Wasn’t Nixon’s EPA E.O. every bit as unconstitutional as Obama’s Amnesty?
Why do (and did) we let Presidents get away with that stuff?
“Why do (and did) we let Presidents get away with that stuff?”
Because the old media wanted it, that is why. You don’t really believe the Congress and President hold the real power, do you? The real power has been in the media for decades.
They decide what is important and what is not, what issues matter in a campaign and which do not, and whether a politicians actions are worth investigating or not.
Watergate was a media coup.
No, it really wasn’t an EOmand it nothing at all like what Obastard did.
Congress recognized the huge problem of environmental issues in late 1969 by passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This statute recast the government’s role from a conservator of wilderness to a protector of earth, air, land, and water. Nixon signed it 1/1/70. NEPA directed the President to assemble in his Cabinet a Council on Environmental Quality.
Nixon worked with his Council and then submitted “Reorganization Plan No. 3” to Congress 7/9/70 which combined the work of many separate agencies into the new EPA (three federal Departments, three Bureaus, three Administrations, two Councils, one Commission, one Service, and many diverse offices). Aside — the same reorg plan created NOAA.
The EPA was cleared through hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives in the summer of 1970. The House Government Operations Subcommittee on Executive and Legislative Reorganization, chaired by Congressman Chet Holifield of California, met in July and August. The Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research, chaired by Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut met in July. Both subcommittees approved Nixon’s proposal and issued reports in September. The EPA opened December 2, 1970.
Why do (and did) we let Presidents get away with that stuff?
A very interesting question.
We were raising families.
We were busy in Church.
We were working.
We only were interested every two years.
Many folks were out of state and out of country for work, making the logistics for voting somewhat difficult.
We trusted but failed to verify.
No state oversight of the congress due to ratification of the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution.
No understanding whatsoever of the Constitution of the United States of America, and what it specifically allows the Federal Government to do.
Too much cash flowing to DEE CEE with no control from the States. No money earned within the borders of any sovereign state should go directly to Washington without passing through the State Department of Revenue, to insure that states are solvent and self supporting before remitting funds to the Fed.
IOW withholding should be called unconstitutional and federal taxes remitted to the states before being sent to the IRS after review of the state budget. Both State and Federal budgets must be balanced every year.
The list could be endless, but in keeping with all Bills before the Congress being no more than two pages long, this bill must conform.