Low Water In The Swamp

Can you hear that?  It sounds like gurgling water.  Could it be the water level in the DC swap is being lowered?  I think so, too.  Consider the impact in the last few days of a couple of serious blows against the Deep State establishment machine, and the Kenyan's cadre of appointed traitors.  And as the left becomes apoplectic and is sent screaming and thrashing wildly about, Mr. Trump, true to his word, is continuing to drain the DC morass of the unelected, tyrannical bureaucrats who have so effectively interfered with the proper governmental processes of a democratic republic.  How so, you may ask?  Simple.  In two cases these high ranking career politicians assumed powers and authority that constitutionally they did not have.  They were exposed as such, and were rightly fired.  

Sally Yates, former Attorney General (Acting)

Last week the pitifully partisan Sally Yates was exposed as being up to her lovely neck in judicial malfeasance.  You may recall that as acting Attorney General, taking over for the Kenyan appointee Eric Holder, Ms. Yates refused to implement President Trump's lawful Executive Order.  This was the so-called Travel Ban, one which would restrict Muslim terrorists from entering the country.  Most would think that's probably a good move.  But Sally didn't think so, apparently.  This law, codified under  8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), gives broad authority to the president in immigration matters.  Most presidents have issued restrictions on who can enter the country, and the law's constitutionality is unquestioned.  Yates' job was to enforce that EO.  She did not, instead she acted as a social justice warrior, claiming that the president's EO was neither "wise nor just," and not in keeping with her personal political ideology.  Whether it was wise or just in her eyes is immaterial, it's a lawful order that must be defended and executed.  She didn't and now she's out of a job.  

James B. Comey, former FBI Director

On Tuesday of this week, another surprising and delightful firing occurred.  James B. Comey, FBI Director, was also summarily terminated for many of the same reasons, that is, for assuming authority and power he does not have as FBI director.  Ironically, despite how the left screams about fascism taking over in the White House, most wanted Comey gone anyway.  They were livid that he reopened the investigations into Mz. Clinton's email scandal, just weeks before the election.  Some claim that's the reason she lost.  Most know she lost the election because she's a horrible, self serving career politician who can be bribed.  The right, on the other hand, was enraged that Comey did not bring charges against Mz. Clinton, despite the fact that she had committed serious crimes by mishandling sensitive classified information and had been exposed in email leaks.  But the proverbial straws happened when, first, Comey took upon himself authority he didn’t have, acting as a de facto prosecutor rather than as a mere investigator.  And secondly, he told the public that he undertook a thorough investigation, which he had not done, absent even empaneling a grand jury to hear charges against Mz. Clinton.  He essentially sullied the reputation of the FBI in doing so, and down the road he goes.

Federal courts hierarchy

Another gurgling sound was heard Monday as President Trump announced ten judicial nominees to the federal courts, who are not only conservatives, but strict constitutionalists as well.  This comes on the heels of his home run in appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.  Appointing constitutionalist judges to the federal bench is vitally important because in recent years the judiciary has been seeded with judges who rule on social justice, rather than on the law of the land.   That's how we get laws enacted that bypass congress.  At this moment, there are over one hundred judicial vacancies, and these ten nominees will fill some of those seats, five for the federal appeals courts, four for the federal district courts, and one for Court of Federal Claims.  These are lifetime appointments, and though approval by the Senate is required, all are expected to be properly appointed.  That will effectively return the judiciary into interpreting the law, rather than making law from the bench, as the constitution intended.  In the next four years, Trump can expect to appoint nearly 300 judges, just a few shy than the Kenyan appointed during his reign.

 

The whole point of this exercise is to de-weaponize the Justice Department and ultimately the judiciary, by removing the political hacks who, as Kenyan appointees, are in power at the FBI and the Attorney General's office, as well as federal judges elsewhere. Who will replace these disgraced players is yet to be seen, but the mood of the nation is that the electorate has had quite enough of unelected bureaucrats of all stripes and in all positions of authority.  

Trump:  Draining the swamp one day at a time.