Oh no. I looked. Now you all must share in my pain.
Posted on 05/18/2018 11:31:53 AM PDT by ethom
How long did it take to get to "as we know it" and how long has it been in play ?
I know MY FB page gets at least one "said no founder ever" meme a day, teaching me and us that we are FAR from what the fed gov was meant to be in the first place.
Having said that;
YOU GO, PRESIDENT TRUMP .... IT AIN'T SUPPOSED TO BE REBUILT !
Everything the author sees as wrong, is a reason Trump was elected.
Damn, these people are dense.
It MUST be cognitive dissonance. They simply cannot allow themselves to believe that there was an electoral majority to elect this man. It would destroy their entire belief system.
Thx!
Isn’t this why he won?
Now they get it.
Another three-named, clueless jerk who has never run a business, nor been accountable for anything in her pathetic existence.
“[Heather Digby Parton] Oh no. I looked. Now you all must share in my pain.”
Blather Whigby Barf’in is a real piece of work. An unintended parody of a typical leftwing barking moonbat.
Apparently, she’s very special
https://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/digbys-hullabaloo-progressive-libel.html
Hopefully, from her keyboard to God’s eyes...we can only hope.
And?
And the problem is?
I think that is why I voted for him. tear down this govt and rebuild a better one.
Since 2016, I say several times a day:
“You just can’t make this stuff up!”
Brevik’s Muse......sheer moonbattery.
The Federal Government can’t even do the one thing it is compelled to do by our Constitution, Protect and Defend America and guarantee the Freedom of its Citizens.
Nearly every time the Legislature passes a new Law, they are in violation of our Constitution.
The Courts have become coconspirators in this. They are no longer the protectors of our Freedom, they have become power hungry Black Robed Tyrants, no better than a typical Politician.
The bureaucracy the author idealizes is nothing other than the Marxist/Progressive regulatory/administrative state, to which Congress has abdicated a broad degree of its authority.
From either a Progressive or Marxist view, they are those who backed the creation of that regulatory/administrative state and refer to it’s dictating many things in society as “democracy”. For most of that phony state, “democracy” was a one off use of the government’s elected representatives, in an act of handing off most of Congressional federal law making power to the “rule by experts” placed in each bureaucratic fiefdom. The excesses of the entire enterprise are a betrayal of the foundations of our constitutional republic.
The primary “laws” the Marxists and Progressives claim to be defending are the laws that took Congress out of deciding the exact outlines of “the law” as manifested with every new iteration of new regulations. It is and was intentional - remove the elected representatives from actually writing most “federal law” (”regulations”) - leave it to “the experts”.
Right there is a giant fallacy about the administrative/regulatory state hidden in plain sight to the honest and very rational, very logical observer. That fallacy is that it is totally illogical that merely by naming a body, any group, as “expert” that those appointed to it somehow automatically are or become imbued with the most expert opinions possible above all others, and there can be no others. It is not only not logical it is dangerous. But it serves the purpose both the Marxists and Progressives have in the administrative/regulatory state. It eliminates debate and interference (99% of the time) by the elected representatives. Why? They can’t be relied on to go along with.................the so named “experts”.
Only by massively reigning in how deeply Congress has abdicated its constitutional authority as the sole author of all federal law, can the size, depth, and breadth of the federal bureaucracy be shrunk. Even many “Conservatives” say it can’t be done, because “Congress doesn’t have the time”. That is only true if you assume that the federal government ought to be sticking its nose in everywhere it currently does, and that when it does it cannot be simple, direct and transparent but must in fact be opaque (gray) and leave the details for “the regulators”.
Congress has placed its job of oversight of most of the executive branch on the back end, as if Congress has “opted out” of the process by default, unless it specifically chooses to “opt in”. Laws should be passed that REQUIRE Congress to have no option but to “opt in” in the first place, to leave nothing for “regulators” to ever decide with a mere rubber stamp by Congress.
While “regulatory” agencies may still enforce what remains of regulations, their only role in developing them would be as proposals to Congress which Congress MUST put through the legislative process as much as Congress does with proposals that come from its own members.
If - at some point - all that can be done, Congress will have no choice but to shrink the federal role, and streamline what remains of federal law.
I know, in time many of the “experts” in the administrative/regulatory state will just move from the executive agencies to the Congressional committees with oversight on legislation and executive actions in their area of “expertise”. And in time the Marxists and Progressives will attempt to rebuild their orthodoxy of “law by the experts” as part of a new bureaucracy of employees of those Congressional committees.
Yes, a constitutional republic only remains one only with a vigilance of intent to do so.
Government became bloated and worthless during the Obama years - and seriously overpaid. (and when did bonuses to government workers begin). It needs to be drastically reduced. Let “mean and lean” become the motto. “Efficiency” is the goal.
“...who enforce regulations and monitor compliance with the law.”
Hogwash. These 50 IQ federal bureaucrat apes violate law to advance the fascist agenda and enrich themselves. We’re waiting for the president to establish an agency so we can start reporting the crimes of these fascist bureaucrats, especially those stationed in the individual states. We need an American-style Nuremberg tribunal to start submitting evidence of their crimes against the rule of law, the US Constitution and the American people.
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