Expect the D.C. Administrative State to Defend Itself by Any Means Necessary

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-24 13:05:54 | Updated at 2024-11-24 15:56:24 3 hours ago

Expect the D.C. Administrative State to Defend Itself by Any Means Necessary
American Thinker ^ | 24 Nov, 2024 | William Sullivan

Posted on 11/24/2024 4:51:54 AM PST by MtnClimber

We do not live in anything resembling the nation that was envisioned by our Founders, and for the first time in modern American history, we seem to have reached a consensus in recognizing that fact.

This was just dramatically evidenced in a presidential election, in which a broad coalition of voters from the political left and right voted overwhelmingly for a Donald Trump, who promised to create a “government efficiency commission” to be headed by Elon Musk.

SNIP

Lowi observed, writes Mark Steyn in After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) were “set up by a Congress that didn’t identify a single policy goal for these agencies and ‘provided no standards whatsoever’ for their conduct.”

“Where do you go to vote out the CPSC or OSHA?” Steyn asks. You can’t, of course, and while that’s obviously the point today, it was apparently less obvious back then. Unelected, unaccountable, faceless bureaucrats have been given multi-billion-dollar budgets by Congress to craft policies that infringe upon even the most mundane aspects of American life.

Steyn recalls that the “end-of-life counseling” language (i.e., death panels, or that maybe you’d be better off “taking a painkiller,” according to Barack Obama) was eventually stripped from 2010’s wildly unpopular Obamacare legislation after it became public knowledge. But that doesn’t really matter, Steyn says, because there are over 1,000 references within the bill to all the things that the Secretary of Health and Human Services “shall” or “may” determine.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bidenbois4ww3; deepstate

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1 posted on 11/24/2024 4:51:54 AM PST by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

It seems that entire agencies will need to be scrapped. I am sure that will create a firestorm in DC. I will get popcorn.

2 posted on 11/24/2024 4:52:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)

To: MtnClimber

3 posted on 11/24/2024 4:54:37 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)

To: MtnClimber

You mean like going so far as starting WWIII today?

“Ukraine may direct its next strike with Western missiles at the Rostov region. There are many facilities there that could be a target for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, reports The Wall Street Journal.”

4 posted on 11/24/2024 4:55:00 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )

To: MtnClimber

Government reform is working when the housing prices in the 1M-5M range in the greater dc metro tank. 100k goverment firings the first month is in order and 500k-1M by year three.

5 posted on 11/24/2024 4:56:10 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )

To: MtnClimber

Of course they need to be scrapped. But when that was first suggested by Ron Paul years ago he was ridiculed by this board and the whole establishment GOP.

How about that, now we are full circle back to waking up about reality...

6 posted on 11/24/2024 4:57:08 AM PST by Openurmind

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