Posted on 10/25/2016 4:39:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Some of us this election year don't even want to say the words "Clinton" or "Trump" -- and with good reason. However, there is one word that we should keep in mind: "Turnout."
If we sit home in disgust on election day, we forfeit the right -- and the duty -- to elect a Congress that can keep either of these dangerous people from doing permanent damage to this country and to the future of this generation -- and generations yet unborn.
Control of Congress has probably never mattered more than in this election, simply because of two out-of-control people, one of whom is going to become President of the United States.
We need a Congress that can block dangerous legislative proposals coming from the White House, and block dangerous nominees to the federal courts, including especially the Supreme Court. More than that, we need a Congress that can remove a dangerous President who ignores the law and commits impeachable offenses. Any Congress theoretically can do so, since the House of Representatives has the power to impeach and the Senate then votes on whether to remove the President from office.
However, as we have seen over the past seven years, that theoretical power means nothing, if neither House of Congress has the incentives and the guts to use the power they have.
Barack Obama has repeatedly exceeded the powers of his office, disregarding laws passed by Congress, and making in effect a unilateral treaty with Iran, exempting it from American sanctions for building nuclear bombs.
Just by not calling it a treaty, Obama has ignored the Constitution's requirement that all treaties be made only with Senate approval. Yet there has never been a treaty with more far-reaching -- and potentially fatal -- consequences than this unilateral presidential agreement with a foreign country.
Yet who was going to impeach "the first black President," with the media ready to go ballistic if they tried?
With no credible threat of impeachment, neither of this year's candidates for President will have any deterrent to indulging their already demonstrated headstrong disregard of anything other than their own interests and their own egos.
Not only does this mean that we have a duty to vote for Congress, even if we don't have the stomach to vote for either presidential candidate, it also means that we need to decide what kind of Congress we want, in light of the high stakes.
We need to ask which of our local candidates for the House of Representatives, and which of our statewide candidates for the Senate, is someone with the character and the guts to remove a President from office.
Don't try to hide behind the lame excuse that "They're all the same."
Let's not forget that President Richard Nixon resigned for a reason. That reason was that Senator Barry Goldwater led a delegation of Republican Senators to the White House to inform Republican President Nixon that they would not support him in the Senate if the House of Representatives impeached him.
We know it can be done, because it already has been done.
The real question now is: What kind of voters are we? Those who ask "What can I do, I am only one little person?" are just copping out.
"We the People" are not only the first three words of the Constitution, it is where the Constitution put the ultimate power to make or break any politician. What can you do? Everything.
If you can't be bothered, then be honest enough to say, "I can't be bothered." But don't cop out with a lame excuse. Too many other people's fate depends on whether you do your duty.
Painful as it may be to realize that we are reduced to considering the impeachability of a presidential candidate, that is a reality that will not go away, just because we don't like it.
How impeachable is Hillary Clinton? Since she would be "the first woman President," any criticism of her, much less any impeachment, would bring loud howls from the media across the country that ugly sexist bias was behind any opposition to anything she did -- no matter how awful. Hillary in the White House would have a blank check, and she would not hesitate to use it.
Donald Trump has no such exemption. Neither the media nor Congressional Republicans would automatically spring to his defense if he overstepped the line. His impeachability may be his most important asset in a year of painful choices.
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Some of us this election year don’t even want to say the words “Clinton” or “Trump” — and with good reason
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Sowell turned from a hero to an ass hole rather quickly.
Pass the word to the 200 million registered voters (according to fauxahontus).
And make sure all the jackass party members know & understand that their votes are needed & to head to the polls on November 9th!
FUTS
...then we show that "we" are not serious people, in fact are quite silly.
Trump is the proper instrument for what need be done at this time and place. Those who do not understand, frankly, are clueless about this time and place.
Thanks for posting this. The 3 of us in our family already voted for Trump absentee in Michigan. Our township still uses optically read paper ballots. Even so I still called the township offices yesterday to verify they got them in the mail.
Thanks for posting this. The 3 of us in our family already voted for Trump absentee in Michigan. Our township still uses optically read paper ballots. Even so I still called the township offices yesterday to verify they got them in the mail.
The point that Dr Sowell is making is that we should not ignore that the election is also about Congress. The entire House faces reelections and the Senate 34 states have elections for Senate which we must not ignore.
Some of us this election year don't even want to say the words "Clinton" or "Trump" -- and with good reason
I used to be an admirer of Dr. Sowell. Even he can't seem to open an analysis without a gratuitous swipe at Trump.
I get it... he's a flawed person and a imperfect politician. Anyone voluntarily subjecting himself to the last year would have to be a bubble off level. But we don't get to create our own perfect candidate, we have to choose them off the rack...unless we're willing to step into the ring ourselves.
Pointing out that he's flawed is not an intellectual achievement, and I'm up to here with mindless virtue signaling. Sowell and other critics need to get off Trump's back, or welcome the second President Clinton...with all that entails.
Trump is the perfect man for this time and place, and head and shoulders above any other Pub candidate.
[Some of us this election year don’t even want to say the words “Clinton” or “Trump” — and with good reason.]
Those self-righteous slobs disgust me.
WHY EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD STAND UP AND VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP
http://constitution.com/every-christian-stand-vote-donald-trump/
Are you saying that Dr Sowell does not have a right to his opinion? If so, shame on you. Besides the subject of the article is not Donald Trump or Hillary Rotten Clinton, although he mentions them. The subject is Congress. If you had read the op-ed you would have noticed that.
Sowell is an old school Free Traitor and hates Trump.
This reads like a Cruz sound bite calling Trump supporters ‘low information’ voters. Never thought I would ever consider Sowell so very much an elitist snob... I do NOT give a hoot what he thinks about Trump...
I agree. Write him off too.
S.O.F.T. Red Shirt 11/5
Put on a red shirt and put your Signs Out For Trump on Saturday 11/5. Gets the signage out in a flurry right before the vote, and nicks the queer’s red shirt crap.
Dr. Sowell, please stop ruining your career at the end.
I said I thought less of him for having expressed that opinion. He's fully entitled to hold and express that opinion. The two are not equivalent. In any case, he's not a snowflake.
I read the article; your point was that that the article was about the Congress, not Trump. That reinforces my point; why the need for the gratuitous shot at Trump? Can you think, then answer?
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