Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A Powerless Congress

I'm tired of the congress whining about how they have no power.

Supposedly these men are among the most powerful in the nation, yet they say they can't get any information on the Fast and Furious scandal. They make requests and get stonewalled, or they get documents that are so redacted that you can't tell what's in them. "Oh well? What can we do, they refuse to them them to us." What a bunch of wimps. They make requests from the White House about various policies and things he's doing, Obama ignores them, and again they behave as though their hands were tied.

Now because of laws they passed creating such things as the EPA, and the FCC which are made up of non-elected officials, who mostly answer to the president, the president has the ability to create every manner of regulation (read law), even though he is not a member of the legislative branch. Oh what we can do they say again?

Here are a few suggestions. How about do away with these unconstitutional organizations. The president has far too much power, which the congress has given him and now they wonder that it's being used against them.

We have a president enacting every manner of legislation through regulation. He is by fiat flouting the law and the constitution and the congress just sits there and takes it.

Every indication is that we have a president that is bent on destroying this nation financially at the least which will surely result in the end of our nation as we know it if something is not done. The American people are also not nearly outraged enough about what is going on. If it is not our place to do something about this then who's place is it?

We desperately need to take back our government. We need to demand our leaders stop what they're doing and give us back what has been ours all along, our freedom.

How are we any better off than communist nations. We are told what we can grow on our own property, what pesks and vermin we can kill, whether we can cut down a tree and what tree we can plant in it's place, we are now told what kind of light bulbs we can have in our homes, and all the time none of the laws applies to the people who pass them.

What happened to EQUAL JUSTICE? Now we're being sold a bill of goods called social justice which is directly opposed to equal justice. In social justice we are told there should be one set of rules for one class of people and another set of rules for the other class of people. This is not what our founders envisioned when they set up our nation.

How is it that we allow congress to write laws in which they always include a caveat for themselves so it doesn't apply to them. This alone shows they don't really feel it's for our good or they would certainly include themselves in the law.

The law is supposed to be there to protect people, but they use it as a means to rule over us direct the smallest details of our lives. Is this really what our founding fathers envisioned? I do not believe it is.

Both the republicans and especially the democrats are not willing ever, it seems, to roll back any law they've passed. I suppose in their minds it would be tantamount to declaring they were either wrong or didn't know what they were doing. The reality is that they ARE wrong and they DON'T know what they're doing. Most of these non-representing representatives don't have a clue what it means to live under the rules they've written. Why is it that a congressional member can work for 2 or 6 years and can get a retirement for life from that. Where else in our nation do things work like this?

Our congress is powerless. They have abdicated almost all their power to the judges and the executive branch. They are in charge of the purse strings of the nation, but now because of the power they  have given such groups as the EPA they are powerless to stop them from issuing regulation after regulation that has a deep impact on the American people and still not a word from congress. At the most we hear a little whimper from them like the whining of spoiled children who want all the benefits of the power to manipulate but don't want any of the responsibility for the results.

Our congress and our president are very good at placing blame on others, but neither of them is any good at taking real responsibility for their actions.

The president hides behind the EPA, the FCC, the FDA and many other such organization, stating that he doesn't pass laws... no he only picks the people to head up these groups knowing they will do as they are told. He knows the congress is powerless to stop him because they gave him the power in the first place to do that.

We have a wimpy powerless congress who only seek to put the people of this nation down and exercise ever more control over our daily lives but do nothing about policing themselves. They have no ethics, no love or adherence to the constitution, and are afraid to confront the president. Either the above is the case or they are tacitly complicit with what is going on. Either way we will either find ourselves enslaved by them and that very soon, or we will get them out of office and get others in office who are willing to be have according the constitution and willing to make sure that all the laws they pass apply to them as well,


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