Posted on 04/05/2025 8:52:31 AM PDT by re_tail20
odawg: Yep, that power should lie wholly in the hands of Chuckie Schumer, little adam schiff, and Nancy Pelosi, etc.
The Congress shall have Power...To regulate Commerce with foreign NationsUS Const., Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 3.
Yep, constitutionally, that power should lie wholly in the hands of Chuckie Schumer, little adam schiff, and Nancy Pelosi, etc.
It's up to the American People to send the right representatives to Congress. Otherwise, have the Constitution amended. Those are your only constitutional choices.
VETO incoming!
Gee, I just got visited by this pretty lobbyist who asked me sweetly to undo those mean tariffs.
They miss the good old days when Joe Biden’s sure and steady hand was controlling the levers of power and exercising almost super-human powers fiscal restraint and responsibility.
You can laugh now.
The solution is to eliminate the stupid FDR-era laws that gave the President the authority to impose tariffs unilaterally in the first place.
undermine President Trump’s negotiating position with foreign countries, some of which have been taking serious advantage of us, doing America considerable harm with their trade practices?
I wish these politicians would just stand aside and watch President T for even a little while... allow him to do the job the people elected him to do for a reasonable period of time anyway (and yes, if anything needs correcting...okay, it can be corrected once we see if it has misfired, fine)
I do not respect congresscritters who just immediately, almost by reflex, oppose anything President Trump is trying to accomplish.
Congress needs to reclaim its powers on many things, not just tariffs. The answer to the administrative state and judicial tyranny is not for a president — any president — to act as a tribune of the people, ruling by decree. A dictator in the White House is just as bad as a dictator in a black robe hurling down decrees from the bench or committees of dictators squirreled away in regulatory agencies and doing whatever they want. No dictators. The solution is for Congress to actually do its job.
It’s been a long time since Congress did its job. The final nail in the coffin can probably be laid at the feet of Howard Baker, when he replaced Bobby Byrd as the first Republican Senate Majority Leader since the last ice age.
Baker was a decent, standup guy and a solid conservative by the standards of the time. But he thought the Senate could stand some reforms to make it a better place for Senators and staff alike to work. Some of these were probably appropriate, but it was Baker’s decision to eliminate the standing filibuster with a gentleman’s agreement to honor cloakroom holds, and the shadow filibuster was born.
It used to be an all-around pain up the wazoo and physically tiresome to stage a filibuster. Cory Booker could do his showboating thing, just as Ted Cruz had done some years back, but unless you have a solid relay team of Senators lined up to take shifts, a filibuster can’t be sustained for longer than one’s bladder can hold out. And given the age of so many Senators today, a lot of them couldn’t hold out for very long. Bringing back the standing filibuster might help thin out the gerontocracy. It would help a lot more to get rid of the parking spots, massively reduce staff so that Senators aren’t cosseted by staff chauffeurs, handlers, and helpers, and make Senators have to get themselves to the office like normal people and do more of their own work.
Baker made filibusters easy. It took Byrd about 15 seconds to spot the chink in the armor, and the Senate slipped almost overnight into the Land of the Perpetual Filibuster. Now, nothing of substance can move without 60 votes. And here we are.
With the Senate paralyzed, the House can fume and holler all it wants, but anything the House passes will die in the Senate unless it can command 60 votes. The conservative block in the House would probably be ready to man up and cast difficult votes to effect major reforms — and they might sometimes be able to rope in enough of the RINOs to actually pass it — but they quickly learn that it is pointless to cast politically painful votes, some of them potentially suicidal at home, on things that cannot pass the Senate. So House members learn to keep their heads down, and the prancing fools chasing the cameras take center stage there as well.
We rant about the filibuster, but I shudder at what today’s Democrats could do with 51 votes and no filibuster. We are perilously close to them engineering a one party state as it is. Absent the filibuster, they would lock in irretrievable changes overnight.
Before we abolish the filibuster, we should reverse Howard Baker’s mistake and restore the standing filibuster. Make filibusters hard again. That might be enough to break the total gridlock.
Some of these Freepers on this thread are comical. If Joe Biden’s auto pen had signed a bunch of unilateral tariffs, I suspect most of them would be outraged.
How dare the summer help threaten our(congress’) gravy
train !
Ditto’s
WWG1WGA!
“W” also gave us the Patriot Act that was the catalyst for government’s expansion into our privacy...and the infamous TSA groping pat downs.
The Bush family was not just RINOs...they were traitors to the Constitution.
Trump is 100% businessman. I've been using Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank as a guide...a Canadian, too.
Congress just doesn't understand tariffs...and certainly not their effect.
Someone please post Pelosi speaking on tariffs about 1996...Almost looks like Trump stole her take on tariffs...
Tariffs are not taxes.
Some of the largest U.S. manufactured exports are heavy Caterpillar and John Deere construction and agriculture equipment manufactured in Iowa.
Also grassley’s corn ethanol gave cars less milage,and destroyed fuel lines on small gas driven appliances and clogged their fuel systems up...
“The Congress shall have Power...To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations”
That is correct. Congress authorized the President to levy tariffs.
The Constitution mandates that Congress control the nation’s currency. Then Congress handed the control over to a group of foreign banks and called it the Federal Reserve.
Note the provision in the bill where if the Congress does nothing then the tariff doesn’t go into effect. In other words, Congress can be its lazy self and not vote on the tariffs and they wouldn’t go into effect. Typical lazy bastards. Also funny how now the Constitution means something to these spineless Republicans who have ignored it repeatedly while Democrats violated it. Grassley is long past his use by date.
Fair enough. They are also heavily compromised.
They are and will actively seek to stop and shutdown anything President Trump is doing. To hinder for four years, wait him out of office.
Oddly no such activities were ever witnessed during the CIA Biden Color Revolution installation.
Congress is absent when it comes to overseeing trillions in USAID dollars wasted and FBI CIA NSA illegal activity’s, or when pallets with billions in gold and cash dollars are shipped to Iran to fund their war machine. Asleep when Afghanistan falls and conveniently gives terrorists $87 billion in advanced weapons. Nodding off when Communists Marxists infiltrate every corner of America and flood their armies across our open borders. They are nowhere to be found when elections are blatantly stolen and Americans are illegally imprisoned for years without due process and no questions are asked when a garden vegetable is placed into the White House to be controlled by some still as yet nameless entity (demonic Obama)
Congress is out to lunch when all other nations are taking advantage of the USA like a Babylonian Temple Prostitute with unfair trade practices.
Then comes along a sitting US President who for once in many decades tries to level the playing field and they are now all in astonishment and seek to empower the US Constitution to defy him.
Wickedness.
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