Ryan Grim has an update on his story about the "Super Congress", which I discussed yesterday:
The Super Congress amounts to an institutionalization of the gang structure that exists informally in the Senate, where a small number of lawmakers write legislation behind closed doors and then announce it to the public। Legislation written by the Super Congress would be extremely difficult for individual members of Congress to stop.No wonder both liberals and conservatives hate the proposal.
Indeed, the Founding Fathers' vision of prosperity has been destroyed - and we've gone from the "wealth of nations" to the "debt of nations" - at least in part because our political system has been subverted by non-Constitutional committees and entities.
For example, the country's most powerful "agency" - the Federal Reserve - has admitted that its 12 member banks are private, not government entities.
It's easy to see why the "leadership" wants to do this. It's the same reason we have a huge increase in executive power and all kinds of automatic laws that take effect unless Congress acts, instead of when Congress acts. The U. S. Congress is totally incapable of resolving any issue larger than the dedication of a Post Office. (Excepting of course, truly bipartisan acts like expanding militarism.)
ReplyDeleteNo one seems to want to say it, but the U. S. Constitution is not working. Yes, we still want to preserve the Bill of Rights even though those rights trampled every day, but the structure of government achieved by compromises 200 years ago is no longer adequate and we need to ditch this and start over. My own preference is secession on a mass scale. Breaking up the country is probably the only way to save it.