In other words, there is absolute anarchy on the ground in Portland — and the Governor of Oregon and the Mayor of Portland have refused to do anything about it.
Over there at Fox, Andrew McCarthy, now a senior fellow and contributing editor at National Review but himself a former federal prosecutor has nailed it exactly. Says Andy:
“[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The Constitution says that’s the president’s job, but we’re not hearing much about that from the chattering classes.
This is the plain text of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. And Andy is right — the “chattering classes” are ignoring it outright. But even more disturbing is the silence or outright ignorance of America’s political class.
Democrats around the country have, effectively, stood up for anarchy.
Astonishingly, Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul, normally a staunch defender of the Constitution, suddenly sees the idea of the President executing exactly the responsibility assigned him by the Constitution as now “rounding up people at will” in Portland.
Then there’s my former Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge. The Governor was chosen as the first head of the brand new conglomeration of federal agencies that would eventually become the Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. Ridge took to an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish to say, astonishingly, that DHS “was not established to be the president’s personal militia.” The former governor added:
“It would be a cold day in hell before I would consent to a unilateral, uninvited intervention into one of my cities, and I wish the president would take a more collaborative approach toward fighting this lawlessness than the unilateral approach he’s taken.”
Source: Jeffrey Lord | The Jeffrey Lord
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