Posted on 01/26/2015 1:39:48 AM PST by Jacquerie
For several decades, conservatives have lamented the growth of the administrative state, aka the fourth branch of government.
Created by congress, directed by the president, and armed with semi-despotic powers, these administrative agencies, by the number of regulations they issue, are the real lawmakers in the once American republic. On paper, the fourth branch is accountable to the reps of the people, the House and Senate of the United States. Liberals love them, for while these agencies are subject to congressional oversight, they are for practical purposes, extensions of the will of the president and are unaccountable to congress. Consider Lois Lerner, who despite being found in contempt of congress in May of 2014, wasn’t fired by Obama, and is certain to enjoy a lifelong pension funded by the taxpayers she despises. Likewise, Eric Holder was similarly held in contempt and suffers no consequences.
Liberals are nothing if not aggressive, forward thinkers. Lerner and Holder were subject to public ridicule. Of course, the Obama media ignored their shame, yet their embarrassment is public record. The left cannot stand for this. Like Obama, their lesser princes must be above popular investigation and criticism.
To make this happen, to render them truly untouchable, they must float above the people, above popular will and all oversight. A fifth branch is the answer.
In the fifth branch, agencies are set up, manned, and funded without annual appropriations. They are exempt from both congressional and executive oversight. They are not only extra-constitutional, extra-congressional, they go far beyond the fourth branch. They are thoroughly despotic organizations antithetical to republican, free government.
The trend toward lawgiving positively disconnected from the people entered a new phase during Obama’s first two years, for embedded within Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, are the seeds of a new branch, a fifth branch of government.
The Independent Payment Advisory Panel, aka Death Panel, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are purpose built politburos with tyrannical powers. They are accountable to no one and no other institution. Your congressman/senator might help you in a dispute with the Social Security Administration. He is powerless to counter a decision from Obama’s Death Panel.
If Lerner and Holder are the equivalent of drones controlled by Obama, the agencies of the fifth branch are autonomous vehicles. They operate independently to implement statist utopia. If left unchecked, they are only the start. Unless confronted, unless these two despotic agencies are specifically excised from our system, expect exponential growth of additional agencies that will soon snuff out what remains of republican liberty.
Liberals are backward thinkers, not forward. They always look backwards from freedom towards tyranny.
And will continue until unless the 2nd Amendment is enacted...
To the degree that the 2 amendment is invoked to frustrate Article V solutions, it is being distorted to the damage of liberty.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist/totalitarian agencies.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Among our itemized rights, the 2A is the most secure. It is most secure because Americans see fit to defend this right through the NRA and other watchdog groups that can make electoral life difficult for gun grabbers.
Should a fifth branch agency pass a confiscation regulation, they’ll have a difficult time finding men stupid enough to attempt enforcement.
Have you no compassion for deprived minorities, homosexual men and obese women?
Isn't that the Media?
Media is the fourth branch unencumbered by any checks and balances. Media and adminstration. . .yeah. . .revolving door and all that. . .pretty much the same.
George Steffy is the most egregious example of that - although the inbreeding with the current admin. is worse...
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