Memo: Confusion & A Question

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

 

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

 

To: President Joe Biden

From: The Madison Conservative

Subj: Confusion and a question

 

Dear Mr. President,

We understand you’re busy so we’ll try and make this quick. This whole situation with Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border is of course troublesome and no doubt is occupying most of your time. Nobody wants to see countries invaded, but given Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and the EU, especially Germany, seems content to avoid engaging in the issue, why are so many in the political class being so apoplectic about it? You gave away our energy independence, and then gave permission to Russia to complete their pipeline in order to become the largest energy supplier to Europe. We’re not sure what all of this has to do with Ukraine, but it leads us to a single question we believe needs to be answered, the sooner the better.

Does Ukraine have some special hold on you?

We mean no disrespect, sir, but something surely seems amiss when it comes to you and Ukraine.

Please consider the following.

Your son Hunter, who had absolutely no energy management experience or skill, somehow secured a position on the board of Ukraine’s largest natural gas company, Burisma.  Now to be fair, given you were vice-president at the time, you would have to forgive folks from thinking that giving a high-priced job to an unqualified individual with powerful connections might sound just a bit unethical. Naturally, officials in the Ukrainian government must have thought so as well, and those suspicions formed the basis of their investigation into Burisma.

You have demonstrated your frustration and anger when you believe you have been misquoted, so to avoid raising your ire, here is the quote you gave with respect to the lead Ukrainian investigator. In your own words, as you regaled your audience on the particulars:

 

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” you recalled telling Prime Minister Poroshenko.

“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHWU5jDQ2w

To be honest Mr. President, a Vice-president of the United States injecting himself into such an issue which involves a family member sure sounds unethical to a lot of the electorate. It smacks of a bully pushing people around for his own pleasure.

An ugly presentation to be sure.

You spoke about President Trump being a dictator for asking the head of another country to investigate a political rival of his. You whined that such a request was a stain on this nation and thus you supported the impeachment and removal from office of President Trump.  Trump’s explanation for asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate you was that you tried to quash an investigation into a Ukrainian company on whose board of directors Hunter served. If you check the tape from which we quoted, that’s exactly what you did, and what you bragged about. It seems disgustingly hypocritical to claim somebody is a stain on democracy who was simply attempting to bring clarity to what you acknowledged you did.

You and the political left pounced on Trumps phone call with the Ukrainian leader as the foundation for his imbecilic impeachment.

You had a conversation this week with the Ukrainian Prime Minister on the issue of Russia, and the reporting is in absolute conflict. It could be cleared up if you would do as Trump did and release the transcript of the call.

Summing up, you and your son have engaged in questionable dealings with Ukraine, a phone call to Ukraine was used to impeach a United States President, and you are using Ukraine as an instigation to foment fear throughout the western world.

We have a single question, Mr. President.

What is it with you and Ukraine?

A nation waits for the answer.

 

 

 

 

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The Supreme Court - 1/26/22

 

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

 

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

On January 26^th, 2022, it was announced that Associate Justice Stephen Breyer would be retiring at the end of the court’s term in June 2023.Bottom of Form

The Supreme Court is the third arm of American government, the body that was intended to ensure that neither the Executive branch – the President, and the Legislative – the House and Senate, did not attempt to assert more power and control than was their due within the framework of the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court was intended to be the impartial arbiter of Justice. They were not to be swayed by political winds, hence their lifetime appointments. There have of course, been Courts that may have slanted more liberal and more conservative.

Consider for the moment a football field, hash lines and all. As presented within Americas governing document an understanding that the court should never be beyond the forty-yard line in either direction. What has happened is that both parties have had majorities standing on their respective 1 yard lines, doing all they can to pull the court in their direction, believing that a central-centered court is an untenable situation.  In short, they are trying to ensure that Lady Justice will be able to sneak a peek under her blindfold.

Luckily for America, neither party has been successful in their attempts to pull the court past that discussed forty-yard defining position.

Sadly, the Court has begun showing signs of engaging in moments of political partiality.

Consider the recent arguments before the Court on the constitutionality of the Biden administration vaccine mandates. The three left-centric Justices all made comments during oral arguments that belied they partisanship. Justice Elena Kagan commented that mandating the vaccines was the policy "most geared" to help stop Covid-19.

A Supreme Court Justice should not feel emboldened to offer either medical or legislative commentary while seated on the bench deciding an issue of law. It is a dangerous precedent to afford this right to any judge, anywhere.

 

Not to be outdone, Justice Stephen Breyer offered additional commentary that had nothing to do with the United States Constitution. He intoned that the mandates imposed by Biden through the back-door OSHA gambit was needed because “hospitals are full almost to the point of maximum” and that “750 million new cases” had been reported in the US yesterday.

As noted, a Supreme Court Justice should focus on the Constitution and the law, no wildly erroneous drivel. As a side note, the population of the United States is roughly 350 million. Forgive us the snark, but we believe that if everybody had gotten Covid TWICE the day before, surely it would have made the evening news.

The most egregious case of judicial misconduct was given by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In attempting to validate her belief that the illegal mandates were in fact constitutional, she proffered these comments. “Omicron is as deadly as Delta … we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators.”

“We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition,” Sotomayor added, “and many on ventilators.” Absolutely none of it was remotely true. Research from across the political media spectrum determined that the number of children hospitalized was closer to 3,500.

Apparently blinded by political ideology, the three Justices voted to anoint the mandates as legal. Luckily, they were overruled by the six Justices who have apparently actually read the Constitution.

Where this all brings us is to the Breyer vacancy.  We understand and support the axiom that elections have consequences, so Joe Biden, as president, will have the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. We will address the confirmation hearings when they approach.

Our concern is that somehow selecting Justices is no longer focused on obtaining a candidate who is among the best and brightest. On the campaign trail, Biden made the absolutely pandering for votes decision to promise if elected, he would nominate a woman of color to the bench.

The Madison Conservative will acknowledge we have a heightened passion and reverence for the United States Constitution.

We cannot fathom why any politician would make such an outright stupid comment.

The extreme political left – those still screeching on the 1-yard line – are now clamoring for Biden to honor his pledge, and as expected, he has said he will indeed choose a woman of color.

This is alarming for several reasons.

1 – In one fell swoop, he has removed more than half of the eligible candidates from consideration.

2 – He has guaranteed to add to the national division. No doubt any questioning of the nominee will be blasted as racist, and not congressional due diligence.

3  - He has assured that a cloud of preference surrounds the new Justice. She will be forever tainted with the belief she was chosen for gender and pigment qualifications alone. Absolutely unfair, but the fact is such situations, perception becomes reality.

4 – Biden has again demonstrated his bold-faced disdain for his presidential oath. If he had kept his mouth shut on the issue, it is believable that the best qualified candidate would be a woman of color, and as such the national debate could begin on her judicial philosophy. Biden’s choice to no longer “preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution for his own personal power should disgust every citizen.

Biden demonstrated his cowardice by abandoning Americans behind Taliban lines in his retreat from Afghanistan. His actions and choices are now risking Americans here at home.

 

 

 

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The Biden Press Conference - 1-19-2022 A Commentary

 

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

 

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

 

The President of the United States held a press conference yesterday (1/19/22). Reviews of his performance range from it being a masterful example of leadership to it being an absolute train-wreck of incoherence.Top of Form

The Madison Conservative opts not to comment on the performance as we believe it falls into the category of political theater.

With that declaration, however, we believe that the factual errors must be addressed. This post will be a cursory overview of Biden’s blatant lies; subsequent posts will delve into each issue as independent discussions.

In no particular order:

1 – JOBS – Biden and his administration keep touting that they have created more jobs in a single year than any administration in history, believing the number justify their claim. The fact is that after the economic shutdown of 2020, the reopening of the economy was going to have a surge of people returning to work. The truth is that if Daffy Duck had been elected, he could claim his policies resulted in the same numbers. People were going to go back to work – Biden had no hand in it.

1A – UNEMPLOYMENT – Biden claims his policies have resulted in record unemployment, now under 4 percent. He fails to follow that statistic with the fact that the labor participation rate has also fallen. In other words, there are fewer people looking for work, who have stopped looking for work, so naturally the percentages will fall. The only part Biden has played is his policy of paying people to stay home. It is unsustainable. The reckoning is coming, and Biden has no plan to address it.

2-VACCINES – Biden continually attempts to take credit for the number of shots in arms, spewing forth numbers that demonstrate how few Americans were vaccinated when he took office as opposed to the hundreds of millions now with at least one shot. The fact is that both he and the vice-president – who trash talked the vaccines during the campaign – were among the first people vaccinated in December, 2020. Biden never acknowledges the herculean efforts of President Trump who handed off three vaccines to him. Starting at zero, Biden's numbers had no where else to go but up. Taking credit for someone else's work is infuriating. The next time this administration touts the vaccine number, remember to ask them where they got them from in the first place.

 

3 - VOTING RIGHTS – Biden stumbled into office holding high the banner of unity, claiming he would be the ‘uniter-in-chief’.  At his press conference, he then claimed that unless his voting rights bill was passed,  Republicans would thwart the minority community’s ability to vote. The disgusting nature of such a claim is beneath the dignity of his office and this Constitutional discussion platform  to address. There are two salient points to make that perhaps the president has forgotten. His attempt to federalize all elections – wildly unconstitutional – was voted down because DEMOCRATS sided with reality. It is a warning sign that 48 Democrats thought acting unconstitutionally was a good idea. Secondly, the political left’s obsession with changing voting laws was predicated on the belief that Georgia’s voting law was ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Aside from the fact it was Democrats who instituted the Jim Crow laws, nobody seems to have made note that the Georgia law makes it EASIER to vote. In addition, Georgia is much less restrictive than, say, Delaware, the President's home state. Given his almost 50 year political career, he never sought to address the crushing Delaware election laws.

We could continue to delineate the leader of the free worlds’ lies and hypocrisy, but we believe the point has been made on the topics he was asked about. We will address his foreign policy comments in a subsequent post, and as noted a deeper dive into the topics written about here.

A final thought is the curious omission by the press corps on asking Biden if he had an accurate and current number of Americans he abandoned during his cowardly retreat from Afghanistan.  Our fellow citizens must not be forgotten, and Biden must be held to account and answer for his cowardice.

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The November 11th, 1755 Warning

 

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

 

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

 

 

The Madison Conservative was founded with the intent of bringing the United States Constitution into the discourse of public policy. Far too many times we heard that an opposing policy platform was a matter of a ‘constitutional crisis’. In more than 230 years and counting, the United States has actually never faced a ‘constitutional crisis’. The founders and framers gave their nation a well-reasoned set of rules, including a set plan for amending it as the nation would see fit. As of today, there are 27 amendments to our Constitution. One amendment even undoes the effect of another. For those unaware, the amendment enacting Prohibition was shortly reversed.

The point is that as a matter of historical truth, all that has kept this the greatest nation the world has ever seen is but a piece of paper. It has never been in ‘crisis’, because as a society

 we have accepted its clear and specific limitations on the power of government over those whom it governs.

What the Madison Conservative finds appalling is the scope of how much the Biden administration has opted to assault our most august founding document.

A phrase that has been widely accepted as coming from a letter by Benjamin Franklin has helped to guide this country when would-be dictators try end runs around the Constitution.

To wit:

 

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

 

The comment is from a letter dated November 11^th, 1755 on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the provincial governor over funding for security on the frontier.

There has been an effort of sorts by some historians to dilute Franklin’s intent by offering “context”.

As the saying goes, when the facts are against you, argue ‘context’.

This is where the Biden administration finds itself today.

A new administration will always pursue their own ideological agenda – that’s what elections are for. There is often no constitutional question with regard to those policy choices, and so The Madison Conservative opts not to engage in policy disputes.

 

What is alarming however is how often during this first year of Biden’s presidency is how often the argument turns to ‘context’ in the face of an absolute disregard for the United States Constitution and the basic rule of law.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the unconstitutionality of Biden’s vaccine mandates is emblematic of a United States President acting as a totalitarian. Each time the Supreme Court rules against the Biden administration, the political left makes the imbecilic claim that democracy itself is under assault and the only remedy is to add justices to the court in sufficient numbers to assure that unconstitutional acts are deemed to be, in fact, fully legal. They say, in context of course, that the current number of nine justices is arbitrary, so changing the number is not an assault on the Constitution. There have been nine justices for more than 150 years.

So much for context.

The most abhorrent issue, and absolutely unconstitutional, is hearing the President of the United States acknowledge that his policies “probably won’t pass constitutional muster” but in the meantime his administration can “get stuff done.” – (August 3^rd, 2021)

What should enrage every citizen is that Biden justifies his conduct on the holy altar of protecting Americans. He spews his disgust at the unvaccinated whom he credits with killing other citizens. He expects America to blindly follow all of his edicts because he is trying to keep us safe. His context is predicated on allegiance to him based on fear.

Consider again Franklin’s warning.

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

 

Biden has attempted to utilize Covid-19 aas the root justification for his attempted conversion of America to a socialist paradise. It is important for the electorate to remember that the best defense America has is its belief in the Constitution. It has thwarted the political left at every turn.

The United States Constitution is not about a political agenda. It IS about the rules all politicians must obey in their pursuit of any given agenda.

 

As of this post, Joe Biden has been the leader of the free world for less than one year. The debates on his policies will continue, but his assault upon the United States Constitution must stop NOW. The only way that can happen is for every citizen to make their voice heard.

Failure to do so will only embolden further degradation of our rights. We must remain vigilant to Franklin’s wisdom.

 

 

 

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