The EPA head shows who’s really in charge in America

The Constitution never even contemplated an administrative state as part of its checks and balances so this institution operates without any check on its power.

Michael Regan is the administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. His job makes him a subset of the Executive branch but you’d never know that from his threat to Congress: If the legislators don’t give him the legislation he wants, he’d go ahead and do what he wants without them. This is a shocking usurpation of legislative authority but it’s par for the course in Biden’s Washington, D.C.

When our Founders drafted the Constitution, they were excessively concerned lest one branch of government gain disproportionate power, turning into a tyranny. The Constitution, therefore, spreads out power between the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial branches, with each institution checking the power of the two others.

However, in the ensuing 240 years, America gained something the Founders never imagined: An administrative state that, while ostensibly part of the executive branch, has also taken on the legislative powers of a lazy Congress that is big on showboating and small on doing the hard work of actually governing. Most of the rules that burden Americans, whether individually or through their businesses, come from the uncontrolled, permanent, hard-left regulatory state.

...However, in the ensuing 240 years, America gained something the Founders never imagined...

BULL.

The Founders were well-educated and knew their history, and I think what happened in Europe a couple of thousand years before weighed heavily in their debates on and creation of our Constitution...

For anyone in need of a quick refresher...

Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome

There's a reason publik skrewls have been dumbing down Amerucans for generations.

The ignorant are far easier to subjugate.

What really led to the permanent bureaucracy was passage of various Civil Service protections over the last century or so.

When the President could fire any bureaucrat, and lay off entire departments, he had control over the bureaucracy. When Congress passed individual appropriations instead of huge bills, they could de-fund rebellious groups.

The key to the people regaining control is eliminating civil service, and letting the President fire people, and replace them.

I think we also didn’t have so many jobs needing Senate confirmation. It should be just cabinet officials.

The EPA head [??? emphasis added] shows who’s really in charge in America

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As a consequence of generations of parents not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had intended for those powers to be understood, we are in the following situation as a consequnce of misguided, apathetic voters imo.

Post-17th Amendment ratification career lawmakers long ago discovered the "smoke and mirrors" trick of front-ending their legislative responsibilities with constitutionally undefined, so-called federal regulatory agencies (eg. EPA, IRS, FDA, etc.) run by non-elected bureaucrats.

More specifically, corrupt lawmakers not only let government bureaucrats do lawmakers' unpopular, unconstitutional, dirty legislative / regulatory work for them, allowing lawmakers to keep their voting records clean to get reelected, but lawmakers let bureaucrats get away with stealing state powers to make such decisions.

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

In fact, militia issues aside, you can bet that if a given federal regulation or spending program is not reasonably related to the U.S. Post Service, then the regulation or spending program is unconstitutional and probably win your bet most of the time imo.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big, alleged election-stealing, Democratic Party-pirated federal and state governments oppressing everybody under their boots...

Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.

Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.

Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Insights welcome.

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