I remember as a young Senate staffer in late 2006, after the GOP had lost both houses of Congress to anti-war Democrats, speculating what we would do in the lame duck session before the end of the year — not much of anything, my bosses told me, because to try to ramrod partisan legislation through at the last minute was immoral. If the voters had spoken, we must respect their will.

To underscore this, President George W. Bush asked then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign. If the voters rejected the Iraq War, then one of its chief architects should retire.

Fast-forward to 2024, and lame-duck President Joe Biden demonstrated none of the same honor. Instead, he unleashed a barrage of last-minute far-left edicts in defiance of his party’s staggering election loss.

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