Politics & Government
Republicans DON'T CARE That The Laws Are Faithfully Executed
Craven Elected Oregon Republicans DON'T CARE That The Laws Are Faithfully Executed By Trump Or Anyone In His Administration.
State Rep. Andy McKean, Iowa’s longest-serving Republican, said he was registering as a Democrat because Trump sets a “poor example for the nation.” He says he can no longer support President Donald Trump and the views of the GOP.
McKean also criticized Trump’s financial policies, his “erratic, destabilizing” foreign policy and his inaction on environmental issues as reasons for his departure. He also highlighted Trump’s offensive rhetoric, calling the president a “bully.”
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“Furthermore, [Trump] sets, in my opinion, a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children by personally insulting, often in a crude and juvenile fashion, those who disagree with him, being a bully at a time when we’re attempting to discourage bullying, his frequent disregard for the truth, and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearance, ethnicity or disability,” the representative said.*1
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Mr. McKean, 69, became one of several state lawmakers who have abandoned the Republican Party in recent months, citing Mr. Trump as a factor. At least four state lawmakers in Kansas switched allegiances after the midterms, as have a California State Assembly member and a state senator in New Jersey.*2
Are any of Oregon’s elected Republicans ready to join these enlightened elected Republicans who are disenchanted and disgusted with Trump and the Republican party? NOPE. Not a one.
After reminding all of Oregon’s elected Republicans about some items in the news about which they are surely very familiar (see below), I asked them the following question:
Is there anything in Trump’s undeniable narcissistic personality disorder behavior since his inauguration, his retreat on his promises to not touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, his order to the DOJ to oppose the Affordable Care Act with the potential result being the denial of health care to more than 20 million Americans, including 372,000 Oregonians, the multiple revelations of Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice in the Mueller report and the entrance of Bill Weld into the Republican primary, that individually or collectively has persuaded you that Donald Trump has not upheld his oath of office to faithfully execute the laws of our country and is therefore not fit to be President of the United States of America?
They all indicated, NO. They are proud to wear their MAGA hats while proclaiming that Donald Trump is still fit to be President of the United States of America. These craven Oregon Trumpian leaders*3 have proved time and again that they will abandon facts, the law, competent if not good government and the basic principles of our American democracy to advance their primary objective as a political party which is to transfer as much of America’s and Oregon’s wealth to the richest individuals and corporations especially those in the Republican donor class. The common good e.g. protecting the planet, its air and water is anathema to them. Their values are not the values of our great state of Oregon and our country. Oregonians need to challenge these deniers and defilers of our democracy with their votes and voices.
Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare*4
Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.
Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid, $25 billion less on Social Security and $845 billion less on Medicare over the next 10 years.
The Mueller Report
When former Attorney General Jeff Sessions told President Donald Trump that a special counsel had been appointed to conduct the Russia investigation, the president responded: “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.”*5
These are not the spontaneous thoughts of the innocent but the instant, uncontrollable, unalloyed lament of the guilty.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney*6
I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President. I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia—including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine.
Republican Bill Weld*7
Republican primary challenger former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, says Donald Trump is a "one-man crime wave” who “committed obstruction of justice.”
Oath of Office - The President’s Primary Responsibility*8
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires the President to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This clause, known as the Take Care Clause, requires the President to enforce all constitutionally valid Acts of Congress, regardless of his own Administration's view of their wisdom or policy.
Richard Nixon - Articles of Impeachment*9
By far the most important article of impeachment approved by the House committee on a bipartisan basis was Article II, which called for the punishment of Nixon for abusing presidential power by using the executive agencies (such as the Internal Revenue Service) to punish his enemies and for failing to uphold the oath of office to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” It also said, significantly, that a president could be held accountable for a pattern of abusive or even illegal behavior by his aides.
Trump’s Propaganda Machine’s Fox News’ Senior Judicial Analyst, Joe Napolitano, Says “TRUMP OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE.”
The president's job is to enforce federal law. But ordering obstruction to save himself from the consequences of his own behavior is unlawful, defenseless and condemnable.*10
Richard Ellmyer
North Portland
NAV, Non-Aligned Voter
Author of The Ellmyer Report, a newsletter that informs, educates and influences on public policy. Occasionally distributed to more than a quarter of million readers in Oregon and beyond. Facebook, Portland Politics Plus . Opinion contributor to Patch.com news.
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