Posted on 10/27/2011 1:44:08 PM PDT by Graewoulf
The System of Checks and Balances is designed to restrain abuse of power by another branch of the US Federal Government. The Legislative Branch may start investigations, especially against the Executive Branch.
Why has the Legislation Branch not used their power of Checks and Balances by by investigating Obama? What more is needed than a Spendaholic-in-Chief, who is afraid to meet with Congressional Leaders and attends pep rallies instead, who has destroyed over 4 TRILLION dollars in less that 3 years, who signed the un-Constitutional obama"care" bill into law, etc. etc.?
Clearly the Executive Branch has abused its power!
What has happened to the system of Checks and Balances?
I say that, starting with Wilson, and greatly exacerbated by FDR and Johnson, capitalized on by this “administration”....there are no longer “co-equal” branches of government.
We have a dictator in the White House and Congress won’t do a goddamned thing about it. Period.
Ask the Attorney General. He has already given the answer.
It’s really quite simple.
All spending legislation must, per the Constitution, originate in the House of Representatives.
All the House Republicans need to do is say “Revenue is $2 trillion; we’re budgeting spending at $2 trillion. That’s our final offer”.
But they won’t do it.
They’re as useless as “runway behind you”.
Boehner, Cantor are among the establishment. Tom Delay was a firebrand who used the full power of the House, like Pelosi but not to her dictatorial extreme. Armey was pretty good too. But Boehner and Cantor suck.
The race card is more powerful than our system of checks and balances.
Checks and balances are doing quite well as Congress writes CHECKS on accounts without sufficient BALANCES!!!
The House can stop Obama from destroying the country by defunding the bureaucracies (like the EPA) that he using to bypass Congress. The Democrats did this when they cut off funding for the Vietnam War during the 1970’s so that they could set up their welfare state.
From:
Senate Report 93-549
REPORT
OF THE
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE
TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY
UNITED STATES SENATE
FOREWORD
Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.
These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes.
Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may:
seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.
With the melting of the cold war—the developing detente with the Soviet Union and China, the stable truce of over 20 years duration between North and South Korea, and the end of U.S. involvement in the war in Indochina-there is no present need for the United States Government to continue to function under emergency conditions.
The Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency was created1 to examine the consequences of terminating the declared states of national emergency that now prevail; to recommend what steps the Congress should take to ensure that the termination can be accomplished without adverse effect upon the necessary tasks of governing; and, also, to recommend ways in which the United States can meet future emergency situations with speed and effectiveness but without relinquishment of congressional oversight and control.
In accordance with this mandate, the Special Committee-in conjunction with the Executive branch, expert constitutional authorities, as well as former high officials of this Government-is now engaged in a detailed study to determine the most reasonable ways to restore normalcy to the operations of our Government.
A first and necessary step was to bring together the body of statutes, which have been passed by Congress, conferring extraordinary powers upon the Executive branch in times of national emergency.
This has been a most difficult task. Nowhere in the Government, in either the Executive or Legislative branches, did there exist a complete catalog of all emergency statutes. Many were aware that there had been a delegation of an enormous amount of power but, of how much power, no one knew. In order to correct this situation, the Special Committee staff was instructed to work with the Executive branch, the Library of Congress, and knowledgeable legal authorities to compile an authoritative list of delegated emergency powers.
This Special Committee study, which contains a list of all provisions of Federal law, except the most trivial, conferring extraordinary powers in time of national emergency, was compiled by the staff under the direction of Staff Director William G. Miller, and Mr. Thomas A. Dine; utilizing the help of the General Accounting Office, the American Law Division of the Library of Congress, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the Office of Emergency Planning.
The Special Committee is grateful for the assistance provided by Jack. Goldklang of the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Lester S. Jayson, the director of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress; Joseph E. Ross, head of the American Law Division of CRS; and especially Raymond Celada of the Ameri- can Law Division and his able assistants, Charles V. Dale and Grover S. Williams; Paul Armstrong of the General Accounting Office; Linda Lee, Patrick Norton, Roland Moore, William K. Sawyer, Audrey Hatry, Martha Mecham, and David J. Kyte.
The Special Committee will also publish a list of Executive Orders, issued pursuant to statutes brought into force by declared states of emergency, at a later date.
And this AIN’T tin foil hat stuff. It is an actual Senate report in the National Archives
Aside from the blah, blah, blah, every indication is the the Republicans don’t want to check Obama so much as blame Obama. They don’t care to stop him. Heck, they even voted for spending increases saying, “It’s Obama’s fault I voted for spending increases”.
I say, Graewoulf, you don’t understand the game
You see..its REALLY The RinoCracy vs Flyover Country....and ANYTHING the Executive Branch does...basically attracts power to DC and The Rinocracy.
As long as We the People continue to play the suckers in Flyover Country ..it continues. However, and this is the ONLY thing DC and the RinoCracy continue to fear, is that as soon as We the People put our foot down...the game ends.
We have been lied to in that we only have a single ruling party with a left and right wing.
If we still had a functioning constitution this would not be occurring. The president is acting like a dictator and as someone had posted this has been going on since Wilson.
The USSC is no help as it is now 100% political and only paying lip service to the Constitution. Doubt what I say? Explain the best legal minds in the USA almost exclusively reaching 5-4 decisions.
One question: When was this published?
Thanks for posting this.
Good question. This democracy is turning into a dictatorship.
1973 I believe. There was an updated version done in 2001 that reflected some statutory changes since the original, but in truth not much has changed.
We are still under a state of emergency and for all intents and purposes the presidents power is unlimited.
Since our sissy RINOs refuse to use THEIR Checks and Balances, what can the Judicial Branch do to stop Dictator High Poo Bah Obama?
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