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Thread #100150 Message #2004558
Posted By: Bobert
22-Mar-07 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Congress has no oversight power??!
Subject: RE: BS: US Congress has no oversight power??!
You know, Miz, you are completely correct that the Founding Fathers inplied powers to Congress to have oversight over the exectutive...
But this isn't yer grandfather's, okay, great greatgrandfather's 1927 Congress...
Bottom line, the Supreme Court will ***govern*** those powers and with the terribly ideological Republican Supreme Court, these powers of oversight won't be restored until this Supreme Court has a Democratic executive that this Supreme Court's contitituents think needs reeking in...
Tom Jefferson would puke at what this country has become...