Does President Trump need to worry?

[The Trump Administration]

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I suspect that President Trump may be the greatest civics teacher in our country’s history.

Read, and think*. (*Not applicable to Democrats, who lack the ability, in my view).

Silly Swampers shrilly screeching the "unqualified" mantra are trying to pretend they are champions of “Senate confirmation”, without considering whether or not it is constitutional.

This is very likely purposeful.

Anticipating the eventual abuse of the Constitution by potential enemies of the people (today's Democrats) the Framers wrote a clause that allows presidents to appoint officials while the Senate is in recess.

Before any ill-informed Democrats (and they always are ill-informed) belligerently bloviate about "dictatorship", those "recess" appointments expire at the end of the Senate’s next session.

Just a reminder: Democrat darling B. Hussein Obama tried to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) without Senate confirmation in 2014.

The Supreme Court spanked the sinister socialist soundly.

The price of hapless Hussein's humorous humiliation was a poison pill, however: The Court also ruled that a Senate recess has to be at least 10 days long before any future president could skip confirmation.

Naturally, devious Democrats sought to circumvent that ruling as soon as they could. They established the practice of pro forma sessions (for the benefit of ignorant Democrats, I'll explain - that means no Senate business is actually conducted but the Senate chamber is technically open to prevent a recess appointment).

But what Democrats do, Republicans can roll back.

I think President Trump wants this fight, and I think he wants it to be very public.

President Trump has asked that the Majority Leader stop this pernicious practice and allow him to make recess appointments in accordance with the Framers' intent. Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said “all options are on the table, including recess appointments.”

IIf successful, the President's nominees will now have a period in which to prove they can perform (or not).

I suspect that said performances, contrasted with the “preferred” candidates of the Swamp, will make the Swampers suffer by comparison.

But it’s more than that.

This fight is over whether or not a president has the power to choose his own cabinet to run the Executive Branch.

I believe that for too long, the Senate has encroached on the Executive Branch's powers in regards to appointments.

 

[archives]

Another op ed piece lacking a source, but with all predictable dog whistles, I’m guessing the “war room,” but given “copy and paste’s” habit of being a lemming, it could originate from anywhere

 

[AProudLefty]

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I suspect that President Trump may be the greatest civics teacher in our country’s history.

 

[The Trump Administration]

The framers of the Constitution granted the Senate and the president shared power to appoint judges and civil officers.

That shared power remains in place, but the way in which the Senate has exercised that power has changed.

A little history:

Our Founding Fathers wrote the appointments clause of the Constitution to require all officers of the United States appointed by the president to be subject to the “advice and consent” of the Senate.

In the early days of our Republic, the Senate established the practice of "senatorial courtesy", in which senators expected to be consulted on all nominees to federal posts - within their own states.

Take careful note of that verbiage.

This gave solons a measure of influence over who got federal jobs in their bailiwicks. Naturally, patronage began to be a factor. Donors and supporters expecting a reward could now receive that reward from the federal purse, courtesy of the taxpayers.

Many of these lawmakers, who were so generous with the people's money, rose to prominence in the political parties that emerged in the early 19th century.

That's when Democrats invented the Spoils System that's perpetually poisoned America with partisan political patronage.

By the late 19th century, in the notoriously corrupt (Democrat) Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall era, Republican presidents and Democrat senators began to clash over control of these "spoils" (appointed positions), prompting some to push the notion of "advice and consent" of the Senate beyond the scope of the Constitution, while also hugely expanding the federal bureaucracy that was naturally beholden to the Democrat party - since they owed them their jobs.

Since I deem Democrats unlikely to comprehend complex concepts without assistance (and that's often insufficient to overcome their inabilities), this means that senators of the opposition party have a motive to delay or reject the president’s nominees.

As the federal government's payroll mushroomed - after Democrat Woodrow Wilson pushed for the Sixteenth Amendment, the number of appointments supposedly subject to Senate "confirmation" continued to grow, until what started as Senatorial “courtesy" morphed into Senate “approval".
It appears to me that President Trump is attempting to take us back to the intent of the Framers of our Constitution, not away from it. This could be the beginning of reining in Congressional encroachment on the Executive Branch and re-establishing the separation of powers originally intended by the Framers.

Please, share your relevant thoughts below, if you have any.

I don't expect any Democrats to fulfill that request regarding relevancy, of course.



U.S. Senate: About Executive Nominations | Historical Overview

www.senate.gov

 

[The Trump Administration]

Another op ed piece lacking a source, but with all predictable dog whistles, I’m guessing the “war room,” but given “copy and paste’s” habit of being a lemming, it could originate from anywhere

My username appears at the top of the thread, Anchovies, and I expressly used modifiers identifying my speculative opinions where applicable.

Poor Anchovies.

 

[archives]

My username appears at the top of the thread, Anchovies, and I expressly used modifiers identifying my speculative opinions where applicable.

Poor Anchovies.

Just another pseudonym, your posts reveal who you are, as much as you try, you aren’t clever enough to masquerade them, it is easily recognized as the same “copy and paste” bullshit

 

[The Trump Administration]

Just another pseudonym, your posts reveal who you are, as much as you try, you aren’t clever enough to masquerade them, it is easily recognized as the same “copy and paste” bullshit

As a rational individual might be reasonably expected to ascertain, assuming that they could comprehend polysyllabic English, Anchovies, nobody is attempting to obfuscate the provenance of the OP.

Poor Anchovies.