presence of dissenting opinions makes it obvious that there is serious disagreement as to the constitutionality of many decisions, but "it is what it is," and Don;t expect the people have the balls to even offer meaningful civil disobedience.
I agree, bring the pain sharp and quick. Make everyone feel it hard. It’s the only way to snap out of this. Alot of us don’t deserve it but we don’t deserve a slow boil either. The slow boil will be more damaging in the long run.
I'm 64, still paying $13,000 annually for my company subsidized health care converage with $6,900 in annual deductibles. What a deal! I'll be 65 in August. The Medicare postal mail is piling up daily for that initial sign-up window. Just in time from the Dems to be preparing to do damage to Medicare and my employer anxious to see me off the "company plan" on my birthday. Arrggh!
Couple that with the illegal alien onslaught that will be accommodated by spending social security funds to support the shiftless invaders. A crappy confluence of events.
Justices will do what activist law schools have indoctrinated them to do imo.
Also, thank you for reminding me.
Besides trampling the Electoral College-related 12th Amendment, another major problem with constitutionally undefined political parties is this. They have divided both Houses of Congress, including the Senate.
The significance of the Senate being divided is that activist justices and presidents know that the Senate probably won’t find the 2/3 majority votes to remove them from office if they get impeached by House.
Collins is a turncoat. Better to get her out of the Senate and put a Democrat in than to try and trust her for anything.
I know she just won re-election but it would be nice if someone started a “RECALL” petition even if none is allowed for a Senate/House election.
"the illogical court"
Thank you for your patience with this discussion.
Yes, the illogical court is one way to put it.
Another way to put it is what part of NO did FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices not understand about Congress’s intentionally limited Commerce Clause powers?
After all, not only had 19th century justices emphasized the already clear interpretation of Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers, that Congress has NO power to regulate INTRAstate Commerce, but Justice Joseph Story had listed agriculture first in a list of otherwise “reasonable” powers that the Commerce Clause actually did not give to Congress.
I might have included the following in a previous post awhile back.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Agriculture [emphasis added], colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphasis added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
like usual, Mitch can not keep his minions in line.
All but one Republican [Susan Collins] opposed Becerra’s confirmation and Mitch doesn’t do any thing to her for said vote?
How about stripping these RINO a-holes of committee assignments there Mitch ya dope?
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