Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Miles Law Redux

At Power Line, Ed Driscoll posts two headlines showing once again the truth that is Miles Law, namely that “where you stand depends on where you sit.” The first was posted today: 

Biden Has Signed a Record 21 Executive Orders In Less Than a Week

Whereas the second was stated by Joe Biden in October, 2020, being interviewed by ABC News before the election:

You can't [legislate] by executive order unless you're a dictator. We're a democracy. We need consensus.

So, it was terrible when Trump did it, but fine when Biden does it? COTTonLINE asks, if executive orders made Trump a dictator, don’t they also make Biden a tyrant? Or, put declaratively, if they are okay for Biden, they were okay for Trump.