George Rebane
The Democratic leadership has discovered the evils of political appointees who share a politician’s ideology and worldview. Since they have no recollection of their own politicians ever having done such a dastardly thing, they consider Trump’s appointment of Musk as his DOGE czar a true “constitutional crisis”. In response their leaders are gathering ragtags of followers on every street corner on which they can erect a mic and attract a camera with the call for all ignorant Americans to assemble in the streets with torches and pitchforks to … RESIST!
Their own lamestream media lackeys have dutifully fallen in line with their own loud echoes of ‘constitutional crisis’. No one seems to have picked up on how ludicrous is this charge. Even the conservative cable news guys have trouble connecting the dots on the howls of the likes of Mad Maxine and Sychophant Schumer trying to get a rise out of the country against Trump, who now enjoys record approval ratings. It seems that only a few late-night conservative comics point out the utter nonsense that the Democrats are purveying.
The obvious counter to silence the Dems on this charge that somehow Musk is taking over the presidency is to point out that politicians ALWAYS appoint people with whose views they are compatible to key positions on the staffs and in their administrations. How the hell did Trump pick all those cabinet members? Was it dumb luck that they all wound up claiming to fly in tight formation with the boss? No one howled when the unelected Rubio, Hegseth, Bessent, … got Trump’s nod to sit in his cabinet and wield some serious unelected power. But all of them, at all times, are careful to point out that they are executing the President’s policies and vision. (In fact, Musk is designated and works as a Special Government Employee – more here.)
And so it is with his other appointments who don’t require congressional confirmation. Musk is one of them, and he too is always careful to point out that he and his DOGE team are in the business of identifying government waste, fraud, mismanagement, redundancy, and incompetence – apparently all the things that Democrats promote and benefit from in the operation of our deep administrative state. Musk tells everyone his job is to identify the problem, its scope, priority, supportive evidence, and possible fix; and then present that to the President. It is the President who then determines what should be done next, not Musk.
The Democrats, whose actions are always an amalgam of stupidity and evil, continue to lie to their constituents, telling them that it is actually Musk who’s in charge and making the executable decisions. And, of course, one of the qualifications for an American to be such a constituent is to always believe the bilge that issues from their Schumers, Pelosis, Clintons, Bookers, Schiffs, … .
My disappointment with the media lies with the conservative side, especially Fox News. They have yet to detail the hypocrisy and lies when reporting on latest progressive outrage from some street corner or talking heads on MSNBC or CNN or … . They simply leave the argument hanging instead of clarifying the matter for their audience.
I want to end with the photo showing Trump sitting calmly at his Resolute Desk while Musk stands nearby with his 4-year-old son explaining some recent DOGE initiative to the press assembled in the Oval Office. The Dems claim this to be a picture showing historical presidential weakness, and confirming that it is Musk who is really in charge. To the rest of us it is a display of comfortable and confident power. The President sitting at his desk quite sanguine about letting one of his lieutenants have a moment in the sun while his position in the administration’s leadership hierarchy is confirmed by the top gun, known by the world to always be in charge of all that he surveys – he need not flaunt anything in the manner of weaker leaders.
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