Posted on 04/04/2025 1:58:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Republicans obviously shouldn’t outsource their legislative prerogatives to the parliamentarian.
Who decides what statutes say in Congress? The obvious answer is that Congress itself decides. But if Senate Republicans are not careful, they will set a new precedent to outsource this power to the Senate parliamentarian and the left-wing bureaucrats at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
At issue are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waivers Joe Biden granted to California under the Clean Air Act. As attorneys Michael Buschbacher and James Conde recently explained, these waivers wreak havoc on the domestic automotive and fossil-fuel industries, limiting consumer choice, hurting workers, and upending the Constitution by forcing 49 states to, in essence, do California’s environmentalist bidding.
Recognizing how toxic these waivers are to his energy-dominance agenda, Donald Trump had his EPA transmit three such waivers to Congress for potential review and disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). So far this year, Congress has repealed half a dozen Biden rules under the CRA’s fast-track procedures.
The California waivers are rules. They are executive actions of general, prospective applicability. As the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has explained, “adjudications involve concrete disputes [and] they have an immediate effect on specific individuals (those involved in the dispute).” In contrast, “Rulemaking … is prospective, and has a definitive effect on individuals only after the rule subsequently is applied.”
If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. These waivers were issued like rules, give future effect to emissions standards like rules, and have national applicability like rules. They’re rules.
With Congress poised to finally eliminate these job-killing waivers, though, Democrat senators asked GAO to come to their rescue...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
But if Senate Republicans are not careful, they will set a new precedent to outsource this power to the Senate parliamentarian and the left-wing bureaucrats at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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Another burden off the GOP’s shoulders. Pretty soon all they will have to do is find something to squabble about each day, until they are soundly trashed in 2026.
“...forcing 49 states to, in essence, do California’s environmentalist bidding. “
This is not unprecedented, however. Congress has ceded its Constitutional duty of authority over the District of Columbia and no one dare say a word.
It seems as if they will do anything to avoid responsibility.
This is truly a problem which doesn’t have a good answer.
Establishment Republicans simply don’t want the responsibility. As such, on election day, they have no enemies.
And you can see the results of this, even in Trump himself, who has already threatened to primary the one single guy(Massie) in Congress who has actually authored a bill that would repeal the Department of Education 1979 law and permanently destroy this DoEd monstrosity.
Why did Trump say Massie needs a primary challenger. Because Massie dared say we need a true budget instead of an Emergency Continuing Obamunist resolution - the true constitutional answer. Oh the ironies - the guy actually doing the correct thing is the guy we need rid of.
It’s alright, everybody gets some things wrong and Trump is no different from time to time he will get a call wrong. But we see this all the time with the Establishment.
Who is more controversial? John Cornyn or Ted Cruz? Obviously Ted Cruz. Who is the conservative? It sure as heck isn’t Cornyn! But who ever sees a Cornyn primary challenger? So guess what. Cornyn will with no question get rewarded with another 6 years. Cornyn will never be attacked by the GOP even though the GOP was willing to attack and let Cruz lose his election - even in the general election. Alternatively, how many times have we seen Lindsey Graham get re-elected? How many times did John McCain get re-elected on the legacy of his military experience and absolutely disconnected from his actual legislative record? How many times has Murkowski gotten re-elected? Thom Tillis, anybody?
This is why the Establishment rules over us. Partially(mostly) the voters are to blame. When a candidate says and does absolutely nothing but sits there and wastes 2 years(house) or 6 in the senate they should not win a primary election, nor should they win the general election. The litany of broken promises is very long, however the voters will keep pulling the lever for useless people and they die in office.
No way around that one. The voters are the problem. We literally have a zombie in the Senate representing the state of Kentucky, the ancient turtle.
But Congress bears some blame, it isn’t just the voters alone who are at fault. These people do get elected on promises. Then once elected, they break those promises. But if you keep voting for a guy who keeps breaking promises over, and over, and over, and over again at some point how can you blame the promise breaker for broken promises when you gave them a gold card of never ending votes? There’s no punishment whatsoever for breaking promises and lying.
At least 60% of the problem is the voters themselves. The fact is, we have around 23 reliably red states.
We do not have anywhere near 46 reliably conservative senators and everybody who sees this will find it terribly difficult to come up with even 5 reliably conservative senators much less 46 of them. Why does Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, South Dakota, and many others, have two completely useless senators? We should at least, at a minimum, have 25 fire breathers like Ted Cruz in the senate. But we don’t.
The only way over 40 non-conservative republicans can keep getting re-elected over and over and over again is we have low-quality/low-information voters on the GOP side. There is no way around the facts. This is truly a problem which doesn’t have a good answer because you can’t exactly replace the voters with quickness.
America’s problem is Democrats.
In our country, most everyone can vote. it didn’t used to be that way.
The founding fathers knew most the population were near idiots so they put in some limits. They created a Republic.
Populists over the years eroded those limits so we are now run by people elected by or appointed for life by near idiots.
Democracy is not good when you have stupid people running it.
That is why were were a Republic. Designed to save us from the rule of the “Mob”.
That Republic is now pretty much gone.
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