Dereliction of Duty – USA Gov Policy

In the midst of one of the most severe challenges the United States has faced in decades, Congress has ceased functioning, and members, especially the leadership, have gone home, leaving vital legislative needs unresolved. It is a dereliction of duty to the most extraordinary degree. While American families and small businesses seek ways to survive economically daily, their elected representatives are on an extended vacation at least until May 4.

Nancy Pelosi and other legislative leaders have not even had the dignity to honestly admit that they have abandoned the citizenry in their time of need, maintaining a dishonest façade of being in session in only the most technical terms. This has prevented the Executive Branch from engaging in the appointment functions constitutionally provided to it to administer to immediate needs while the legislature is in recess. An angered President Trump stated that ““The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty the American people can’t afford during this crisis.”

The use of pro forma sessions effectively prevents the White House from even temporarily filling positions that require Congressional approval. A 2014 Supreme Court ruling addressed that issue, finding that as long as a pro forma session continues, a president cannot make a recess appointment.

President Trump has threatened to address that façade by exercising the powers granted go him by Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution:

“… he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.”

Despite the protestations by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and their sycophants in the media and academia, the wording of Article 2, Section 3 is absolutely clear and unambiguous. Can anyone seriously argue that the COVID-19 plague is not an “extraordinary occasion”?

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In addition to the current, stunning neglect of duty, the utter abandonment of the needs of the tens of millions of Americans and their enterprises who require Congress to do its legislative functions during this crisis period, the current leadership of the House of Representatives has long-sought to disrupt the functioning of the Executive Branch. The fraudulent charges against the Trump campaign and the President himself, all of which have been thoroughly disproven after a lengthy and aggressive investigation, has received exceptional news coverage. Less discussed has been the attempts to sabotage, and that word is used in its full legal and practical sense, the duly elected Administration in two ways using personnel policy.

The first is the most apparent, and is the immediate spark that resulted in Trump’s fury: the failure to confirm presidential appointments. Currently, about 85 appointments remain unaddressed. Much less discussed is the success that Obama had in insuring that left wing personnel survived into the Trump Administration.

Key positions within essential agencies, such as the State Department and the Department of Justice, have been held by individuals less loyal to either the Trump Administration or, more importantly, the Constitution, than to the Democratic Party and leftist ideals. They have sought to nullify the effects of the 2016 election by thwarting the policies voters supported when they voted for a change in Washington.

Much of this became public during the Russian Collusion hearings, when some of these individuals vented their frustration, testifying that Trump refused to take their advice. One assumes these bureaucrats forgot or didn’t care that it was their duty to obey the elected President, not the other way around.

Congress needs to either end these artificial “pro forma” sessions and let the White House do its job, or do what they were elected to do, come back to Washington, and get back to work. Unless they do, history will long note that in a time of unprecedented crisis, the American people were abandoned by their legislators.

Illustration: The painting depicts Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. (Architect of the Capitol)

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Putin’s Saber Rattling

Earlier this week, President Biden reversed his 2022 decision, authorizing the provision of antipersonnel land mines to the Ukrainian government. It follows an earlier Administration authorization to allow the use of an advanced American missile system capable of striking as deep as 100 miles inside Russian territory. The US election season may be ending, but both Russia and the West show no indication of stepping down the conflict. Russian propaganda continues to swell as the Kremlin increases its threats to use nuclear weapons against the West. Last week Andrey Sushentsov, program director of the pro-Kremlin think tank Valdai Discussion Club (VDC), published an article on growing nuclear tensions in the region. Official Russian language in the last few years has been threatening. Since the US election, rhetoric like that in the Sushentsov article, has approached the level of nuclear blackmail. The VDC article’s main theme centers on Russia’s intent to directly confront the West militarily if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) becomes involved in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. “On the one hand, these threats are intended to frighten the West, but on the other, Russian propagandists themselves are starting to believe in the inevitability of escalation,” according to Ksenia Kirillova of the Jamestown Foundation. On November 11, Sushentsov wrote that “The conflict will reach a completely new level, with unpredictable consequences for Europe and the entire world.” Kirillova points out that Putin’s distorted image of the world is divorced from reality and is causing the Kremlin to issue demands that are impossible to fulfill. Financial and other Russian resources needed to support Putin’s war are growing scarcer at the same time. This week the Kremlin announced a reduction of payments to its soldiers. Recently North Korea acknowledged it was sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine as Putin is running out of bodies to use as cannon fire. The war is not going well for Russia. One question floating around the Washington intelligence community is whether Putin will act out of desperation before President-elect Trump assumes office. In recent months the Russian propaganda machine is spewing out materials from fairly reputable analytical platforms inside the country. Kirillova says that “Kremlin ‘experts’ do not conceal that such threats are only intended to break the West psychologically, as they themselves are not prepared for full-scale nuclear war.” Despite Russia’s lack of preparation for an all-out war with the West, the expanding nuclear rhetoric carries with it an increase in the threat of a full-scale war in multiple theaters of operation. In June 2023 a founder of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Sergey Karaganov, called for “delivering a pre-emptive strike of retaliation” on Poland to force the West to surrender. In the previous month, Dmitry Suslov, a direct of research programs at the policy center proposed organizing “a demonstration nuclear explosion” aimed at intimidating the West. In September, President Putin announced a reappraisal of Russian nuclear doctrine after speaking earlier in the year at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and jokingly calling Suslov a “scary person.” Pavel Baev, writing in the European Daily Monitor, says “Putin intends his announcement to mark an escalation of nuclear brinkmanship and influence the proceedings of future Ukrainian peace efforts.” Putin is expanding the list of environmental conditions that are acceptable for using a nuclear weapon and incorporating it into Russian military doctrine. Baev adds that “The ups and downs of Russian brinkmanship are disconnected from the kinetic battles of the war, correlating instead with Ukrainian peace offensives, such as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first peace summit in Bürgenstock, Switzerland.” Despite the increase in vitriolic language, in a You Tube video published a week before the US presidential election, Karaganov openly assured the West the primary goal of the escalation is to break the American spirit and that of the West, not outright nuclear war. By Election Day in the US, with political prognosticators predicting a win for former president Trump, Karaganov changed his tune and called for an increased role in nuclear deterrence. Kirillova points out that Western concessions to Russia are unlikely to reduce the risk of nuclear escalation. The distorted reality inside the Kremlin continues to push that President-elect Trump is an adherent of “world government,” that Ukraine will create a nuclear weapon, and Russia must prepare for a nuclear conflagration to achieve its ambitions for a new world order. President-elect Trump has indicated he will not agree to concessions that destabilize Europe, the Middle East or other regions. Going forward a strong US foreign policy may be the most stabilizing course the West can count on to restrain Putin and his intent to rebuild the Russian empire. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept. Illustration: Pixabay

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