Posted on 07/06/2024 9:44:24 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As the belief that Joe Biden is fully equipped to be president dissolves like mist on a Delaware morning, some of his defenders have fallen back on the idea that the American presidency is not really a man but a team.
“I would take Joe Biden on his worst day at age 86 — so long as he has people around him like Avril Haines, Samantha Power, Gina Raimondo supporting him — over Donald Trump any day,” a former homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, said on MSNBC a few days ago. Don’t think of this as the Biden presidency, in other words; think of it as the Biden-Raimondo-Haines-Power presidency (tack on a dozen more names if you like), in which if the central pillar weakens, the support structure can still hold things up.
From there, you could take the relatively mild position that one lesson of both the Biden years and Trump’s first term is that the executive branch can often work around a president who isn’t quite up to the demands of the job. Or you could take the sweeping position that the government as a corporate entity almost always works independently of the occupant of the Oval Office and so an increasingly incapacitated chief executive who does what the process tells him to do would just be business as usual for the ship of state.
The mild position clearly has some truth to it: The everyday functioning of the executive branch does seem more independent of the president’s capacities than it appeared to be before January 2017. I also think the sweeping argument gets at an important reality of governmental power: Conservatives especially have long understood the limited ability of presidents to fully impose their authority on the bureaucracy they nominally lead.
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Deep State!
Deep State!
Rah, rah, rah!
We don’t need a Vice President. Trump proved that.
As anyone who has ever been in business can tell you, management by committee does not work. Ergo, yes, we need a president.
s/b “Does America need the New York Slimes, or Ross Douthat?”
In the coming months we’re going to see such turmoil and chaos that I believe some states are going to be leaving the Union so I suppose what’s left of the Union can have a president.
It’s getting hip deep now.
There’s no need for a legislature either. Just let the bureaucratic regulatory State control everything.
Amen to that.
Someone has to make that final decision. And by the time it gets to the President…all of the good options have been exhausted. It is a constant effort to make the least worst choice.
Also, the leader sets the vision or tone. Their subordinates should be able to make decisions based on the over-arching theme of the government. But that has to come from the top person.
They globalists plan to elevate the communist DP above the federal government.
the Constitution proscribes a President so yes we need a President. why do modernistas always seem to believe they are smarter and wiser than the brilliant men that wrote the founding documents of these United States of America?
Please just get out of our country. Please!!!
What we don't need are dishonest, unholy people obtaining political power.
I can think of a country that was run by a politburo, but it isn’t around anymore.
The second stage of grieving: Denial
Best example of that is The Death of Stalin. The politburo couldn’t even act on calling a doctor for days.
We need a Committee of Karens to rule over us...
Lol.
America is a Banana Republic. A highly evolved banana republic, but nevertheless.
And any good Banana Republic that forms after a coup like we had in 2020 often involves a puppet leader. And boy do we have one now!
Click screen name for a brief analysis on the Great American Coup d’etat of 2020.
They are finally admitting that the deep state REGIME has been running the country all along. This is unconstitutional and everyone involved needs to be jailed. When Trump wins, they will constantly be attacking unless republicans in congress who are not part of the regime weed regime members out and prosecute them for taking over the country unconstitutionally and releasing a bioweapon on US citizens.
Who are the individuals calling the shots in foreign policy and WHO dissolved our borders?
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