Congress vitiates itself

They gave up authority that they should keep to keep bad actor out of government. They need to spend the time and do it correctly.

Until our nation wakes up and creates a dedicated plan to "fire them all" we'll forever remain the helpless serfs they take us for. Period. We have the power but no plan.

This congress has been useless since it convened on January 3, 2011! Too many career politicians, liberals and RINOs!

Spineless idiots.

This Congress sucks!




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Comngressm Ih, Congress, Just what the phuque have you been doing? You act like you need to be turned out in the streets While Obama makes all the decisions about America. A pure Dictattor who no longer needs a Congress Hence you are fired

Now law for government house and Senate one and done 401K and medicare at retirement

No matter who we vote for, it's always the same.

This is just not good ... We need to get rid of this congress hell we need to get rid of all of them and just start over ... This country is screwed it will take years and years to fix it if it even can be ...

No good self-serving bastards.

It is the power of the citizens that is invested in Congress, and they have just thrown it away.

STUPID!

Article II, Section 2

"He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments."

Does anyone read this document any more or just go off half cocked?

The problem is: they shouldn't have done it in this case. No one has made a good or sufficient case to me as to why Congress ought to have thought it proper to vest the appointment of these not-quite-so-inferior-as-that officers in the President alone.

It makes no difference. Even if it wasn't Constitutional, the Democrat controlled Senate would have done it anyway without a single Republican vote.

This lets judges appoint their own clerks, bailiffs, and other officers, and lets Cabinet-level secretaries appoint their low-level staff. But Congress and the President have always understood that the President must go to the Senate to appoint any officer above a certain “Government Service” level, and especially any officer having roughly the same rank as an ambassador. (The Senate must also confirm a new general or admiral.)
I don't disregard them as trivial low-level appointments. Those in secondary tiers are often the next to fill the top positions. As such, their backgrounds and intentions deserve no less attention than those who fill the top posts

I think many of these positions are civil service. I can't say for sure. I wouldn't think that a clerk or bailiff need be cleared by the Senate.

Undoubtedly, there is a need to expedite the presidential appointee process. However, ceding more power to an administration that is overzealous to impose policy by administrative fiat, is not the way to go. Congress has slowly abjured its power to the executive branch by writing open-ended legislation, granting federal agencies wide latitude to promulgate destruction over our economy. Obama has already used radical executive appointees for the purpose of consolidating power in the executive branch. Why would any Republican sign on to such a dangerous expansion of executive power? Whom do they think Obama will appoint to these positions if there is no oversight?

Here’s a novel idea for streamlining the confirmation process of presidential appointees: shrink the size of government so there will be no need for most of these jobs. It’s high time for Congress to halt its self-immolation, and reign in the executive department behemoth.

Overzealous is an understatement. But then Congress has a record of throwing its power away. Look what they did with the Federal Reserve Act.

Actually, if you read the bill itself, it's talking about some top-level administrators in various Cabinet departments. We're not talking Secretaries, but we are talking Assistant Secretaries, the Chief Scientist at NOAA, people like that.

95 republicans gone

Congress has given too much power to the president! “Bipartisan” doesn’t make S.679 right, just a two-partied wrong. Throwing a “bipartisan” label on faulty, unconstitutional and dangerous legislation doesn’t mean your course of action is right. It only means you’ve got idiots on both sides of the aisle! 95 Republicans voted for the bill, and 166 Democrats voted for it.

It may look like "executive branch Swiss cheese" but this smells more like executive branch "Limburger Cheese" to me.

All Congress and Senate that voted for the "Patriot Act" or the NDAA regardless of party affiliation should be "kicked to the curb".

They violated the oath of office they swore on a bible to protect.

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Every last one of the SOB's to the curb

Add the idiots on this move if they were not on the list.

Since this Martial Law controlled Ceremonial Congress does as it's told, why not have Citizen Volunteers sit there for a week or two, get to use the gym and eat at the cafeteria, get some free medical care play some golf and just send those elected congressmen home.

All we can do other than a full revolution is vote out all incumbents. It may come down to the revolution.

I hear that. I sure hope we can avoid going that far but like you say, it's looking more like it every day.

Hell, I went to war in Vietnam to fight communism (or so I was told) never in my 64 years on this planet did I suspect that they would have as much control in our own government as they do now.

We have been sold out by all politicians.

I would like to say thanks for your service. I know how it is to be a veteran. When I got home they were spitting in our faces and calling us baby killers.
It pisses me off also. This country should be about all of us being treated equally and fairly, we should never have to be put into a situation where we may actually have to fight our own fellow Americans.
This so called politically correct society we live in is a joke that is becoming a nightmare.

If the left has anything to do with it, the Lord will be taboo in the United States. I think they prefer a little prayer rug that you kneel on 5 times a day.

I'm with ya!

Good point about the Cubans. I hadn't thought about that.

Thats what you get when the party of NO locks it all up , that was a gutsy move by Mr Obama .

Are you kidding, this was completely Bipartisan. This bill only means you’ve got idiots on both sides of the aisle!