[Avalon Memories]

True, you can't, but look what the House did just this week. Passed some bill trying to tie the President's hands on foreign policy. Congress routinely tries to usurp presidential foreign policy and commander-in-chief powers. The Constitution invests the presidency with authority over foreign policy and commander-in-chief matters, but Congress and the courts don't give a crap about the Constitution when it doesn't suit their purposes.

With all their ridiculous go-nowhere investigations, Congress also routinely acts as a law enforcement and judicial body even though the Constitution does not give them such powers. They have multitudes of staffers who do nothing but investigative work, and they even subpoena private citizens to testify in their kangaroo pseudo courts. The Constitution has been little more than a quaint artifact to Congress for generations now. And don't get me started on our laughable federal courts. Nope, trust in the system might be for thee, but not for me.

[Red Badger]

Ever since George Washington’s time Congress has been trying to limit the President’s powers by hook or by crook.

After Watergate, they had an easy time of it because of the wrongly perceived corruption of the Executive Branch.

Now they want to go a step further and take or usurp the presidential powers of state and diplomacy.

I cannot imagine the chaos that would ensue from 535 Secretaries of State............................