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Biden's imperial presidency is rising up to
crush us under its boot
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote The Imperial Presidency in
1973 to call to attention President Richard Nixon’s vast abuses of executive
authority to circumvent constitutional limitations of the office.
Democrats have since described a number of Republican presidents,
including Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush as being imperial presidents. But as
Joe Biden continues to push the limits of presidential power over COVID
mandates, gun grabs, bank account reporting and eviction moratoriums, those who
have traditionally rallied against the onset of presidential imperialism are
noticeably silent.
Having just shed the shackles of monarchy, the Founding Fathers
were loath to establish a government with an all-powerful chief executive. To
prevent it, they created a government divided into three equal branches. Their
idea was that each branch would check the other in order to limit the
government’s growth.
In a 2004 re-issue of The
Imperial Presidency, Schlesinger added more recent abuses of
presidential power, including the vast expansion of power laid out in the
Patriot Act and Bush’s unconstitutional wars. Schlesinger died in 2007 before
the onset of the Obama administration and now, Obama 2.0. But even though
Schlesinger was a lifelong Democrat, most historians would probably argue that
the Biden presidency neatly fits into his definition of the imperial president
as did Obama before him.
But the anti-Federalist Cato, thought to be New York Governor
George Clinton, warned in Letter
V to the citizens of New York that the compact under
consideration did not provide strong enough checks and balances. He wrote:
“Before the existence of express political compacts it was
reasonably implied that the magistrate should govern with wisdom and Justice,
but mere implication was too feeble to restrain the unbridled ambition of a bad
man, or afford security against negligence, cruelty, or any other defect of
mind.
“It is alledged that the opinions and manners of the people of
America, are capable to resist and prevent an extension of prerogative or
oppression; but you must recollect that opinion and manners are mutable, and
may not always be a permanent obstruction against the encroachments of
government; that the progress of a commercial society begets luxury, the parent
of inequality, the foe to virtue, and the enemy to restraint; and that ambition
and voluptuousness aided by flattery, will teach magistrates, where limits are
not explicitly fixed to have separate and distinct interests from the people,
besides it will not be denied that government assimilates the manners and
opinions of the community to it.
“Therefore, a general presumption that rulers will govern well is
not a sufficient security. You are then under a sacred obligation to provide
for the safety of your posterity, and would you now basely desert their
interests, when by a small share of prudence you may transmit to them a
beautiful political patrimony, that will prevent the necessity of their
travelling through seas of blood to obtain that, which your wisdom might have
secured: It is a duty you owe likewise to your own reputation, for you have a
great name to lose; you are characterised as cautious, prudent and jealous in
politics; whence is it therefore, that you are about to precipitate yourselves into
a sea of uncertainty, and adopt a system so vague, and which has discarded so
many of your valuable rights.
“Is it because you do not believe that an American can be a
tyrant? If this be the case you rest on a weak basis; Americans are like other
men in similar situations, when the manners and opinions of the community are
changed by the causes I mentioned before, and your political compact
inexplicit, your posterity will find that great power connected with ambition,
luxury, and flattery, will as readily produce a Caesar, Caligula, Nero, and
Domitian in America, as the same causes did in the Roman empire.
Sadly, it turns out he was correct. Congress has abdicated its
responsibility, the Federal judiciary has become the oligarchy Thomas Jefferson
warned about, and the result is we now have an imperial presidency.
Lincoln's legacy
The imperial presidency has its roots in 1861 and Abraham Lincoln,
who had no regard for the Constitution and the rule of law.
The Southern States had every right to secede under the
Constitution. In his inaugural address, President Thomas Jefferson said, “If
there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its
republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with
which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat
it.”
As Judge Andrew P. Napolitano states in his book The Constitution in Exile,
in a later speech Jefferson, discussing the possibility of States seceding,
said, “God bless them both and keep them in the union if it be for their good,
but separate them if it be better.”
“Lincoln’s act of sending troops to Virginia triggered the armed
conflict that became the Civil War,” Napolitano writes. “He did so under the
premise that war was necessary to preserve the union. But the truth is that
Lincoln had several other options to exhaust before resorting to warfare — and
that’s only after we observe that the Southern states had the right to secede
from the Union if they wished to do so.”
Checks and balances?
The three branches, envisioned by the Founders as a set of checks
against one another, became partners in crime. They consolidated their power
over those they governed and set about entrenching themselves and enriching
themselves, their political parties and their cronies.
Following the events of 9/11, Congress granted President George W.
Bush sweeping powers to make war on terrorists and imprison Americans without
trial. Like Lincoln, Bush suspended habeas corpus. Biden wrote and Congress
passed the liberty-crushing USA Patriot Act that gave law enforcement agencies
broad powers to eavesdrop, search and surveil Americans.
Sadly, not only does Congress not care, it is working posthaste to
make it easier for the president to avoid Congress altogether. Recall that
years ago, the Senator supposedly fighting the Democrats on the debt ceiling,
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), himself floated the harebrained notion to give the
president the authority to raise the debt ceiling on his own.
So it’s not enough that the president just ignores Congress,
Congress has decided it wants to give the president carte blanche to ignore it
even further.
Meanwhile, Biden morphs into more of a Third World-style dictator
every day. Recognizing that the Federal government was abdicating its responsibility
to control the border (do illegal immigrants need COVID jabs as they are
allowed to flood into the country?) and guarantee every State a republican form
of government, States have passed sovereignty laws on issues from medical
marijuana to funding abortions to intrastate ammunition and gun sales — oops,
there’s the fallout from the first tyrant president’s actions — to
freedom-stealing COVID laws. All of these have faced cutoffs of funding,
lawsuits and intimidation at the hands of the Mafia-style Federal government.
Ignoring the rule of law, Biden and his cronies lie with impunity,
disregard the Constitution, ignore the laws he doesn’t agree with, do what he
wishes, and is trying to further centralize a government that was created to be
decidedly decentralized.
And Congress? Save for a few lone voices they stand by and pledge
fealty to the imperial presidency.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob
Livingston Letter®
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Answer: A quality
power bank can hold a charge for up to 6 months.
The thing
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temperature the power bank is stored at.
In
addition, lithium-ion, and lithium-polymer batteries used in power banks
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depending on the battery cell quality.)
The
bigger the battery is, the less cycles you will need to charge it and the
longer it will last. But, I would check them every 6 months if I were you.
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Can we still rub out commies like we did did in the 50s through the 70s?
I shudder each time I see this scum speak AND the idiots who surround him.
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