The Supreme Court has delivered a ruling on the Biden administration’s illegal eviction moratorium. Some weeks ago, the president via the CDC extended the moratorium, despite the Supreme Court’s warning that doing so would be illegal. Astonishingly, Biden admitting on camera that his goal was to abuse the system, figuring that it would take months for the courts to take action to reverse him.
In the end, it took less than 25 days. In a 6-3 ruling, the CDC’s order was blocked. Even Chief Justice John Roberts joined the majority this time, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh keeping his word that he could flip sides if this issue came up again.
This was not unexpected. The only question was how many Justices would rule against him. You cannot both tout a strong economic recovery (6% plus GDP growth) and still demand that there is an economic emergency so bad that it justifies people not paying rent indefinitely.
The fact is that when they first put the moratorium on evictions it was only delaying the inevitable. Eventually people had to pay their rent or face consequences. The longer you put it off, the harder it becomes for everyone. Renters to pay back and landlords to keep afloat.
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It was the correct decision. The CDC never had the authority to issue the moratorium. I am not sure Congress or the federal government has the authority to impose one. It would once again bring up the issue of federalism. Despite the tortured interpretation of the interstate commerce clause by the liberal Warren court.
Turning over federal housing policy to the CDC.
The mark of a true imbecile.
The bottom line is I agree with you Scott.
Renters to pay back and landlords to keep afloat.
Unless the President gets the infrastructure bill passed, it will continue.
A lot of people who own apartment buildings are not rich people. They are entitled to make a profit.
It was taking money from people who can't afford to pay for the maintenance expenses.
Remember that I am a regulated capitalist person.
The Congress probably has the authority. Even if the courts are very conservative.
Did you remove my comments?
Did you remove my comments?
Just post the link to your plagiarisms, alky. It will save time.
Scott, I agree with you and the Supreme Court decision.
The fact is that when they first put the moratorium on evictions it was only delaying the inevitable. Eventually people had to pay their rent or face consequences. The longer you put it off, the harder it becomes for everyone. Renters to pay back and landlords to keep afloat.
Most of them are not rich enough to conduct their businesses for nothing.
Remember that I am a regulated capitalist person!
My father Ivan built a four apartment building in Rapid City in 71. He couldn't have afforded this situation.
It was my first job as a carpenter.
He had a subcontractor build the foundations.
We built the rest of it except the electric power system and plumbers and heaters. No air conditioning!
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My father Ivan built a four apartment building in Rapid City in 71.
Suuuuure he did alky.
Was he a blackout drunk like you as well?
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THE ATLANTIC
Who Takes the Blame?
People are pointing fingers in all directions over President Biden’s unfolding foreign-policy crisis.
By Peter Nicholas
Who, exactly, is responsible for yesterday’s calamity in Afghanistan? ISIS appears to be the author of this tragedy, but are American officials at fault as well? 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghan civilians are dead after attacks by a pair of suicide bombers just outside the Kabul airport. The number of casualties is sure to rise.
For that matter, who will Americans blame when they think about the image of desperate Afghans clinging to a departing C-17? Even before the bombings in Kabul, the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan had been intermittently chaotic—some of those lucky enough to escape were transferred to rat- and feces-infested holding facilities in Qatar. A lost war is ending much as it began 20 years ago, with a gruesome terrorist attack targeting Americans.
Prior to today’s attacks, Congress had already opened hearings into the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan pullout, though Washington has its own ideas of who was culpable. A recent Politico story distilled the city’s insistence on finding and shaming a scapegoat in its headline “The Blob Turns on Jake”—a reference to the foreign-policy establishment’s current view of Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan. Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas, a Republican and ex–Navy SEAL who lost his right eye in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan, singled out Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this week. At a private briefing with lawmakers, Blinken said the U.S. expected to extract all Americans from Afghanistan by President Joe Biden’s August 31 deadline, Crenshaw told me. “I don’t like the way the secretary of state toed the line for Biden,” he said. “No sane person believes that.”
Others are looking outside the White House.
When I spoke with Representative Adam Schiff of California on Tuesday, he pointed to the Pentagon. “With all the contingency planning that the Pentagon does, it seems inexplicable that we didn’t have a better plan for how this ends,” Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told me.
Then there are those blaming the intelligence community, specifically whoever drew the erroneous conclusion that the Afghan military could keep the Taliban at bay for months. “If I were in his [Biden’s] shoes, I would examine all the folks dealing with this intelligence—I’d be pretty pissed off,” Representative Bill Pascrell of New Jersey told me.
Today’s casualties also cast doubt on a core claim that Biden has used to justify the troop pullout—that even without a military presence in Afghanistan, the U.S. can still stave off terrorist attacks. General Kenneth McKenzie of U.S. Central Command said in a briefing today that the airlift from Kabul would continue, despite the threat of terrorist attacks ahead of the August 31 withdrawal date. As of this writing, about 1,000 Americans are still in Afghanistan. Biden has pledged to leave none behind. If anyone remains stranded, Biden’s unfulfilled promise may haunt his presidency for the rest of the term, while providing propaganda fodder for terrorists.
No top-level administration firings appear imminent. A high-profile housecleaning ordered by Biden would amount to a profound admission of error that Republicans would eagerly exploit in next year’s midterms and in the 2024 presidential election. For now, the White House remains focused on evacuating Americans and the Afghan interpreters, aid workers, and soldiers who helped the U.S. in the war effort. Rather than firing people in the near term, the administration is preparing to bring in more staff to help resettle the Afghans who’ve fled the country, a person familiar with the planning told me.
Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is one that a large majority of Americans favor, and have for years. It’s something he’s long wanted to do. In 2009, he spoke privately to Barack Obama about the then-president’s plans to temporarily add 30,000 troops to the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. As he walked with Obama from the White House residence into the Oval Office, Biden tried to dissuade the president from a “surge” that proved to be a futile attempt to beat back the Taliban. Warning Obama about the advice coming from the military, Biden said: “If you let them roll you, you’ll be their puppy for the next four years,” according to a person familiar with the conversation. “Joe, I’d like to see you be president for five minutes to see how you’d do it,” this person said was Obama’s reply.
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“Biden is a stubborn guy,” one former Obama-administration foreign-policy official told me, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk more freely. “Sometimes he does not want to hear what he knows he doesn’t like … If the problem here was mostly not hearing what he didn’t want to hear and telling everyone to shut up and go away when they told him things he didn’t want to hear, that’s not the intelligence community’s fault.”
How Biden went about ending U.S. participation in the Afghanistan war has ignited the biggest foreign-policy scandal in the eight months of his presidency. Any evaluation of who should be held accountable for the humanitarian mess centers on two points, one technical, the other political. Biden has said that the “consensus” advice he received was that Afghanistan would not fall to the Taliban until later this year, meaning he thought the U.S. had time to conduct an orderly evacuation. That rosy projection would have come from America’s raft of intelligence agencies, along with military officials who trained the Afghan army and diplomats who supposedly understood the staying power of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
“Whoever was saying that was wrong, tragically wrong,” Dick Harpootlian, a longtime Biden political ally and a Democratic South Carolina state senator, told me. “If I know Joe Biden, I know he’s going to remember who told him that.”
Yet Biden also needed to weigh the risks against his long-held view that the U.S. must finally extricate itself from a pointless war. At bottom, that’s a political decision. And to make a smart choice, Biden needed unsparing candor from the senior national security advisers he’s assembled, among them Blinken and Sullivan. They share a certain biographical affinity: Both are in the most prominent jobs of their lives because of Biden (each served as his national security adviser while he was vice president). Neither has a power base or constituency independent of Biden. And that may make them more inclined to yield to his predilections. Any White House is prey to this sort of deference.
Brett Bruen, an official in Obama’s National Security Council, recalled a meeting in the Situation Room in 2014 involving Russia. Aides had come in prepared to make a recommendation, and “as soon as a number of people saw the president heading in another direction, no one was willing to tell him, ‘Sir, I think this is important enough for a closer examination,’” he told me. “The way you get ahead in this team is by validating and amplifying what your principal wants to hear.” Leon Panetta, a former White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton and the head of the Pentagon and CIA under Obama, told me: “It’s pretty clear that people around [Biden], even though they pointed out the problems, just knew that he was very intent on moving as quickly as we could. So, how do you deal with that? From my experience, it’s really important to have advisers who are willing to look the president in the eye and say, ‘You’re making a mistake. There’s a better way to do this.’”
A president can, of course, grow in the job by applying hard lessons from past failures. Following the botched attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion, John F. Kennedy ousted his CIA director, Allen Dulles. “Under a parliamentary system of government, it is I who would be leaving office,” Kennedy told him. “But under our system, it is you who must go.” During the Cuban missile crisis a year later, Kennedy relied on a more informal national-security advisory group, “ExComm,” that would on occasion meet without him so that he didn’t inhibit anyone from speaking their mind.
In time, Biden will doubtlessly find someone to punish. Too much has gone wrong to leave voters with the impression that there wasn’t any accountability. But demoting or disempowering or reassigning someone immediately only obscures the uncomfortable reality that mistakes in Afghanistan spanned four presidencies, resulting in lives needlessly lost and taxpayer money inexcusably wasted. During a speech earlier this month, Biden said, “The buck stops with me.” This was after he blamed a fractious Afghan government and the Afghan military for refusing to fight. (That last point sparked outrage among national-security experts who pointed to the high Afghan death toll. “He said they didn’t fight for their country. Yes, they did fight for their country! They lost 70,000 soldiers,” Lisa Curtis, a senior director for South and Central Asia in Donald Trump’s National Security Council, told me.)
“Could this have been handled better? For sure, and we should look at what went wrong and why it went wrong and who made what decisions,” Ivo Daalder, who was the U.S. ambassador to NATO during Obama’s first term, told me. That said, he added, “the reason the government collapsed is not because of Jake Sullivan or Lloyd Austin. The reason the government collapsed is because we have fooled ourselves into believing that our support for the Afghan government was sufficient and it would ultimately stand on its own feet. And it didn’t. There’s been 20 years of failed policy.”
Biden, speaking at the White House late this afternoon, vowed to find and punish the attackers. “To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget.”
“America will not be intimidated,” he added. What is notable about this statement is that Biden was essentially promising the American people that he would hunt down terrorists in Afghanistan, no matter what the price. This wouldn’t be the first time Americans have heard this promise from their president.
Peter Nicholas is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers the White House.
yeah... Sure Reverend!
the old "pass the buck" routine!
Because Biden is incapable of admitting he did anything wrong.
Nobody is buying this nonsense, nor will anyone anytime soon.
We have one President. His timeline was not even the same time line, much less the same "strategy" as to how to get out as our previous President. But they keep "trying" and keep "trying" and keep "trying" to blame someone else.
First it was the Afghans, now it is Trump, and they are even already blaming any Americans stranded on either not getting out on their own or "wanting" to remain behind.
Such tremendous leadership.
Why not just concentrate on getting this done without killing anyone else rather than spending your time figuring out where to point fingers.
Biden has destroyed his presidency and he has no one to blame but himself.
That distilling James's long long cut and paste into one sentence.v
BTW James there is such a thing as the fair use clause in copyright law. You have far exceeded the limit and should start paying royalties to the publishers.
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