B-Man

Trump knows personnel is policy. Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes. “Personnel is policy.” As far as I have been able to discover, that slogan gained currency in the Reagan administration. But it articulates a truth that political thinkers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to James Madison appreciated. The first line of Article II of the Constitution reads: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That’s “a President.” Only one. Not “a President and a bunch of district court judges.” Not “a President and sundry federal agencies staffed by unaccountable bureaucrats.” Over the course of many decades, the sublimely uncluttered principle articulated at the beginning of Article II has been undermined and stymied, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, by what we have come to call the administrative state. What is the administrative state? It is difficult to take precise measure of this amorphous, protean, self-engorging organism. But one salient characteristic is its habit of substituting judicial intervention for constitutional principle. “Personnel is policy.” Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes. The administrative state, supported by a battalion of liberal judges and scrambling litigants, says “not so fast.” As I write, the Trump administration is contending with some 300 lawsuits. Many have to do with agencies he wishes to trim or abolish, previously appropriated funds he wishes to divert or sequester, employees he wishes to fire. So far, the Supreme Court has, if in somewhat piecemeal fashion, mostly sided with Trump. The executive, the Court has recognized, ought to be allowed to execute, viz “to carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.” Inherent in that power is the President’s prerogative of “making the best possible appointments.” Why? because personnel is policy. Agents of the administrative state also understand this principle. It’s just that they believe that power, or at least large swaths of it, should rest with them, not the President. They do not have the Constitution on their side. But they do have a litany of legal decisions which have accumulated like barnacles on the hull of the ship of state, rotting its timbers, impeding its progress. https://thespectator.com/topic/trump-knows-personnel-is-policy/

THEY’RE NOT AGAINST PEOPLE BEING SHOT, IF IT’S THE RIGHT PEOPLE GETTING SHOT:

Dems Behaving Badly — Not Enough Xanax in the World for These Loons. “Kamala Harris once again made the unfortunate choice to go out in public after her second box of breakfast Franzia and remind everyone just how lucky this nation is that she no longer has a job. I know that I often write about Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Kamala Harris being drunk. I don’t do that because I’m a misogynist, I do it because I’m a professional entertainer who’s spent most of my adult life doing shows in nightclubs and I know what drunk people look like.” https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/10/09/the-morning-briefing-dems-behaving-badly-not-enough-xanax-in-the-world-for-these-loons-n4944643

Not in the media yet but Trump was just holding a round table to discuss Antifa when Mark Rubio walked in and handed him a note. Trump said it was to inform him he was needed shortly as they were near an agreement on Mideast peace. He didn't say Gaza but that must be what it's about I would think. Anyway, he took a couple more questions from the media then left with Rubio .

Hopefully those will be thrown in 'jail' also.

You know I am not questioning whether this is true or not, but A good poster would have provided a link. .

or. . . . . . NO longer 'reliable'

Of course they did.

Least surprising story of the day. NYPD Cops Plan to Vote With Their Feet If Mamdani Wins Ed Morrissey https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/10/08/nypd-cops-plan-to-vote-with-their-feet-if-mamdani-wins-n3807617

“Being an accused murderer with multiple witnesses ain’t what it used to be.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: 13 arrested, four police officers injured in violent Boston Common protest: ‘Completely despicable.’ Thirteen people were arrested Tuesday night in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest that turned violent on the Boston Common and left four police officers injured, including some with broken bones, according to officials. Protesters “turned on police” at approximately 6:50 p.m. when they began to move from the Common to the area of Tremont and Winter streets, Boston Police said. “At that time, protesters turned on police, kicking a marked cruiser, assaulting officers, blocking traffic, and setting off devices causing red smoke in the air,” Boston Police spokesman Sgt. Det. John Boyle said in a Tuesday night statement. Eight men and five women were placed under arrest. No one had been booked as of shortly before 9 p.m. Four police officers were injured in connection with the incident. Two officers were taken to local hospitals for treatment. Police have preliminary reports of officers with broken bones, but all injuries are considered non-life-threatening, Boyle said. “Another night of violence against police officers in Boston tonight,” said Larry Calderone, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association. “Our officers were attacked, assaulted and sent to the hospital with injuries. Completely despicable and totally unacceptable. We were outnumbered and understaffed for the event,” he continued. “We need to put more officers out on the street at these events and help protect ourselves from these ruthless attacks. It’s happening far too often lately with no repercussions,” Calderone told the Herald. The protesters appeared to be tied to the pro-Palestinian movement. A flyer distributed ahead of the event urged protesters to “Flood Downtown for Palestine.” The demonstration occurred on the two-year anniversary of the Hamas terror attack on Israel that sparked war in the region. https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/10/07/13-arrested-four-police-officers-injured-in-violent-boston-common-protest-completely-despicable/ Appeared? When people tell you who they are — violently — believe them.