These republican presidential debates have revealed
very little about where candidates stand on the issues. Most questions are “he said this about you,
do you have a response?” I’m sick of
that crap! I can recall only a couple of
times when substantive issues were brought forth that actually piqued my
interest and changed my mind about a candidate.
One was centered on the 14th Amendment and birthright
citizenship, the other was about Kim Davis and religious freedom. Carly Fiornia lost my support because of
those two issues.
I can recall only a couple of times when a debate broke out during these inquisitions. Fox Business had
the courtesy to sit back and allow Rand Paul, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush hash
out tariff policies. What a welcomed
change.
There might have been other issues that I missed,
simply because I get bored and diverted my attention to something of substance
such as an article or a book.
An issue that really needs to be addressed is the weaponization
of the federal bureaucracy. How are
these candidates going to address a branch of government that is antagonistic
to their agenda? What are they going to
do about bureaucrats that target conservatives?
This is a serious problem. Even
USA Today wrote about the lawlessness in Washington D.C.
The first sad lesson is that the notion of an
impartial, professional civil service is a fiction. The big government
designs of Democrats and the federal bureaucracy are aligned, and the
bureaucracy often deploys its powers in ways calculated to
frustrateRepublican presidents and to protect Democratic
ones.
This
is an open secret in Washington, leading Bloomberg View writer Megan McArdle to
comment that even if elected, a President Trump wouldn’t change
much because the bureaucracy wouldn’t go along:
“Anything
that gets done by Washington must be done by the civil service. These folks are
lifers. You can’t fire them. Because of the abovementioned legislative
compromises required, you also can’t push a bill through that will let you fire
them. And they — not the president, and not the cabinet secretaries — are the
folks who do most of what government does. The president can wave his hands
like Jean-Luc Picard and say, ‘Make it so.’ But if they don’t wanna, they ain’t
gonna.
That is the honest truth. Progressives constantly declare we live in a
democracy. How is this democracy when
bureaucrats do as they damn well please without fear of retribution? How is this democracy when your vote can be
canceled out by a bureaucrat with an agenda?
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