Admission Against Interest: White House Chief of Staff Admits Vaccine Mandate is a “Work Around” the Constitutional Objections

“…In the law, it is called an admission against interest or an out-of-court statement by a party that, when uttered, is against the party’s pecuniary, proprietary, or penal interests. In politics, it is called just dumb. White House chief of staff Ronald Klain offered a doozy this week when he admitted that the announced use of the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for a vaccine mandate was a mere “work around” of the constitutional limit imposed on the federal government. The problem is that the thing being “worked around” is the Constitution. Courts will now be asked to ignore the admission and uphold a self-admitted evasion of constitutional protections.

Klain retweeted MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, who posted, “OSHA doing this vaxx mandate as an emergency workplace safety rule is the ultimate work-around for the Federal govt to require vaccinations.”

The “work around” was needed because, as some of us have previously during both the Trump and Biden Administration, the federal government does not have clear authority to impose public health mandates. Authority for such mandates has traditionally been recognized within state authority…

…The move is unnecessary and therefore reckless. There are already challenges to the law which the Justice Department could join as amicus.  It would then not have to risk the creation of additional losses in court after the impressive litany of losses of the Biden Administration. This was another filing that followed a public call from the President. It is again politics driving litigation by the Justice Department. The media covered such pressure extensively during the Trump Administration and legal experts objected that the Trump White House was attacking the independence of the Justice Department and other agencies. There is little attention to his pattern that extends from immigration to debt relief to the eviction moratorium…”

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Important.

Foolish RT from WH chief of staff. He said the quiet part out loud.

Biden admin knows it’s likely illegal (like the eviction moratorium) but they don’t care. https://t.co/AlfmYtuvhp

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 10, 2021

The White House staff are experiencing classic emotional transference

By equating the unvaccinated to the Taliban they are able to take out their frustrations on the group they have power over, after being humiliated by the other

Psych 101 stuff

And they're not going to stop

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 10, 2021

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The period after the Afghanistan debacle subsides will be very dangerous. The humiliated regime will be looking to reassert itself, and since it lacks the credibility to act abroad, they’ll look closer to home – like the guy who gets punked at work going home to beat his wife.

— Martyr Made (@martyrmade) August 26, 2021

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds

Yang to launch third party, following failed White House, NYC mayoral bid as Democrat, report

“…Former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and failed New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang will reportedly launch a third party next month.

The plan is being reported by Politico, based on information from two people familiar with the matter.

Yang and his team remain cagey about planning details at the moment, but the launch will likely coincide with the release of his new book “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy.”

The former businessman provided captivating B-and-C-plot political story lines during his last two races with creative ideas about economics and governance, though he failed to captivate a significant or mainstream audience. Famously, his presidential campaign was centrally predicated on the idea of giving citizens $1,000 checks on a monthly basis — a proposal more closely aligned with big thinkers in Silicon Valley than with lawmakers in either major U.S. political party.

Though the basis of his new party has not yet been revealed, a blurb for the new book by New York Times writer Kara Swisher reads: “Can there be another political party in the U.S.? … In Forward, Yang does not just give us a laundry list of intractable problems, but shows how we can find solutions if we think in new ways and summon the courage to do so.”

Crown, the book’s publisher, writes that Yang’s book is a harsh look at America’s “era of institutional failure,” through which he plans to introduce the people to “various ‘priests of decline'” in America, including “politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.”…”

https://twitter.com/KyleMartinsen_/status/1416094954603044864

VP Kamala Harris Holds Open House For Abortionists, Patients

I find it utterly abhorrent.

I believe it should be legal, rare, and limited to the first trimester or shorter.

It should be decided on a state by state basis by the voters through the normal process. There is no constitutional right to an abortion.

National Archives and Records Association puts “harmful content” label on Constitution, founding documents.

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You already know in what direction the politicization trends.

Producer inflation accelerated in August, as wholesale prices rose record 8.3% from a year ago

• • The producer price index increased 0.7% in August from a month ago, above the 0.6% Dow Jones estimate.
  • Final demand prices rose 8.3% from a year ago, the biggest increase on record going back to 2010.
  • The move showed that inflationary pressures are likely to persist.

The Covid crap is a desperate attempt to change the subject from his other disastrous policies.

It also shows the ugliness inherent in so called “liberalism.” Have you ever heard a president speak like that to the American people? He holds us in contempt and I can assure Mr. Biden that the feeling is mutual, at least from our household.

Fauci Was ‘Untruthful’ to Congress About Wuhan Lab Research, New Documents Appear To Show

“…Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, told Newsweek these documents show “unequivocally” that NIH grants were used to fund controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Insitute of Virology in China—something U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied.

Ebright said: “The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement in Wuhan are untruthful.”

“Multiple sections of the grant proposals and grant progress reports make it clear that the grants funded gain-of-function research of concern in Wuhan,” he said.

“Two especially noteworthy sections are page 28 and Figure 35 of the year four progress report on the grant term (1R01-AI110964) and page 3, Figure 6, of the proposal for a second five-year grant term (2R01-AI110964).”

Ebright said these sections of the documents show that NIH grants supported the construction of mutant SARS-related coronaviruses that involved blending different types together. The result was a lab-generated virus that could infect human cells, he said, adding that at least three of the lab-generated viruses “exhibited >10x to >100x higher viral loads in humanized mice.”…”

Pelosi orders U.S. Capitol Police to reinstall fence around Congress

More Americans ‘than ever’ turn against Biden, Democrats sour

“…More people “than ever before” disapprove of Joe Biden’s job as president, according to the latest edition of a survey that had been favorable to the White House up to now.

The latest Economist /YouGov survey said that since the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan orchestrated by the White House, Biden’s approval rating has tanked to just 39% while his disapproval has spiked to 49%…”

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‘I Will Not Comply’: Social Media Erupts Over Biden Vaccine Mandate Speech

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"Many small businesses and workers do not have the money or legal resources to fight Biden’s unconstitutional actions and authoritarian decrees, but when his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties.”—@GOPChairwoman pic.twitter.com/34HA65LL23

— GOP (@GOP) September 10, 2021

Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian.

— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) September 9, 2021

Florida MUST call a special session to nullify Biden‘s vaccine mandates

Any federal official attempting to impose them should be arrested on the spot and prosecuted under Florida law #NoMandates #nullification

— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) September 9, 2021

Pennsylvania Republicans start election review, Democrats call it a ‘sham’

Biden’s vaccine mandate is an assault on private businesses.

I issued an Executive Order protecting Texans’ right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine & added it to the special session agenda.

Texas is already working to halt this power grab.https://t.co/TwoQMhDxoM

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 9, 2021