Jul 12 2007
Congress has lost their ever-loving minds
The last time I checked, the Presidency is a separate and co-equal branch of government. Ever since their Watergate insanity, they have become bolder and bolder in their usurpation of the Executive Branch of government. And it seems they are willing to bring their confrontation with President Bush to a full-on Constitutional crisis.
WASHINGTON — A House panel began clearing the way Thursday for contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she obeyed President Bush and skipped a hearing on the firings of federal prosecutors.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, led by Rep. Linda Sanchez, R-Calif., voted out of order Bush’s executive privilege claim that his former advisers are immune from calls to come before Congress.
The next step is for the full Judiciary Committee to issue a finding that Miers, Bush’s longtime friend and former Supreme Court nominee, was in contempt. Ultimately, the full House would have to vote on any contempt citation.
“Those claims are not legally valid,” Sanchez said of Bush’s declaration, made Monday. “Ms. Miers is required pursuant to the subpoena to be here now.”
The question grew more pressing when Bush ordered Miers to defy the committee’s subpoena, unlike a lower-ranking former White House aide, Sara Taylor, who took a different approach Wednesday.
Acting under her own subpoena, Taylor appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in an attempt to satisfy both Congress and the White House and thereby avoid a contempt citation. It’s unclear whether she was successful. She answered some questions while saying she could not answer others under Bush’s directive. The Senate committee’s ranking Republican advised Taylor that she might have been on safer legal ground had she said nothing.
We have already seen how our Congress has become increasingly disconnected and cut adrift from the American people. Everything from Immigration Reform to the Fairness Doctrine, from all the rank corruption to the ludicrous gerrymandering of “safe districts” to the point where congressmen can hold a seat almost indefinitely— all this just underlines just how removed these people are from the people they are supposed to represent.
And in the name of “We the People”, they are coming dangerously close to castrating the third pillar of our government, the Executive Branch, and if successful, they will have knowingly torn our beloved Constitution into shreds.
This not a partisan issue. Democrat and Republican do not even enter this issue. Everyone knows that a Democrat will hold the Office of the Presidency at some point or other, and he might very well be facing a Republican Congress.
Is it any wonder that the majority of Americans have lost faith in our institutions?
There are perhaps two or three instances in American history when our elected officials have become so disconnected to the people. In all of these instances, it took a national calamity to snap us out of it… Let us hope history doesn’t repeat itself here.
The executive and the judiciary have lost their minds as well. That immigration debacle was coauthored by Jorge W’s staff also, and pushed by him.
I tried to convince Bookworm that because the Judiciary and Legislative branches of government were getting out of hand, that the President needed to use his Constitutionally invested powers to break the skulls of those getting out of line, drag them back in line, and restore the balance of powers. A balance designed specifically through the tri-partite system, but is useless if two branches overstep themselves and the third branch sits around twiddling their thumbs up their arse. Which is exactly what is going on when the President does veto and pardon his personal Enforcers while Congress subpoenas and investigates Everyone.
does not veto. Obviously. Bush is actually kind of funny, in that he goes along to get along. If his opponents had honor, that might have got him somewhere.
Bush has the compassion of his mother and that gets him trouble sometimes. What is interesting is how much power we as individuals have in stopping nonsense. The Democratic Party murmur machine creates the idea that all Republicans are corrupt. To think other than the murmur is to be an individual and an individual is the enemy of liberalism.
I wrote a piece on the dream I have of sending every Democrat packing. Imaging the silence! Imagine the fear our enemies would feel!
We can do it if we act as individuals.