Posted on 03/04/2014 6:58:14 AM PST by cotton1706
Washington D.C. wont have John Dingell to push around much longer.
The venerable Democrat, whos been in the House of Representatives since 1955, is preparing to retire and hand his familys seat (his father held it before him, having been elected in 1932) to his wife. But hes not doing her any favors.
In recent years the problem isnt that lawmakers have left the House. Its that theyve stopped being lawmakers. Nobody has kept Dingell and his 434 elected colleagues from legislating. The fact that they dont legislate is a self-inflicted wound. Congress has willingly given up much of its lawmaking authority.
In terms of actual policy, most of the action is located in administrative agencies and departments, not in the Congress and the President as is commonly thought. Unelected bureaucratsnot elected representativesare running the show, scholar Joe Postell notes.
Consider several of the items Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus listed in a recent column headlined, Losing the art of legislating as John Dingell retires:
Clean Air: Lawmakers are happy to pass policymaking about carbon dioxide to the EPA.
Education Reform: Lawmakers allow the Obama Administration to offer waivers to replace the Congressionally-passed No Child Left Behind with Common Core.
Health Care: Lawmakers enacted Obamacare, but the bill was more aspiration than law. Much of the actual policy is being crafted by the Department of Health and Human Services. For his part, President Obama has felt free to issue waivers at will.
Telecommunications: The FCC is aggressively trying to expand its domain. It recently floated a plan to put observers in newsrooms, even those of newspapers and Web sites (which the agency doesnt even regulate).
The Constitution established a federal government of limited but enumerated powers.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
Intentionally changing the United States from a democratic republic to an aristocratic republic. See my book:
http://www.amazon.com/This-Republic-Illuminating-Republican-Government/dp/0991117506/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393945020&sr=8-1&keywords=this+republic
So you got a copyright complaint from yourself, did you?
Not to mention letting presidents become legislators...
Haha. No. But it’s nice to see others seeing the same things and coming to the same conclusions.
Actually, Congress exempts itself from all consequences of their actions or inactions. It’s We the People who have the problem; it’s us who is facing tyranny, not them.
Unelected bureaucratsnot elected representativesare running the show,
And First Ladies, apparently...Wookie Wegulations and “Let’s Puke!” campaigns!
Congress has given up its power and job years ago - look at he base closings and blue ribbon committees as opposed to making decisions.
We have had republicans running the budget for a couple years now and I see no improvement in government.
The USSC really needs to revisit the legal issue of administrative rulemaking as an unconstitutional delegation of power.
We have had republicans running the budget for a couple years now and I see no improvement in government.
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The Republican Pary is by and large just a big political club content with upholding the status quo, as long as they get a few crumbs from the table. It will never be a force for good as most people seem to naively believe. They are a very big part of the problem. We desperately need a new party with true conservative convictions.
All by design.
They get all of the statist control with none of the accountability.
Regulators (UNaccountable bureaucrats/socialists) are the derivatives of calculating collectivists, CONgre$$.
He has [They have] erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
DISMANTLE socialist/totalitarian collectives masquerading as government.
You are right. If we could force the regulators to sign their name to each illegal reg they write, it would go far to stop this BS. I saw this over 40 years ago and saw what was coming to every other business. Unaccountable power like absolute power corrupts.
Our Real Problem: Regulators Are Derivatives of CONgre$$.
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY COLLECTIVISM
DISMANTLE
Are you suggesting a publication or website that publishes names and home addresses of freedom-sucking, power-abusing Washington bureaucrats?
Yes. Bring out of the shadows, like roaches they can’t stand the light.
Excellent thread! Thanks!
bkmk
It would have been a great piece without so much political campaigning with mentions of “Obama...Obama...” Many potential voters tired of that long ago and went nonpolitical. Both sides in politics have been regulating too much for decades and robbing others.
For example, the mess of planning and zoning regulations in sparsely populated areas. No one needs them. There’s nearly no building happening. Potential buyers are hiring private inspectors to duplicate efforts anyway.
And zoning laws against manufacturing in the middle of nowhere. That’s insane. There are no “property values,” and the “riff-raff” are generally more moral than those trying to keep them out of homes.
Political activities are pursuits mostly of remaining political/regulator class folks, and realize it or not, they’re all hard socialists.
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