Posted on 12/08/2001 7:01:41 AM PST by WL-law
Heads up to Freepers -- late last night I watched C-Span re-run Friday's meeting of Mary Frances Berry's Commission on Civil Rights. YOU MUST SEE THIS!! NO WORDS CAN ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE IT!!
The confrontation between the Commission/Berry and the Bush administration has been weLl described in other articles, so I won't rehash it here (but I recommend visiting other threads on the subject "Berry").
And here's the (outrageous) essence of the meeting: Miss Berry in effect (and explicitly, at times) argues that her commission's role as a 'watchdog' agency or 'overseer' inherently grants her independence and insulation from political interference, therefore creating a kind of quasi-independent branch, akin to the Federal-judiciary. In other words, Bush can't touch her or there'll be hell to pay.
Really -- that's her position -- essentially that the founders THOUGHT there were three branches of government, but there are really FOUR -- and she's the fourth!!
also note that as part of the politically-correct gender role-playing, all the MEN (except the republican) talk in silly, girly voices, deferential and weak, while the women -- and foremost Miss(ter) Berry, talk like men --- well, at least like hopelessly-illogical-but-nonetheless-authoritarian men.
It's really too much for words -- I was watching at 3 a.m. last night and I was SPEECHLESS!
Everyone should watch this and learn from it. These people are positively frightening, and they are NOT kidding around.
They are arrogant and abusive all in the name of being unbiased and open. They are not!
WE fund this Commission and yet there is no accountability whatsoever, at least according to Ms. Berry who seems to have assumed the position of the highest officeholder in the land.
Ms. Berry might have insulation from political interference but she wouldn't have any insulation from the nightsticks of the Federal Marshalls that would clear that meeting room if I were....
it forbade the President to remove any federal officeholder appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate without the further approval of the Senate.
It also provided that members of the President's cabinet should hold office for the full term of the President who appointed them and one month thereafter, subject to removal by the Senate.
With this measure the radical Republicans in Congress hoped to assure the continuance in office of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and thus prevent any interference with the military occupation of the South in their Reconstruction plan. In order to bring about a court test of the constitutionality of the act, Johnson dismissed Stanton, but the Supreme Court, intimidated by the radicals, refused to pass on the case. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant , whom Johnson appointed Secretary ad interim, turned the office back to Stanton when the Senate refused to approve his dismissal. Johnson then appointed Gen. Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War, but Stanton, barricading himself in the department, refused to yield.
Johnson's alleged violation of the Tenure of Office Act was the principal charge in the impeachment proceedings against him. When this move failed (May, 1868), Stanton finally gave up. The act, considerably modified in Grant's administration, was in large part repealed in 1887, and in 1926 the Supreme Court declared its principles unconstitutional.
The point is that all appointees serve at the pleasure of the President.
Ha. You got that right. And I'll bet the only reason Berry lets the Republican man say anything is because he's blind. That, in her view, makes him just p.c. enough to be permitted to speak.
it forbade the President to remove any federal officeholder appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate without the further approval of the Senate.
It also provided that members of the President's cabinet should hold office for the full term of the President who appointed them and one month thereafter, subject to removal by the Senate.
With this measure the radical Republicans in Congress hoped to assure the continuance in office of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and thus prevent any interference with the military occupation of the South in their Reconstruction plan. In order to bring about a court test of the constitutionality of the act, Johnson dismissed Stanton, but the Supreme Court, intimidated by the radicals, refused to pass on the case. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant , whom Johnson appointed Secretary ad interim, turned the office back to Stanton when the Senate refused to approve his dismissal. Johnson then appointed Gen. Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War, but Stanton, barricading himself in the department, refused to yield.
Johnson's alleged violation of the Tenure of Office Act was the principal charge in the impeachment proceedings against him. When this move failed (May, 1868), Stanton finally gave up. The act, considerably modified in Grant's administration, was in large part repealed in 1887, and in 1926 the Supreme Court declared its principles unconstitutional.
The point is that all appointees serve at the pleasure of the President.
Yes and you're also being insulting to the memory of Moms Mabley, who at least had legitimate comic talent.
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