The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, January 25, 2019

For the next two years, the most interesting and consequential political leader in DC will be Nancy Pelosi

The key feature of republican rule is not that the power of the government is limited vis-à-vis civil society, as libertarians and other partisans of bare-knuckle capitalism and the power of corporations, the rich, and the owners of the means of production would have it.

That is to say, limited vis-à-vis corporations, the rich, and the owners of the means of production.

It is that the power of individual officials of the government is limited.

No one is "the Decider", C student GW notwithstanding.

Dispersal of power among multitudes of officials is the key to preservation of republican liberties.

Tyranny is impossible so long as the republic is intact.

Totalitarianism is impossible so long as the republic is intact.

Monarchy in any form is impossible so long as the republic is intact.

The power to make laws in our republic is dispersed among 535 congresspeople in two separate houses.

The highest authority to interpret the laws and the constitution is dispersed among the several justices of the Supreme Court.

Only the powers to see that the laws are faithfully executed and of ultimate command of the armed forces are put into the hands of one person.

And yet Nancy Pelosi was able to teach Bozo, the president of the United States and so the most powerful individual official in the American republic, what dispersal of power, what checks and balances, means.

A lesson he managed somehow not to learn with the failure of repeal of Obamacare in the senate by one vote.

Asked after Trump's speech today whether now at last she and the Democrats would give the Duce some wall money, Nancy said no.

‘Have I not been clear about the wall?’ Pelosi signals Trump still won’t get what he wants

Democrats say they will not agree to provide funding for the wall, period. 

If they were willing to entertain that, they would’ve done so before the government shutdown in December or in the more than a month since as roughly 800,000 federal workers went without pay. 

“Have I not been clear on the wall?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Friday when one asked if Democrats would continue to object to wall funding in the upcoming negotiations. 

“I’ve been very clear.”

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer was more direct: “Democrats are against the wall.”

Trump agreed to reopen government “without preconditions,” the New York Democrat noted, as he proudly pointed out that the agreement endorses the position Democrats have held throughout the shutdown. 

“Our unity is our power,” Pelosi said. 

“And that is what maybe the president underestimated.”

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