Friends, RFK, Jr. has taken the helm at HHS, and he has this update on the status of his overlordship:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/opinion/rfk-jr-how-im-slashing-unhealthy-fat-at-hhs/
Streamlining the bureaucracy may be the easy part -- not that it's all that easy -- but changing the trajectory of America's deteriorating physical health will be darn challenging. And what of RFK's claim that "America has the highest rates of chronic disease in the world"? By what metric, exactly? It's hard to imagine that we're less healthy than, say, Afghan peasants, but I'll try to keep an open mind...
In other news, there's talk of prosecuting New Jersey's woke Governor for blocking state and local law enforcement from communicating with, or assisting, ICE. I say: it's about time! The only thing that would put the fear of God into these public officials undermining our nation's immigration laws would be legal consequences. Deport Phil Murphy!!! Okay, it might be a bit tricky to deport a citizen, but at the very least hold his feet to the fire.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I remember a documentary on the resistance to full civil rights for blacks mounted by some southern Governors in the late '50s and early '60s . A commentator opined "what were they thinking?! The President can send battleships up the MIssissippi if he chooses to!" Ok, we have no more active battleships but the principle still obtains. "It just takes a new President". And this new President will not hesitate, I think, to take action backed by all his power against those state officials who defy Federal Immigration Law and its related statutes enabling the swift excretionj of America hating aliens. Does this NJ Governor really want to see a Marine verticle envelopment of his capitol.?Do his "subjects" want this? Its just a matter of time, as it was for Faubus , Barnett and Wallace.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that some of these Luddites hope against hope that DJT will prove yet another apologetic RINO in office. The poor dears: I suppose they must find out for themselves or they think their far leftist faith in a perfect future will redeem them in this, "the winter of (their) discontent".
Let the New Jersey Governor improvidently provide our gutsy President an opportunity to prove he, the President, is not to be trifled with nor is the America he serves. Let that "Governor" experience a legal onslaught upon his very person, even unto close confinement, analogous to that with which DJT was challenged in his years in the far leftist dictated wilderness.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: No need , I would suggest, to be open minded about the absurd. Of course we are infinitely more healthy than Afghan highlanders or even climate and as always, regime oppressed Russians.
ReplyDeleteAmerican leaders of sincere good will face a situation maybe unprecedented in humanity's long and tortured tenure: how can you justify remedial action for ills generated by prosperity? You might thereby generate even more well being but is America willing to endure the cost? Maybe enough is enough. RFK has lived with plenty his whole life and may thereby be , without haughty rancor, reacting to faults most of us do not see(?) I grew up in the '50s and my teeth have lasted wonderfully. My father lost all of his in his 30s. We are often told that unhealthy teeth can cause much more extensive medical problems. Did all that fluoride in our childhood water sources not do us some good? Fluoridation was very understandably perceived by a then beleagured conservative America as a presumptuous far left imposition on America. And it might well have been so but perhaps it has yet had redeeming benefits (?). If so, perhaps its best to leave it be; there are more than enough other well proven malign radical attacks on our country to confront.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The "American" far left is reaping the bitter harvest of what it has so recklessly sown since the 60s. "It just took a new President" but for so long we were served by leaders who either wished them well or were afraid of their marxist seditionary power(excepting Pres. Reagan). Now we have a courageous and self confident President who has no use for them or their plainly totalitarian intentions.
ReplyDeleteThose who persist in aiding illegal aliens are often people of sincere compassion for the wretched of the earth. Perhaps Gov. Murphy is one of them. But: they do not credit the fact that our laws are established by a democratic process in which the concern all decent people feel for those of terrible misfortune anywhere are given full and eloquent voice. And the compromise with those who yet urge the consideration of common sense about how much we CAN do for them, produces our Immigration laws (which are always subject to democratic amendment).
Let those who would risk anarchy scorning our laws rather demonstrate personal willingness to endure the disorder generated by unfettered invasion of our country . Let them place themselves in direct proximity to the many among the illegals whose jaundiced view of the law, often derived from corrupt laws and enforcement in their lands of origin, generates very serious crime and dysfunction. Let them feel the sometimes mortal anxiety about increased violent crime endured by so many in border states and sanctuary localities. Let them devote their personal finances to the direct humanitarian aid of illegals. Let them travel at their own expense to countries of origin to help the needy there and to petition El Jefe to have a heart ,if our diplomatic laws sanction such effort.
The wisdom derived from such experience may inculcate in them an increased appreciation for our Immigration Laws.
Jack, I'm all for the use of federal law enforcement, or the U.S. military, against rogue Governors and other "insurrectionists", BUT, as for the use of federal muscle to enforce civil rights, that was mostly at the behest of the courts, not Eisenhower or Kennedy. Trump could send in the Marines, sure. So, theoretically, could some uppity district court judge.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I think the only coercive sanction available to any Federal Judge is criminal prosecutions or immediate incarceration for contempt(?) I believe the authority to order Federal troops rests solely with the Executive branch though Governors can command their state National guard until they are Federalized. I suppose Ike and Kennedy could have refrained from using the armed forces. I think it was to prevent any consideration of resistance by state armed or police forces to the Federal authority directed by the Judiciary at recalcitrant Arkansas that Ike sent the elite 82d Airborne to Little Rock.
ReplyDeleteIts plausible to wonder how far states like NY, NJ or Cal. might go in their impassioned "resistance" to our popular President's orders concerning illegal aliens. You are right, DJT has not yet enjoyed comprehensive Federal Judicial backing on illegal immigration. Is it possible that an "American" far left , far more powerful than it was in the late'50s and early '60s, might persuade a Governor to use armed force? Perhaps an example, a reminder, of what was done to some southern states would be beneficial. Our Marines can move with much faster expedition than they did in the early '60s. And in states suffering one party dictatorial rule the common sense minority might take heart over many of its consequent grievances if they see an exemplary confirmation of Federal Laws with which their imperious Governors take umbrage . Marines or the nearby 10th Mountain Division peacefully sojourning in Albany for a time might wonderfully concentrate our Governor's mind or that of that so idealistic NJ Goverrnor.
The far left is doing what criminals often do: they are probing for weak spots, seeing what they can get away with. But like cowardly thugs they back off when confronted with irresistible "persuasion"
You make (as always) a good point, Jack. The courts appear never to have ordered federal law enforcement or the military to act, by themselves. They rely on the executive branch to do so. I wonder if blue state police or troops might act in conformity with an order from a leftist judge, though?
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