Unsurprising.
While Republicans rolled back some of Biden’s military cuts and managed to end the vaccine mandate for the military, they failed to reinstate military personnel forced out due to the mandate, they did nothing about wokeness in the military, which at this point is so great a threat that spending hundreds of billions on weapons systems is practically surplus to requirements if there will be no one reliable to operate them.
And the military purge of “extremists” launched by Biden’s political operatives has not been checked.
The “big win” here is a non-binding statement criticizing the political purge of opponents.
The final bill largely eschews issues related to the Pentagon’s efforts to root out extremism, but the Senate Armed Services Committee’s report accompanying its version of the bill calls for those plans to be curtailed, though the language is nonbinding.
The report language was added by Republicans with the backing of Sen. Angus King (I-Maine). It argues that the low instances of extremism in the ranks “does not warrant a Department-wide effort.” It further argues that the Pentagon anti-extremism effort “is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds, and should be discontinued by the Department of Defense immediately.”
Which everyone is free to ignore.
This is a lawless administration whose Treasury and State Department are in violation of federal law by refusing to comply with SIGAR, the watchdog on Afghanistan. The Biden administration has responded to court setbacks on its student loan bailout or open borders by doubling down.
Senate Republicans get to claim that they did something by way of a non-binding statement in a report.
Mission accomplished.
Excellent analysis.
Apparently, there are no consequences for D’rat lawlessness. D’rats are not afraid of the constitutional or legal consequences for acting lawlessly. The constitutionally mandated two-thirds vote required to either expel a Member of Congress, or convict and remove an impeached Executive Branch Officer or Judicial Branch Officer is not realistically achievable except in the most egregious of cases. Likewise, the D’rats are not afraid of prosecution by the DOJ. (For D’rats, the DOJ is the Department of ‘Just Us,’ and/or D’rat favorable ‘kangaroo court’ jurisdictions.) And ditto for negative national media coverage for a D’rat offender. In our Federal Government today, consequences for lawlessness only moves in one direction–toward the Republicans (i.e., toward those ‘Republicans’ who are either too dumb, or whom the D’rats can’t bully, haven’t ‘bought,’ and thus don’t like). It’s a sorry state of affairs but a very large percentage of American voters (how large? large enough) allow it to happen in election after election. It is the price that a ‘democracy’ (i.e., a constitutional republic) must pay to exist.
There are no consequences as long as there remain responsible parties able to swoop in to the rescue to forestall collapse and catastrophe.
The extirpation of this likelihood is the subject of the article.
Hitler and Stalin probably did about the same and Mao and Castro as well Only the most Loyal to serve a Dictator or more like Emperor Palpatine who was aa Senator got himself elected President then declared himself as Emperor. All Biden has to do is wear a dark hooded robe and tick and look as ugly and have his Imperial Storm Troopers in White Body Armor to do his bidding and confiscated our Guns/Blasters/Phasers and his loyal Palace Guards in their red outfits