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| GARLAND: Never get to see him on high court |
Not only will it mean the end of Merrick Garland (a Chicago-born and suburban Lincolnwood native) as a possibility for the nation’s high court, it will finally put us in a position where we can see if the new president is actually capable of working with government to get things done.
FOR
ALL WE’VE seen him do thus far is issue multitudes of executive orders, many of
which the Washington Post reports are not really executive orders – but presidential
memorandums.
As
in Donald J. makes grand pronouncements on various issues, mostly to express
attitudes desired by the nativist-leaning ideologues who actually voted for him
to be president.
Or
also to make statements meant to repudiate whatever had happened during the
past eight years. In short, we have seen nothing more than “President You’re
Fired!” bellowing like a buffoon. The encouraging part of all this is that
nothing has occurred that can’t easily be undone when the day comes that we get
a real-live grownup working in the Oval Office.
In
fact, it has become the reality of the U.S. presidency that whenever the post
changes to someone of an opposition political party, executive orders are issued
to undo many of the general principles espoused by the previous administration.
SUCH
AS THE “Mexico City Policy” by which Republican administrations have told
federal agencies not to do anything that would encourage abortion in foreign
nations. Democratic presidents, including Barack Obama, always did away with
the policy.
But
all this is a matter of making pronouncements, being president at the moments
when you speak and people are supposed to just listen. Actually offering their
own opinions, or taking actions intended to refute you, hasn’t been a part of
Trump’s presidential experience.
Not
yet!
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| TRUMP: Will we ever see him govern? |
We’ll see in evaluating his pick for the high court just how much of a legal mind he wants. Or is he looking for someone who will forevermore think of his allegiance to Trump himself. Is Trump capable of making an independent pick, then getting it through the political mechanizations of Congress?
ALTHOUGH
FOR THAT matter, it could wind up being a pick that was made by the Republican
establishment that spent the bulk of 2016 ensuring that Barack Obama did not
actually get to pick three individuals (out of nine total) to the Supreme
Court. Because it was bad enough, in their minds, that he got two picks and was
able to undermine (with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan) the vision they have
of an all-white, male establishment.
Is
Trump merely the errand boy the ideologue establishment of Congress plans to
use to ram through their own agenda for our society – allowing Donald J’s ego
to be bloated even moreso because it will serve their purposes? And take the blame when their ideals are found to be offensive by the true majority of people in our society! Is Trump so eager to be "president" that he's willing to be besmirched by the conservative ideologues amongst us?
Would
Trump be willing to speak out if the GOP agenda doesn’t strictly match his own?
Would that become the potential breaking point that could make the next four
years even goofier than the current conservative mess we have now? Is political civil war what we're in for, the "right" versus the "alt-right," with rational people sitting on the sidelines and trying not to get caught in the crossfire?
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| Trump about to leave his imprint on this particular hallowed hall. Will he soil it? Photograph provided by Supreme Court of the United States |
Tylenol; as in we’ll all going to be using massive doses for the national headache our society will develop from observing all the nonsense done in coming months and years in the name of partisan politics.
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