Impeachment Farce: Senator Leahy (D) Will Preside Rather Than Chief Justice Roberts

By William Teach January 26, 2021 – 6:45 am

Do these people even Constitution?

Republicans object after Sen. Leahy announces he, not Chief Justice Roberts, will preside over impeachment trial

Move OnAs the Senate prepares to conduct an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump, Republicans are criticizing the procedural development — that Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over the trial.

Instead, Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will preside over the trial. Leahy, the most senior Democrat in the chamber, announced Monday he will hold the gavel and pledged to deliver “impartial justice.”

“The president pro tempore has historically presided over Senate impeachment trials of non-presidents. When presiding over an impeachment trial, the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and its laws. It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously,” Leahy said.

“I consider holding the office of the president pro tempore and the responsibilities that come with it to be one of the highest honors and most serious responsibilities of my career. When I preside over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, I will not waver from my constitutional and sworn obligations to administer the trial with fairness, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws.”

Got that? One of the jurors will also be the judge. One who has previously voted to convict Trump. You ask how this is Constitutional? It cannot be. Article 1 Section 3 paragraph 6

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

It specifically says that the Chief Justice must preside. Democrats are attempting to say they can do this because Trump is no longer the sitting president. If that’s the case, then they are not actually impeaching/convicting under the rules of the Constitution, meaning this is an illegal, unconstitutional trial of a private citizen.

However, that does not preclude Republicans from complaining. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told The Hill that having Leahy preside over the trial “really undermines the legitimacy.”

“The Constitution requires that the chief justice preside over the impeachment trial of a president but that’s not what we’re doing. To me that’s indicative of the fact that we’re in uncharted waters,” he said.

“I just think it looks very petty and vindictive and I understand there are a lot of people who are mad but the process itself already looks like a railroad job,” Cornyn added.

“If the chief justice doesn’t preside, I think it’s an illegitimate hearing and really goes to show that it’s not really constitutional to impeach someone who’s not president,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Republicans should first stand up and object to the entire sham., then boycott. Senator Paul writes this

Well, impeachment is a tool to remove someone from office. That’s it. The Constitution specifically forbids any legal action that targets any one private individual.

There’s lots of information in his piece, such as no Republicans calling to impeach Bernie Sanders when his supporter shot Steve Scalise.

I am more than willing to work with Democrats to find common ground on protecting civil liberties or ending some of our many foreign military interventions, but no unity or common ground will be found while Democrats continue to fight the last election. This so-called impeachment is a farce and should be dismissed before it is even allowed to begin.

Paul says he will call to end it, and then boycott if it continues. All Republicans should simply refuse to participate. Don’t bother showing up. Same with any Trump lawyers. Let Democrats have their little charade, one which will never see 67 Senators vote to convict. So, don’t participate. Let the Dems have their unhinged Sore Winner festival. Don’t be part of it.

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Biden Plans More Climate Crisis (scam) Policies Or Something

By William Teach January 25, 2021 – 3:00 pm

And, supposedly, he will demand China toughen their targets

Biden administration to unveil more climate policies, urges China to toughen emissions target

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration next week will release more policies it believes are needed to tackle climate change and is urging China to toughen one of its targets on greenhouse gas emissions, his top climate advisers said on Saturday.

Gina McCarthy, the White House’s national climate adviser, did not say what policies would be released. A memo seen by Reuters on Thursday showed Biden will unveil a second round of executive orders as soon as Jan. 27 that include an omnibus order to combat climate change domestically and elevate the issue as a national security priority.

“We’ve already sent signals on the things that we don’t like that we’re going to roll back, but this week you’re going to see us move forward with what’s the vision of the future,” McCarthy told a virtual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Ah, won’t say, eh? These should be some doozies, all while the elites pushing them refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral. And you know that it will be bad for the economy, especially during the COVID recovery

John Kerry, Biden’s special climate envoy, said a recent pledge by China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, was “not good enough.” In September, Chinese President Jinping set a goal for his country to become carbon neutral by 2060, 10 years after the 2050 time frame favored by most countries, while also pledging a more ambitious short-term goal on emissions.

Like we would trust China in the first place? Heck, most of the Paris signatories who have tough targets are nowhere close to sticking to them.

Anyhow, when all the Biden voters, including the #NeverTrumpers on the Right, start whining, remind them who they voted for. And, if these policies were so great, why are they not going through the Legislative branch, where they belong?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 25, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a dry seabed from the climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on leftist celebs trying to overturn the 2016 election.

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Bat Soup Virus Today: COVID Passes And Dems Not To Blame For Job Losses

By William Teach January 25, 2021 – 10:30 am

Have you noticed that most of the doom and gloom surrounding COVID deaths and positive tests has rather dried up since China Joe took office? Have you read any stories about there being 1,815 deaths across the US Sunday? Or, going back to inauguration day, 3322, 3734, 4142, 4370? For a total of 419k? Anyhow, an “analysis” by the Washington Post looks to take the blame off Democratic governors

Shutdowns by Democratic governors did not cause the pandemic jobs crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 416,000 Americans and recently pulled the U.S. economic recovery into reverse. Some states have shut down again to get a handle on surging caseloads. And critics have blamed those states’ governors, typically Democrats, for job losses.

But pandemic-related economic research shows the shutdowns aren’t killing jobs; the virus is.

In the first outbreaks last spring, people stayed home to avoid contracting the deadly novel coronavirus, regardless of what their governor said. (snip)

If stay-at-home orders poisoned an otherwise healthy economy, business should have crumpled the moment they kicked in. But cellphone activity data analyzed by Gupta, Simon and Wing show a different trend: People started to stay home well before states imposed shutdowns.

I’ll give Andrew Van Damm the benefit on that part: people were staying home. They were seeing what was going on in China, then the cruise ships, then the devastation in Italy, and were very concerned. Traffic was way, way down at stores, was it not?

The Washington Post often hears from readers who blame job losses on Democratic governors who have often imposed shutdowns when coronavirus cases surge. If Democrats are really responsible for job losses, we would expect to see employment fall off the cliff in blue states while employment in red states sail on untouched. But even the simplest analysis shows job losses don’t depend solely on the governor’s party. Some red states struggled; some blue states thrived.

But, see, the WP and these economists are attempting to really just look at the beginning, rather than what happened when Government starting locking everything down, and so many have kept them locked down. Certainly, I do not want to place all the blame on Democrat governors (and some GOP govs, like Maryland’s Larry Hogan), as they are not all to blame. But, certainly, they played a big part in closing businesses, telling people when businesses could be open, how to operate, and keeping many closed and/or limited. At the end of the day, we should be blaming China, but, the Dem govs sure helped increase the pain, which was meant to let them play their power game, because Dems love government power, along with hurting President Trump, because, let’s face it, a lot of this was political. Notice all the complaints about re-open protests while virtually none about the BLM riots.

This isn’t about science or economics, it’s about setting a Narrative to protect Democrat governors when they come up for election in the next two years, because they sure were blaming Trump for everything, right?

Wilmington firm rolls out its own COVID-19 vaccine ‘passport’

North Carolina-based CastleBranch, a consumer reporting agency, has rolled out its own version of a “digital vaccine passport.”

The Wilmington-based firm, supported by anti-counterfeit technology, is now issuing Real Vaccination ID cards as proof for the COVID-19 vaccination.

“Tracking, storing and reviewing complex medical documents – including vaccine records – is what we do,” its CEO Brett Martin, who founded the the agency more than 20 years ago, told WRAL TechWire.

“If we can help people prove their COVID-19 vaccination status and help them return to everyday life — then that’s a summit worth climbing.”

How soon till Government recommends that companies require this for employment, with companies implementing this “recommendation”?

You’re good with this, right?

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We Should Totally Listen To Children On Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach January 25, 2021 – 8:12 am

Think back to when you were in grade school and high school: how smart were you really, in terms of what was actually going on in the world and how to solve things. Are you thinking “yeah, I mostly didn’t know what the hell I was talking about, because I was a child”? As a parent, do you really listen to your kids about Important Things now? Considering this article is from Fortune, would you listen to your kids on economic matters?

Adults should listen to children to understand the severity of the climate crisis

After a depressing and dreary 2020, the new year has not come a moment too soon. The coronavirus pandemic has not yet ended its whirlwind of destruction, and it promises to loom large over the first half of 2021. But one day soon, we can reasonably hope it will be over.

In an effort to look forward to that day and beyond, I have been asking my grandchildren what they want to see happen in the world not just this year, but by 2030. By then, my grandson Ryan will be nearly 20, and his sister Madeleine will be a teenager.

They both call me Captain Planet, a kind label first applied to me by the Harvard Business Review. But superheroes have a habit of being human under the cape. My generation started out as big polluters, becoming climate change converts late in life. Even at Unilever—a company with a history of social responsibility dating back to the 1880s—placing sustainability at the heart of the firm’s strategy was controversial with some of its stakeholders.

By contrast, the adults of 2030 will have understood the fierce urgency of environmental protection all through their childhood. Invited to prescribe what adults should do in the coming nine years, Ryan, who is 10, has a clear five-point plan. Ban gas- and diesel-powered cars; expand the use of solar power; use less electricity; don’t use so much plastic; and fly less. It’s a shopping list to address the energy challenges of this century, and to mitigate the catastrophes humans have wrought on our natural and marine life. To do his bit individually, Ryan also decided recently to become vegetarian and stick to it.

It’s exactly the plan that the kids have been indoctrinated with, particularly in their leftist schools. Hey, let’s give them what they want, at least in their own lives. No more fossil fueled trips in cars or buses to school or anywhere else. Schools will replicate how much energy they could actually get from solar, so, the heat will be turned down to 60 and the AC up to 80. There wouldn’t be enough for charging their phones, having schoolwide WiFi, or laptops/tablets for everyone, so, they’ll just have to share the school resources.

Oh, and give up their plastic smartphones. And plastic gaming systems. And a goodly chunk of their clothes and shoes. And limit their computer time and TV watching time to save electricity.

Talking to Ryan and Madeleine about the planet they will inhabit long after me, reminded me of a Psalm. It is often shortened to “Out of the mouths of babes,” but a fuller rendering is “With praises from children and from tiny infants, you have built a fortress. It makes your enemies silent, and all who turn against you are left speechless.”

Only through concrete action now to build a greener 2030 can we earn the praise of our children and of theirs, building a fortress against the devastation of climate change and quieting those who say we aren’t serious. Ryan, Madeleine, and their whole generation will be watching.

Interesting that the vast majority of these climate cultist parents and grandparents  aren’t practicing what they preach, nor restricting the lives of their kids and grandkids to accord the climate kids’ beliefs.

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Biden Set To Sign Raaacist “Made In America” Plan

By William Teach January 25, 2021 – 7:51 am

Remember when Donald Trump’s Buy American plan was deemed racist?

Our history shows there’s a dark side to ‘Buy American’

“We will follow two simple rules,” President Trump promised in his inaugural address. “Buy American and hire American.”

Trump’s program might sound appealing. But the Buy American exhortation follows a long history of similar campaigns steeped in racism, especially against Asians and Asian Americans, that have had real, destructive consequences. It’s not that the Buy American call is racist in itself — there’s nothing wrong with seeking to reinvest our dollars back in good local jobs. The problem lies in the way in which it frames the issues.

That’s the Washington Post, just one of many news outlets calling the plan raaaaacist, mean, isolationist, and many more mean words. Now, though?

Biden set to sign ‘Made in America’ executive order

double standardsPresident Joe Biden is set to sign a “Made in America” executive order Monday, fulfilling a long-time campaign promise to increase the amount of federal spending that goes to American companies.

The announcement comes at a time when the government is set to spend expansively on efforts to defeat COVID-19, and after a period during which vulnerabilities in the U.S. supply chain were exposed as state and local governments resorted to foreign manufacturers to obtain desperately-needed personal protective equipment.

The federal government spends about $600 billion on contracting per year, and there are already rules in place governing how taxpayer dollars can be spent, how much foreign products can be purchased, and how many foreign components can be brought to the U.S. and assembled here. However, waivers and loopholes allow even more foreign product to be purchased than the rules state.

Biden’s executive order will aim to close those loopholes and cut down on the waivers, as well as order an increase in domestic content. It will also redefine what can count as domestic content, create a public website so U.S. companies can more easily see government contract business and determine whether they could make a more competitive bid for it.

I have nothing against a buy American plan, even from Joe (though, the devil is always in the details, right? You never know with a nutty leftist), but, the difference between the reception for Joe’s plan and Trump’s is astounding. The Washington Post isn’t complaining now. Nor are any of the usual suspects. Even the Auto Workers Union was called racist when they called for buying American.

I’m looking forward to all the double standards over the next four years.

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China Joe Voting New Mexico Now Super Concerned Over Drilling Moratorium

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 3:00 pm

New Mexico voted 54-43 for China Joe. But, hey, mean Tweets, right?

We all know that the 60 day moratorium will be more like four years, right? You can bet the leaders in New Mexico know it won’t end as long as Joe (or Kamala) is in office. From the link

President Joe Biden’s 60-day moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits is prompting widespread concerns in New Mexico, where spending on education and other public programs hinges on the industry’s success.

Top Republicans in the state as well as local leaders in communities that border the Permian Basin — one of the most productive regions in the U.S. — say any moves to make permanent the suspension would be economically devastating for the state. Half of New Mexico’s production happens on federal land and amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties each year.

Congressional members from other western states also are raising concerns, saying the ripple effects of the moratorium will hurt small businesses already struggling because of the pandemic.

“During his inauguration, President Biden spoke about bringing our nation together. Eliminating drilling on public lands will cost thousands of New Mexicans their jobs and destroy what’s left of our state’s economy,” Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway told The Associated Press on Friday. “How does that bring us together? Environmental efforts should be fair and well-researched, not knee-jerk mandates that just hurt an already impoverished state.” (snip)

Industry groups said the order effectively brings all regulatory activity to a halt, from routine requests that arise during the normal course of business to requests for rights of way for new pipelines designed to gather more natural gas as part of efforts to reduce venting and flaring — practices that Democrats have targeted in their fight against climate change.

Yet, Joe is still using fossil fuels to travel around, as are all his appointees. As Jason Chaffetz notes

Hey, New Mexico, you voted for this. You get what you vote for. In this case, thousands and thousands of people will be out of a job. Biden’s pause on oil cause for big concern in New Mexico #BetYouMissTrumpNow

You get what you vote for. Mean tweets from Trump vs really bad policies for America and Americans from Biden.

As a side issue, it also makes you consider “why in the hell does the U.S. government own so much state land?” 34% of New Mexico is owned by the federal government. Over one third. There are certainly states much worse (Ca, Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Idaho (yup, 61.6%)), but, Los Federales should not have that much power in a state in a Federal Republic.

Anyhow, when gas prices and energy prices (natural gas) start spiking, don’t blame Trump.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area dried out from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on China Joe being caught not wearing a mask, along with coughing.

It’s desert week on IAYS.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 9:34 am

Olivia De Berardinis Pimup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the once and future nation of America. The birds are signing, the sun is shining, and the Devils are above 500 to start the season. This pinup is by Olivia De Berardinis, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad notes that none of Biden’s actions are about healing or unity
  2. JoNova discusses Biden cancelling Keystone XL being a gift to China and Russia
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That highlights the Met Office blaming ‘climate change’ for winter storm Christoph
  4. American Greatness features Biden’s Fascist unity
  5. American Power discusses having to set his Twitter to private
  6. Blazing Cat Fur notes a California congresscritter calling for a $23 minimum wage
  7. Cold Fury discusses fake Conservatives still working the Reagan grift
  8. Diogenes’ Middle Finger notes an obese man with mental health issues as Assistant Secretary of Health
  9. Geller Report News highlights China Joe’s earpiece coach
  10. IOTW Report covers Joe not being sure what he’s signing
  11. Jihad Watch notes the NY Times loves Iran, and wants you to love it too
  12. Legal Insurrection covers Biden’s gender confused order destroying women’s sports
  13. Liberty’s Torch discusses a really dangerous, free speech killing Democratic bill
  14. Moonbattery covers CNN’s lie about no vaccine plan being debunked
  15. And last, but not least, neo-neocon wonders why D.C. is still an armed camp

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Texas Sues Biden Over Deportations Halt

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 8:13 am

Day 4 of the China Joe administration, and he’s earned himself his first lawsuit for violations of the law and the Constitution

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden for ‘Unlawful’ Halt to Deportations

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration for what he says is an “unlawful” executive order that halts deportations of illegal aliens.

Hours after taking office on January 20, Biden signed an executive order that halts deportations of most illegal aliens for at least 100 days. The order comes as illegal immigration has spiked in recent months and a migrant caravan heads to the United States-Mexico border in the hopes of taking advantage of the Biden administration’s lax enforcement policies.

On Friday, Paxton filed a complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in a request that immediately ends Biden’s halt on deportations.

Paxton, in a statement, said Biden’s order “violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law, and a contractual agreement” between Texas and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

“In one of its first of dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law,” Paxton wrote.

Many of those who ICE deports are murderers, arsonists, rapists, sexual assaulters of children. The Constitution and the law state that people unlawfully present in the United States shall be deported. If China Joe doesn’t like that, then he should ask the duly elected Legislative branch to change the law.

Joe wants them sticking around if caught

This guy would have been kept in the United States under Biden’s order.

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