5/7/2023 0 Comments Heave ho thomas usThey ought to make that choice their own. I would advise people to get it, but I’m not going to have the government force people to do it. I happen to think vaccine is a good thing. ![]() “It gives Congress a chance to express our view that we disagree with the president, and it’s called the Congressional Review Act… Now it has to go to the House, they may not overturn it, but I welcome an opportunity to show the people of Iowa that I don’t think the federal government should be violating personal freedom and telling people what to do. The Congressional Review Act gave them the voice that the president didn’t. “That probably would be unconstitutional too,” Grassley said, but at least members could have voted on it. “I think it backs up what I said when the president… issued the mandate to private business… I thought it was unconstitutional at that time.” Grassley, like a lot of people, thinks Biden should have asked Congress to pass legislation instead of unilaterally ordering Americans to get the shots. Before the vote, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stopped by "Washington Watch” and predicted it would pass. The two Mississippi senators - Roger Wicker (R) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) - tag-teamed on the resolution, which passed 52-48, thanks to help from Democrats Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Jon Tester (Mont.). This is an opportunity to a) get both parties on the record about the president’s mandate b) show the country that this Republican Party is willing to stand up against the administration and its overreach. That might sound like a long shot (and it is), but this is more than political posturing. Through the Congressional Review Act, the two chambers can overturn a rule like this one with a simple majority and the president’s signature. Using one of the best weapons Congress has to rein in the executive branch, Republicans and two Democrats forced a vote on Biden’s vaccine mandate for private businesses. The president has been humiliated by the courts, spurned by voters, mocked by world leaders, and - on Wednesday - chastened by both parties of the U.S. But at some point, not even the press’s subterfuge can hide the truth about Afghanistan, the border, inflation, gas prices, crime, COVID overreach, and so much more. Even the corrupt media has done the best they could with the messes they’ve been asked to tidy up. To be fair, there’s no washing machine big enough to spin the kind of crises this president has created. And yet, Milbank whined that the “Left-wing media is tough on him… He has no real support as he tries to” - get this - "rebuild the organs of democracy.“ ![]() No reasonable human being could possibly believe that, NRO fired back. So his cheerleaders kicked it into even higher gear - complaining, as the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank did - that the media has been harder on Biden than Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() The press hasn’t been favorable enough, reporters were told at an off-the-record meeting with senior administration officials. And in the White House’s alternate universe, that’s exactly the problem. The Biden presidency has been such a disaster that not even the media’s absurdly flattering coverage can bail him out. For this president, there’s no fading into the snowy background when shoppers are paying twice as much for presents - if they can get them at all! Usually, the holidays are a great distraction from everything that’s happening in Washington - unless what’s happening in Washington is affecting everything Americans are doing for the holidays. In normal times, he might have gotten it. We know what Joe Biden wants for Christmas - a break from the hot seat.
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