SHIFTY & THE TOAD: A Profile in Dishonor

In mindless lock-step with his dimwitted pals on the now notorious Hill, I am sure you've noticed how asinine "Shifty" Schiff, poster boy for greasy, slimy lawyers everywhere, has suddenly veered from his useless and laughably specious proclamations that he has "proof" of Trump-Russia collusion. His focus is now on the constitutional "duty" of "congressional oversight" of the Executive Branch, the non-existent "constitutional crisis", holding the AG in "contempt of Congress" and encouraging the House's use of "inherent contempt"--the latter used only once in 1935-- which entails the Sergeant-at-Arms being dispatched by the House to seize and detain the AG and any other subpoenaed Executive Branch witnesses to testify before Congress. And, of course, not to be outdone, toady Nadler, hereafter called the "Toad", is talking about introducing a bill which would end the statute of limitations with respect to presidential legal liability for "crimes" or "misdemeanors" committed before and during his time in office. A few things: 1) I carefully scoured the Constitution this morning, and, as suspected, not one syllable of "congressional oversight" appeared in either Art I or Art II; 2) as already discussed in a previous post, there is no "constitutional crisis" because what the Toad is demanding, that being the AG's violating the law, is nothing more than supercilious hokum, pure theater, intentionally disinformational and incredibly lawless in and of itself; 3) Though I can certainly see the usefulness of Congress' acting upon the doctrine of "inherent contempt" in particularly egregious situations, since Mueller found no collusion (which, by the way, isn't a crime unless there was a quid-pro-quo money exchange, which the report does not support), the House's impetuously and foolishly acting on "inherent contempt" would absolutely precipitate a serious constitutional crisis of the first order. And not even Shifty, the Toad or San Fran Nan are that brain-dead; 4) the floundering Demonrats are simply desperate. Always the lock-step party-first hacks, they have no uplifting, sensible agenda for the country, their increasingly annoying messages remain wed to identity politics, and their all-consuming and most likely suicidal interests remain that of destroying Trump at any cost and of extricating their worthless butts from the bowels of irrelevance, betrayal and shame.

ALABAMA CHALLENGES "SUPREME" COURT ON ABORTION

Couldn't be more heartened by Alabama's passage of the country's strictest anti-abortion law.

If nothing else, Alabama is properly asserting its constitutional authority in this matter. Per the 10th Amendment, regulating abortion, helmet laws and myriad other objects are residual state powers, plain and simple. As you know, the feds were never delegated authority by the States to regulate, prohibit or permit abortion. In short, unless a power is explicitly delegated to the federal government or expressly denied to the States, that power exclusively devolves upon the individual States. Not opinion, just constitutional fact! Simply put, authority over abortion manifestly does NOT fall within the fed's constitutional purview, and all serious students of the Constitution know that. (But, hey. What lawyers and judges today have even read the Constitution or, worse, honor it.)

Since the misnamed civil war, States have accepted a submissive role as vassals in this once proud and dynamic "voluntary union of States". In so doing, they have each routinely caved to federal encroachment upon their powers, submission made all the more tantalizing and tolerable by hefty federal handouts and painful memories of federal aggression against uncooperative States. But, at long last, perhaps the States are on the cusp of recovering their sovereignty and re-asserting their constitutional authority, thus reinstating the foundational doctrine of "dual federal-state sovereignty" without which there can be no federal republic or that wonderful laboratory of experimentation among the States which the framers so wisely envisioned.

Political authority over abortion is the battle today, but there remain countless and serious other federal encroachments on State authority which, in time and only with principled courage and leadership, the States must nullify.