George Rebane
SCOTUS term limits are now proposed by Democrats. A bill limiting justices to 18-year terms is to be introduced in the House (here). The Constitution only specifies that there will be a SCOTUS, and then gives Congress the permission to organize it and set up lower courts. Why Democrats are suddenly considering reducing the life terms of justices is an interesting speculation. Is that their alternative to packing the court after President Trump’s third nominee is sworn in? How will that legislation read – will the sitting justices be grandfathered with their life terms? If not, how will they be unseated? The whole process looks like it will be another dust-up between the parties. It will have no chance of passage until the Dems sweep both houses, and maybe even require their taking the WH. All such moves are intended to remove the checks and balances built in by our Founders to establish and maintain a democratic republic, and not let it lapse into a pure democracy which is so appealing to the nation's double dummies. However, the Democrats’ plan for an American autocracy requires that we first become a democracy with an ignorant and malleable electorate. Then the rest will be easy.
Obamacare popularity drops 5% since 2018. In the ten years of its existence, the unaffordable Affordable Care Act has managed to eke out only 8.3 million subscribers out of a population of 330 million Americans. (here) There is no more robust statistic that communicates the ‘popularity’ of this unfortunate program of nationalized healthcare that continues to be mismanaged by governments at all levels. Yet, hearing the Big Lie Democrats talk, you’d think that if Obamacare were replaced by some other safety net program, then the entire country would be on their own, putting on band-aids to treat cancer in the kitchen. Nothing could be further from the truth; our healthcare system is still the envy of the world which receives a steady stream of medical migrants coming to get treatments unavailable to them at any cost in their nationalized healthcare countries.
[26sep20 update] Politics causes dementia is a plausible proposition, especially in the ranks of collectivist politicians. California qualifies as Exhibit A. Here we have a governor, one who can easily be replaced by a 2×4 with a face painted on it, mandating no more fossil-fueled cars sold in the state after 2035. In the interval we are supposed to be transitioning to EVs for which no provision is being made for expanded charging stations, let alone expanding the now shrinking power grid as the natural gas and nuclear generating stations are taken off line. California's sky high electric rates now will soar to heights only seen in third world countries. Our one-party Democrat politicians are busy actively exploring new frontiers of idiocy. This is known to all middle-class taxpayers, many of whom are packing their U-Hauls as they join the Great Exodus to greener pastures, and all while our socialists – legislators to locals – are welcoming more welfare recipients and illegal aliens with attractive unfunded programs to succor their every need. To Democrats reliable voting constituencies are worth every penny they can extract from you.
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