On November 8, 2016, the nation was gripped by the suspense
of whether the outsider Donald J. Trump or the favorite Hillary Clinton would
win the White House. At the same time, voters chose their states'
congressional representatives, while one third of the states also chose their
two senators.
While
the major television networks held Super Bowl-size coverage, showing maps of
all the states, disputed congressional districts, and exit polls trying to
narrow down who may win the White House, what the nation did not know, and
still does not know, is that Mitch McConnell had his own scheme for running
Congress.
While
everyone in Washington knew the plan McConnell had, and knew that it was
standard procedure in Washington, few voters suspected that when they voted for
their member of Congress and the Senate, their vote had no influence on the
final result. They did not know and did not suspect that Senator
Mitch McConnell was soon to nullify the results of the 2016 national
election. He did not plan to influence vote-counting at the precinct
level or use his influence to choose the Senate committee
chairs. His plan was far more comprehensive.
He
did not plan to use the Russians to hack into election results computers in
every state, or delay election results through lawsuits. His plan
was far more insidious: he would simply allow the election to take place, to
have all the votes counted and counted equally, and if the Republicans kept the
majority in the Senate, that was all he needed to put his plan to nullify the
2016 election into action and negate the results of every House and Senate
election in America.
How
he did this is simple. In 2017, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell simply
refused to have the Senate vote on 569 bills passed
by Congress. Since the Senate did not vote on a bill, those bills
had no influence on congressional policy. All the hopes and dreams
American voters had to see programs of their choice realized through the House
and Senate were quashed by one person.
The
reason McConnell's scheme worked is simple and is found in the very heart of
the American representative form of government. In the Declaration
of Independence, the Founders of the U.S. stated that they would no longer
allow one person, the king of Great Britain, to decide by himself what laws
took effect in the colonies. They declared on July 4, 1776 that
government obtains its authority to govern only through the consent of the
people.
What
followed was the U.S. Constitution, written by representatives in 1787 and
ratified by a majority of the 13 states in 1791. The Constitution
carefully describes how the consent of the people will flow through the members
of Congress, both the House and Senate, to the desk of the president, and then
be signed into law. This is how the U.S. government is supposed to
work.
But
McConnell and those before him found a way to work around this: to allow
everyone to vote on election day; pretend the votes are counted; allow the drama
and excitement of the national election to play out on national TV; and then,
by not allowing the Senate to vote on the complete spending bill passed by the
House, to shut down the will of the people completely. In this way,
most of the House votes taken on November 8, 2016 were
nullified. The result is the same as if McConnell had his cronies
visit every precinct in the U.S. and burned the ballots.
McConnell's
scheme is clandestine, far more shrewd and effective. His method was
to allow everyone to vote, then cut off the input voters have on congressional
bills at the Senate level. If the House passes 768 bills and Senate
Leader McConnell ties up 569 in the Senate, then 74% of those House bills may
as well not exist. And 74% of those who voted on election day may as
well have stayed home.
Now
came step two. Senate leader McConnell, needing to pass a federal
budget, met with the other members of Congress – House speaker Paul Ryan,
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer – and
wrote their own bill of appropriations, an "omnibus"
bill. Since the 569
bills passed by the House were never voted on by the Senate, they were
not part of the omnibus bill. The omnibus bill was written by the
Washington oligarchy: the four leaders who practiced their two-step process of
nullifying the House and Senate and writing their own bill. Only
when the four oligarchs had written the omnibus bill were the House and Senate
allowed to have a vote. Then, threatened with a government shutdown,
the president gave in and signed it.
When
President Obama was in office, he had a more crude, direct way of ruling by
oligarchy. He blocked
the Republicans from having any input on the budget process and installed
62 czars, bureaucrats, who decided how to appropriate federal budget
funds. President Obama's method, since it included historically high
national deficits, was actually more unconstitutional. This is
because deficit spending not only deprives current voters of their opportunity
to decide how their taxes are appropriated through congressional action, but
forces future voters, by having to pay interest on the debt and pay down the
debt, to have less influence on the national budget, since money that could go
to policies of their choice is already spent on Obama's deficits.
What
McConnell did violates the constitution in the most direct way
possible. Since all spending every two years must be decided by the
voters – this is why the entire House is elected every two years – for
McConnell to deprive the voters a Senate vote on the House bills is identical
to denying them their opportunity to express their will and consent.
So
while Alexander Tyler is reported to have studied democracies throughout
history and conclude that a democracy will last only 200 years – after that
amount of time, the electorate will vote themselves the treasury – he was
half-wrong. Today, it's the Congress, through the Senate actions of
McConnell, who has taken over the treasury. The voters under
McConnell no longer have any say. Their will and consent have been
nullified. The Democrat leaders, Pelosi and Schumer, are thrilled to
go along with this. Their main frustration is that they can't
create 49% deficits, as they did in 2010 with Obama, and put a
stranglehold on more future voters' will and consent.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/how_mitch_mcconnell_stole_the_2016_congressional_elections.html
