We’re in the BEST of hands!
New House Task Force Considers Push Against Presidential Overreach
House Republicans have put together a team to address what they consider unauthorized expansion of presidential power. In coming months, the Task Force on Executive Overreach will explore how Congress can begin to reassert its legislative authority. But it’s not political. So says House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who authorized the task force.
The effort is meant to address some of the habitual abuses against the constitutional separation of powers, he said.
Ay-yi-yi! Clutzes to the left of me, morons to the Right! Hey, geniuses, it only took you SEVEN years to figure this out? But here’s their big problem:
This is not just about Barack Obama,” Goodlatte told The Daily Signal. “There have been plenty of presidents, of both political parties, who have overreached and stepped on the Article I powers of Congress.” During the present administration, Goodlatte points to Obama’s executive order that halted the deportation of nearly 5 million illegal aliens. And he argues that the president has flouted the law by circumventing Congress and acting unilaterally in other matters.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear United States v. Texas, a case challenging the Obama administration on the constitutionality of the president’s executive actions on immigration. In December 2014, Goodlatte filed court papers opposing Obama’s actions.
…Goodlatte maintains that Congress shares the blame for the growth of executive power. The Judiciary chairman faults the House and Senate for willingly surrendering their lawmaking authority to unelected administrators. For a recent example, he points to the Obamacare legislation that was more than 2,700 pages long when Congress passed it in 2010. Now, Goodlatte says, the executive branch has written another 30,000 pages of regulations to implement that law. “That’s a huge number of decisions and tremendous amount of power that has been transferred from the legislative to the executive branch,” he said. “It’s a mistake for Congress to designate that much power.”
That isn’t “Presidential Overreach” – this whole thing is is because Congress (the Republican controlled House since 2010 (er, SIX years ago) and the Republican controlled Senate (since 2014) have done nothing. Stop patting yourselves on the back for FINALLY recognizing:
- Something’s wrong
- You should be doing something about it
but not recognizing you’re at fault the entire time. And that entire time – you’ve had the single tool necessary to do this. No, it isn’t filing a court case – that’s just being not just lazy but being a chump (because that’s what you look like).
No, you are lying to both yourself and, more importantly, to us. You have the tool – the power of the purse. You and your Leadership decided that Politics trumped that – you played it safe and just passed things. Great example was that Boehner and McConnell already quit by telling Obama (and the rest of us) “we surrender! We’ll fund EVERYTHING you want, President Obama”. You told everyone that you valued your political seats over wielding the political power you should have been doing all along – that’s what the refusal of not appropriating the costs of the “Presidential Overreach” programs tells us.
You refused to do the hard work before – what is the likelihood that you’ll do that later? You have let this problem fester for DECADES – way back to 1946 Administrative Law that started the ball rolling (at least officially, it stems back to Woodrow Wilson and FDR). I’ve seen no interest from DC Republicans EVAH roll that back en masse (not the Administrative Law bit although that’s true, but en masse meaning the elected politicians).
Sorry, until the politicians are changed, all you’re doing is smoke screen.
(H/T: Daily Signal)
