[Jacquerie]

Little discussed at FR is that on October 16th, for all practical purposes, congress relinquished its last effective power, the power of the purse to Obama.

Obama can rule by fiat. The constitution’s limits are gone.

The senate is Obama’s b!tch and the house is not far behind. There are patriots in both houses, but in the aggregate, the careful framework of our framers is gone.

We, the sovereign people have the constitutional means to reverse course. It is time to use Article V.

[Starboard]

congress relinquished its last effective power, the power of the purse to Obama

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Absolutely true. Some on FR, including myself, noted this sad development. The congress has abdicated what little power it once had along with one of the key reasons for its own being. An amazingly self-destrucive act by people who see themselves as special yet who shun their most basic responsibilities.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I can't imagine this workaround can be permanent. Each House of Representatives is a new creation, independent of any previous House. It must be so or today's House would be more powerful than any House that followed it. Each House has the exclusive Constitutional authority to borrow on behalf of the citizenry.

There is no authority in the Constitution for any Congress to impair the authorities of a future Congress. The next House would begin on its first day with exclusive authority over the purse strings of the nation.