Never-Enough Dope Dance

Entrenched Panderer proposes MORE Gasoline on Flames

U.S. public officials can’t enact, pass and make permanent policy ensuring quality education for all Americans.

They cannot design and conduct an efficient, incorruptible, broadly participatory electoral process.

 

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hey can’t end poverty and homelessness by ensuring quality (adequate and updated) education, pre and in-service training, apprenticeship; living-wage earnings for workers sufficient for them to afford decent nutrition and basic shelter — permanent housing; not homeless shelters, camps, or makeshift hovels on streets, in alleyways, or under bridges.

U.S. public officials cannot ensure easy access to basic, quality medical and well-being care, health and fitness care — not merely fiddling with palliatives, drugs and drug costs, pandering to drug makers, marketers and traffickers.

They cannot lead by example, encourage, and help enable a population of socially and civically engaged citizens.

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owever, they can propose peddling dope to the masses.

 Nadler notes 

Jerrold Lewis Nadler is a 73-year-old entrenched lifer rising from the New York State Assembly, sitting in the U.S. Congress, and powering the House Judiciary Committee (1977 – present).

On Capitol Hill, Nadler serves Manhattan’s west side (Upper West to Battery Park, World Trade Center; Manhattan’s Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen and Greenwich Village neighborhoods; Brooklyn’s Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Bay Ridge; tourist destinations as the Statue of Liberty, New York Stock Exchange, Brooklyn Bridge, and Central Park).

Nadler and impeachment

The Congressman was quoted describing the William Jefferson Blythe II (Clinton) impeachment as a “partisan railroad job.” While sitting on the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Nadler barred efforts to bring impeachment hearings for former president George W. Bush and vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney reportedly in 2007 calling the proceedings “pointless and … distract(ing) from the presidential election.”

U.S. Representative Lance Carter Gooden in 2019 accused Congressman Nadler of “unlawfully beginning impeachment proceedings” prior to House authorization against sitting President Donald Trump. Gooden introduced a resolution to remove Nadler from the House Judiciary Committee chairmanship. 

In 2020, Nadler was “one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct impeachment proceedings of Donald J. Trump.”

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adler’s Dope sidestepping Dance

The New York City U.S. Representative in 2019 “introduced the “Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act.”

H.R.3884 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10] (Introduced 07/23/2019)
Committees: House - Judiciary; Energy and Commerce; Agriculture; Education and Labor; Ways and Means; Small Business; Natural Resources; Oversight and Reform
Committee Reports: H. Rept. 116-604
Reported to House, Part I (November 27, 2020)
Latest Action: House - 12/03/2020 Rule H. Res. 1244 passed House.

MORE: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement

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adler’s Decriminalization of Marijuana Bill 
Removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. AND

• replaces statutory references to marijuana and marihuana with cannabis
• requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to regularly publish demographic data on cannabis business owners and employees

After handing out dope (like promising to pay for schools with lottery profit) comes the pretense of mopping up its effect, while continuing to pander to narrow interests

 

• establishes a trust fund to support various programs and services for individuals and businesses in communities impacted by the war on drugs
• imposes a 5% tax on cannabis products and requires revenues to be deposited into the trust fund
• makes Small Business Administration loans and services available to entities that are cannabis-related legitimate businesses or service providers

gobbledygook and snare

 

• prohibits the denial of federal public benefits to a person on the basis of certain cannabis-related conduct or convictions
• prohibits the denial of benefits and protections under immigration laws on the basis of a cannabis-related event (e.g., conduct or a conviction)
• establishes a process to expunge convictions and conduct sentencing review hearings related to federal cannabis offenses

Think tank, University, nonprofit profit takers’ farmed-out cuts factored in

• directs the Government Accountability Office to study the societal impact of cannabis legalization.

Nadler’s Bromides: Politician Caught Dancing

“It’s past time to right this wrong nationwide and work to view marijuana use as an issue of personal choice and public health, not criminal behavior.” (emphasis added)

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hen “righting a wrong” sets up a boomerang with clearly identifiable self-fulfilling, broad societal consequences, the act proposed is neither prima facie nor a veiled attempt to right a wrong. The act merely panders to narrow and passing interests. In its careless conjuring, its dance of deceit, the act sidesteps; it fails deliberately to either address or solve fundamental problems. It enviably compounds problems.

This is the pattern and character of America’s entrenched politicians. They throw up (and grow rich on) distractions. They blame some other person, place, thing, or fiction. They create and multiply crises for others to clean up, deal with, suffer through down the road.

We have deep and deeply serious health and welfare problems in this country. We have a society in distress.

An entrenched cretin on Capitol Hill, who pours gasoline on flames, who (taking his cut upfront) proposes selling dope to the sick and to a deeply distressed society presents a clear and present danger to all society. A public servant who fails to serve the needs of the people; a public official who fails to provide for the common defense (not militarism) and promote the general welfare of the people of the United States does not deserve a place in their government.

Congressman Jerrold Lewis (Jerry) Nadler (and many like him, male and female) should have been retired long ago — recalled, rejected, deselected, and removed from public office.  

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Nadler
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3884
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=N000002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Nadler
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/SearchResults
https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=G000589
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Gooden

 

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