Well......"NO POTUS" would include Trump! You are sadly mistaken if you think there have been NO checks on his power. You have not proven this and CANNOT prove this. Stop exaggerating.
I didn't say that Prayer Warrior. I said that Trump
didn't accept having checks placed upon his power. Trump is unique regarding subpoenas, in his blanket instruction to the Executive Branch not to comply with Congressional subpoenas, in effect, undermining the checks and balances in our form of government. This is inexcusable by the way.
Did you read the article I posted? Obama dealt with the subpoenas when it was too late for anything to be done!
I'm sure that this has happened in prior Administrations. Why is it so offensive to you because Obama did it?
You're blaming Gingrich? Really? I don't know about that.
I was a university student in the late 1970s and 1980s and so witnessed the change in governance. Back then people rightly worried about the future of representative government.
Just look at the history books and Congressional records before Gingrich. There was a lot more activity going on. Senators and Representatives back then worked for their pay doing legislative tasks, instead of today, which is simply doing little, passing only token or necessary bills and spending their other time calling lobbyists and financial donors.
Do you remember when Obama played partisan politics with federal parks and barred Americans from entering them? I remember that.
That was during the 16-day shutdown over the Affordable Care Act, I remember. I also remember that the Republicans had turned against the Act because Obama was supporting it, despite that it originated through the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation. Since the Republicans repudiated their own health care proposal, they've never been able to offer an alternative constructive proposal since then.
The divide between Democrat and Republican ideology has widened by leaps and bounds since Gingrich, but I don't blame him.
That's simply a matter of history.
When the Democrats recently kicked God out of their party altogether, I lost all respect for them.
That's incorrect. Perhaps you should read Thomas Jefferson's
An Act Establishing Religious Freedom for Virginia, 1786. It explains very well the Democratic Party's religious views. Democrats do not force the consciences of others in matters of religion. They also do not accept the denial of services, public and private, based on race, gender, religion, political views, so that people can live as neighbors to one another.
Republicans have yet to learn to live as neighbors with Samaritans, those they believe are religiously unclean. I remind you of Jesus' parable concerning it.
I shouldn't have had ANY respect for them considering their ongoing support as a party for killing unborn babies. See, I really do believe that black lives matter!
Democrats, I should say, accept, ultimately, the functional equivalent of a belief similar to the Jewish Halakhic law position to the unborn. That position states that until the child's head emerges from the birth canal, it is not under the protection of the law of homicide in Leviticus 24:17. Jewish law notes that in Exodus 21:22 if a pregnant woman is struck and suffers a miscarriage, it's not treated as a homicide but as civil damage in which monetary compensation must be paid. This Biblical text clearly defines the fetus as not being a person. Many Democrats do not see personhood in the fetus for part of its development in the womb. Democrats have always assert the Aristotelian, and Thomistic principle that actuality is prior to potentiality. This means, a mother is clearly and actually a person; a fetus is potentially a person. One cannot destroy the actual rights of one, the mother, on behalf of potential rights of another, the fetus. Imagine if the potential is favored over the actual in other legal disputes. It would lead to tyranny. Every Democrat, of course, wants abortions to be legal and rare. That is in keeping with the Halakhic law on this.
I'm happy that you see that black lives matter.
