We resolve policy disputes by elections, not impeachments nationalreview.com/2019/11/trump-…
It is the president, not the bureaucracy, who was elected by the American people. That puts him — not the National Security Council, the State Department, the intelligence community, the military, and their assorted subject-matter experts — in charge of making policy.
If we’re to remain a constitutional republic, that’s how it has to stay.
The government’s policy community has gotten so political, it has forgotten that its mission is to implement the president’s policies, not undermine them.
It is vital to have a solid policy community because the responsibilities of the presidency are too varied and extensive for any single person to master everything. The president needs the experts’ knowledge and wisdom at the ready.
Yet their job is to try to guide the president to good policy, not usurp his role. The president’s decisions carry the day. Bureaucrats are not free to substitute their judgments for the president’s.
If they can’t accept that, the honorable thing is to resign, à la Bolton and Mattis. Remaining in place to countermand the elected chief executive is not an option.
We’ve moved way beyond that, though. Democrats are now scheming with fellow progressives in the policy community to achieve their three-year longing to impeach President Trump.
Note that when @MarkSZaidEsq was applauding @SallyQYates, he couldn’t resist adding that a “coup” had been spawned by an internal government “rebellion,” which he took as assurance that “impeachment will follow.”
Never forget: The coup is driven by policy differences.
Never forget: The coup is driven by policy differences.
The Left will tell you it’s not — it’s driven by lawlessness. But the Left treats all disagreement with its policy preferences as lawlessness. And when it can’t pull that off, it slanders the dissenters as outlaws.
That’s how, with a Supreme Court slot on the line, a widely admired jurist with a peerless record of mentoring his law clerks, mostly women, into high professional achievements somehow becomes a serial rapist.
We don’t have to agree with the president in order to agree that he is president. We can fight against his policies when they are wrongheaded, but we can’t fight against his authority to make policy. That fight is what elections are for . . . not impeachments.
Otherwise, American self-government — the accountability of the policy maker to the voters whose lives are affected — collapses.
via @AndrewCMcCarthy
via @AndrewCMcCarthy
