This would severely limit the power of the executive branch, since no regulations – such as the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gases – could become effective without approval from both houses of Congress, a high bar. In this way, congressional Republicans are seeking to bring back to Congress the regulatory powers that have gradually devolved to the executive branch during the past 50 years.
What the GOP would like is to have such a provision apply only to
democratic presidents.
Many republican presidents have gleefully wallowed in the mud hole of the Imperial Presidency.
Although returning the Executive to the original intent of the Framers – where the office is passive, with little power, and mostly administrative – may at first sight seem desirable, unfortunately the effort is tainted with partisan opportunism rather than good faith, as with the notion to repeal the 17th Amendment.
Indeed, this has noting to do with ‘original intent’ but is a partisan effort by the right to undermine the hated administrative entities which conflicts with its ideology. It’s telling the article notes the EPA, as the High Court recently upheld as Constitutional the Agency’s regulatory authority.
Nothing has actually frightened me about the Republicans until this article. Mental illness in a position of power is not a place this country needs to go.
The GOP has been completely unhinged since Obama took office. Some of it has to do with the GOP perceiving the WH as its ‘birth right,’ that only Patrician republicans are ‘worthy’ to be C-in-C.
Hahahaha
). No way it passes. It's just more political theater to distract the masses. They (GOP) know it can't pass and they don't want it to because in a few years their man may be in the White House and they simple would not want the Congress to have that power.
