A more accurate title might ask whether our representative democracy can survive 22 more months of political encroachment by the current President turned Emperor . Almost every day we wake up to news reports detailing yet another chapter in the Emperor’s rule book entitled, Love Your Opinion As Long As We Do It My Way. In ancient Rome, malcontents in the Senate were shipped to the Coliseum to pursue their objections with the lions. Today, the Emperor’s minions throw the whiner, the complainer, the objector, the senator representing his state’s citizens to MSNBC or CNN, who engage in the modern-day version of media crucifixion. Frankly it scares me !
Just this week, the Emperor bulldozed the long-standing FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, into regulating the internet, and putting in place the mechanism to determine access rates just like an electric utility. And then after donating campaign operatives on the ground in Israel to unseat the standing leader of our ally, he not only fails to congragulate the victor, but proposes dragging our ally to the U.N. Security Council over Palestinian rights. So an American President wants to undermine our ally, Israel , at the U.N., in favor of our enemy, Iran and its consorts, Hamas and Hezbollah. Thank those brave Senators who last week bravely stated their override powers on the upcoming wildcat treaty concocted by the Emperor and his sidekick, John Kerry (“I have a plan, a really big plan”) that essentially opens the door for an Iranian bomb(s). And this morning, darn if he didn’t propose mandatory voting in the USA, stating “Americans who skip the polls on Election Day are younger, lower income, and more likely to be immigrants or minorities. There’s a reason why some folks try and keep them from the polls.”
Don’t be surprised if you see an Executive order sometime this year raising tax rates on the rich, greedy rich folks, with no input or blessing from the Legislative branch. Hopefully, Rome will not burn in the next 22 months. WHAT THE HECK !
