Minneapolis was just the canary in the coal mine. Nick Shirley hit the news with hundreds of millions that vanished into entities with good-sounding names, only to line the pockets of terrorists based in Somalia. Along the way, Democrat politicians got a bit of baksheesh. Key features that made this possible start with the Prime Directive of CongressCritters: Do something!
Every time some public “problem,” real or not, hits the Victim Propaganda Network, Congress gets to work, and Congress has only one response: Drop money from helicopters. Never ask who picks up the money; just make sure that a form is filled out. Never measure results, just count forms. Make sure that spending is mandatory, and then increase it by CPI plus. Spending the same as last year is counted as an irresponsible “cut.” “Remember the children!”
It should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that this system is designed to facilitate fraud. Looking just at the description above, it should be easy to identify several features that must be changed to restore some semblance of rationality.
First, we have the question of enumerated powers. (I discussed this at legal length here.) Article I § 8 lists about two pages of specific things Congress has the power to do. They don’t include day care. But due to two Supreme Court rulings in the early New Deal era that turned the Constitution on its head, Congress gets away with it.
Now we know that California likely has fraud that adds a couple of zeroes to Minnesota's numbers. No meaningful work was ever done as the state spent $30 billion in federal tax money on a bullet train to nowhere. MediCal (Medicaid) appears to be a money-laundering agency, with a suggested $1 trillion-plus in fraud.
Looking around the country, it’s nearly certain that every state has similar fraud rolling along. Some states have pursued evildoers more effectively than others, but even those states still have a problem. Red Texas has a blue enclave in Austin that directly obstructs efforts to enforce the law.
All this is a manifestation of Sutton’s Law: Follow the money. The proper answer is to simply cut off the money.
Unfortunately, that won’t happen with our current Congress. And unless the President wakes up to that reality, it won’t ever happen. It’s time for the real nuclear option. Otherwise, welcome to Blue Tsunami.
Lest you think I’m Chicken Little, consider this basic fact. Conservatives are completely fed up with business as usual in DC. We re-elected Donald Trump to take out the trash. Instead, the fecal roster is made up of Dems and RINOs who are obstructing his nominees and initiatives. It’s time for some in-your-face retribution.
By all reports, Donald Trump turned an initial offer of $700 billion to Denmark for Greenland into a no-cost transfer of control to the US. That sort of negotiating skill doesn’t only apply to real estate. It can readily work in Congress. The key is a little strategizing with VP Vance and a couple of originalist Senators. Mike Lee, Rick Scott, and Ted Cruz come to mind. With that brain trust assembled, Trump should set up his own coup.
The first thing they should agree on is that the enumerated powers in Article I, § 8 mean exactly what they say. Put bluntly, Congress doesn’t have the authority to fund day care, indigent medical care, and education. We can even throw in agricultural subsidies and regulations on land-based oil and gas exploration. Every one of those belongs exclusively to the individual states, and no federal tax money can be used for them. So far, this is a philosophical discussion.
Next, Trump needs to get his personnel into place. Here’s where Vance comes into play.
He’s the President of the Senate. But unlike John Adams’ assessment of that role, the Vice Presidency is not “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Senator Grassley has refused to allow multiple judicial nominees to have a hearing because Democrat Senators in their state won’t “return their blue slip.”
So, Vance sits down in the Chair as President of the Senate. Neither Thune nor Schumer can tell him anything. He’s the boss. Any Senator can bring legislation or nominations to the floor, and the VP has the absolute authority to make those proposals the current business of the Senate.
At this point, one may object that the Senate is subject to a 1937 procedural ruling by VP John Nance Garner. But the current VP has all the power that this VP from ninety years ago had. The choice to recognize the majority leader can be set aside. Just as Democrats abolished the filibuster for nominees, the Vice President can bypass certain privileges of the Majority Leader.
His first act is to recognize one of the key Senators, who then brings nominees to the floor, bypassing the “Blue Slip” tradition. He then calls for a vote, en bloc, on Trump’s stalled appointees. Democrats eliminated the filibuster for nominees, so there’s nothing anyone can do.
Sure, a handful of supposed Republicans might vote “No,” but Trump will have already fixed that problem. His personal research team will prepare him to persuade recalcitrant members. And Trump has demonstrated his considerable skills in that area.
Next, Vance should recognize a Senator who brings the SAVE Act to the floor. Amendments will be considered, and a few improvements might be gaveled into the bill. The President of the Senate will call for the vote. Democrats will threaten a filibuster. And Vance will hand them a microphone with the command to “start talking.”
Democrats won’t be ready and will bluster. As soon as they take a breath, he bangs the gavel and declares that the debate is over. Should the Dems actually start talking, VP Vance and the originalist Senators trade off in the Chair. Others go in front of the cameras to explain that Democrats are trying to prevent voters from being required to present ID to vote.
Ultimately, Democrats will simply be forced to show America that they are completely dedicated to destroying the right to vote. They can filibuster until they have laryngitis, but at some point, the gavel will sound, and a vote will be taken.
Ineligible address/voter combos won’t receive mail-in ballots. 1.25 million in Pennsylvania, a million in Texas, and 5 million in California. 7/11s and WalMarts don’t get to vote anymore. With the SAVE Act passed and signed, most of the Democrat avenues for cheating will be blocked.
Vance now brings government funding to the floor under reconciliation. Each of the originalists can call for a ruling on the constitutional permissibility of various funding provisions. The Parliamentarian will be asked to rule that funding for the Department of Education is not within the enumerated powers in Article I § 8. Ditto for HHS. That will remove all the “research” that kills so many Americans every year with dangerous vaccines and ill-advised “health” advisories.
We can go on for far longer than you would be interested in reading. Virtually everything our federal government does is outside of the original constitutional design. The Parliamentarian’s ruling is purely advisory, and the Presiding Officer can ignore it.
This approach is very doable. It requires preparation and the will to break some porcelain. Donald Trump has proven he has the will and often prepares in ways we don’t see until the bomb drops. When these large areas of “government” are defunded, Democrats will go broke, both financially and in their ability to commit mass vote fraud. America will be saved, at least in the short run.
Ted Noel is a retired physician who posts on social media as Doctor Ted.
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