It’s a matter of political will…that, and firepower.Why is it that it is illegal for me to print my own money I don't have? Bidumb does it?
It’s a matter of political will…that, and firepower.Why is it that it is illegal for me to print my own money I don't have? Bidumb does it?
The problem now becomes, the stretching of the term emergency.This was interesting and I had not heard this before, Bidet administration says they are using an old law not an EO.
How long before they find a law that made guns illegal in 1870 and try to enforce it?
“The administration says its authority comes from the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students, or HEROES, Act of 2003, which was passed after the Sept. 11 attacks and authorizes the education secretary to forgive student loans during specific periods such as a war or national emergency. The various plaintiffs have argued that the HEROES Act doesn’t allow for debt relief in the manner proposed.”
Education Department 'undeterred' after debt relief blocked
Nearly 22 million borrowers applied for loan forgiveness in the week since the application opened.www.insidehighered.com
Yep. It already means something to let us do whatever we want as long as we want to get around the rules.The problem now becomes, the stretching of the term emergency.
Though I guess that bridge was crossed already, stretching emergency.
Well, duh. I don’t give Biden credit for thinking this through, but it’s probably a good PR move. At least a little. Promise things you know are unconstitutional, knowing that a progressive judge would be just fine with that unconstitutional use of executive power. A conservative judge would not. Eventually the courts would stop the order. And then Biden can blame conservatives.Federal judge strikes down Biden student debt relief program
District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, ruled that the program, which would have provided borrowers with up to $20,000 in student loan relief, was “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’…thehill.com
Plus all through early voting and the actual election they convinced people they would get $10 to 20k off the top and even had a website open to apply for it. They paid for votes with promises they knew were likely emptyWell, duh. I don’t give Biden credit for thinking this through, but it’s probably a good PR move. At least a little. Promise things you know are unconstitutional, knowing that a progressive judge would be just fine with that unconstitutional use of executive power. A conservative judge would not. Eventually the courts would stop the order. And then Biden can blame conservatives.
In context, the saddest words I have read this morning.and it worked.
It's in the same vein as the tiresome old trope attempts by the left to play the older generation by scaring them in to voting for them because "Republicans want kill them by taking away their Medicare and SS" when in reality Republicans only want to reform those before it's too late and those benefits are lost for everyone.Part of me wants to laugh at how they got played. The bigger part of me wants to break something because we got screwed by them getting played.
Idunno. I’m not sure some canvasser handing you a filled out ballot to sign counts for voting bragging rights.