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.
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.
Good question. This democracy is turning into a dictatorship.