No Checks, No Balances
As young Americans grow up, we are told that their country is superior to all others, largely on the basis that we are all free to act according to our wishes, and the only thing reining in our choices is rule of law, i.e., that there is one set of laws that applies equally to each and every one of us.
Speaking for myself, I sure was proud of this. I remember how sorry I felt for people who lived behind the Iron Curtain, or in other lands were some ruler, who was above the law, could do as he pleased at the expense of his subjects.
As ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich points out here, we’re experiencing a massive breakdown of this great principal that lies at the core of the United States. How far this is going to go, and where this is ultimately going to land is anyone’s guess. But how much worse can it get than overt collusion between the branches of government that were designed to provide checks and balances?
Craig,
This impeachment process is completely political. Since before the President was even inaugurated, the Democrats, “never trumpers’ and leftist media began calling for impeachment!
Hounding the ‘bad Orange MAn’ in the White House has become an ever more desperate and unbalanced obsession. (you’re a good example).
The lies and desperate distortions by Democrats in the House have left deep scars and a nation bitterly divided.
The problem for the Democrats is, as unorthodox and unusual as President Trump style of President maybe, his behavior is doesn’t constitute an offense against the constitution.
The people elected him, and will have the opportunity to do so again in a years time.
Attempting to subvert the electoral process because you believe “the election is too import to leave to the people to decide”, no that really is unconstitutional, and dangerous to US democracy.
As the impeachment process collapses due to the corrupt and reckless manner in which it was launched, the American people are beginning to receive disturbing information from the IG and next year from a special DoG investigator.
The tide has very much turned in the President’s favour.