The Constitution of the US, so brilliantly created by the Founders, gave total countrol of the Executive to a single man. That is the way we operate.
The FOunders limited the scope and power of the Executive as well. Those limitations have been severely eroded, and the Congress has failed miserably in keeping them in place.
To control that man, they also brilliantly gave the people and states powerful representation in the form of Congress.
And with the passage of the 17th Amendment, the states were pretty much kicked out of their representative body, making the election of Senators a popular free for all instead of the deliberate choosing of State Legislatures.
It is evil to the extreme that Congress does not, through its Constitutional prerogative and duty, reign in no matter who sits in the WH, as a single man by human nature, will allow power go to his head.
They all suffer from the same disease in that none are reining the other in, but abdicating their jobs to see what they can get out of the other. We have gone from checks and balances to conspiracy.
Your comments are the same for every present and prior occupants of the WH.
Yes, they are.
BTW, I was far more scared of the previous occupant than the present.
Not so much. The previous occupant was limited (to even a small degree) by the Congress, but more so by the outrage of the people. All America who knew the words understood the meaning of FUBO, and Americans were quite open in their disgust with the policies and behaviour of the Administration. That disgust and the associated delving into every facet of the administration's actions led to the truth being exposed even before the lies gained a toehold in the media. The newsreader bobbleheads could repeat the lies at the cost of their own diminishing credibility or do stories on cute little ducklings crossing the street, and often limited the former in favor of the latter. Those factors and constant, incisive scrutiny limited what the former could get away with.
Yet at present, the trend among the same populace who scrutinized every EO and edict of the Obama Administration is to fall into the somnolence associated with 'We Won", and with a Congress at least carrying the same Party brand as the Executive.
The most dangerous situation is one in which all parties in DC are in agreement, and the populist wave, often the same people who excoriated the previous administration are not lending the same amount of study to their newly elected leader.
The system was set up to be somewhat adversarial, otherwise the amount of vigor with which those we have granted the power of their office will be scrutinized in their actions will suffer. Frankly, those of us who are of a conservative bent will allow neither side of the aisle a pass, because we operate on principle. Those who are willing to proclaim they love the man, and will not criticize him nor tolerate criticism any more than a schoolboy wants to hear his 'true love' is unfaithful, will persist in denial, and casting principles to the four winds continue to support someone or policy which is unworthy of support.
All should be scrutinized, dispassionately, with the same level of incisiveness. All have the ability to abuse more power than ever within our Government, and frankly, the relinquishment of some of that usurped power to the States and the People is my aim, not the garnering of more to any branch of the Federal Government regardless of who is at the helm.
Obviously, we have not been able to depend on the (leftist) opposition for any dispassionate analysis of anything. They live in their emotion and simply are not capable. We have all depended on Conservatives who have been able to articulate the underpinning logic and Constitutional Authority for the actions of any branch of Government, or we have opposed such actions. That is the fundamental nature of Conservatism, a belief in rational and moral principles, and, in government and politics, the application of those principles to law, as limited or empowered by the Constitution.
Many of us who had little use for the last administration were at least consoled by the occasional resistance along partisan lines to that administration. However, that resistance was seriously flawed, in that it was often too little or absent when it came to the more totalitarian aspects of the Obama administration. Should this president align with the apparent progressive nature of most of the current GOP as expressed by the lack of meaningful resistance, the absence of resistance from Congress will again be manifest, and the Republic, as a Constitutionally governed entity will further suffer.
Expect vigilance, especially from those of us who will analyze the actions of this administration against principles, for eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty. Failure to pay that price may well cost more of what precious little Liberty we have left.
