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Maybe unsaid but the idea that Congress can create an organization that is not executed by the executive is the issue

shawabawa3 9mo ago
Isn't that the entire point of congress? Otherwise why not just have an all powerful president and do away with the houses
- realo 9mo ago
  Just wait for next year under the current administration ...
- blibble 9mo ago
  you appear to be there already
fatbird 9mo ago
It wasn't an issue for 250 years, or at least until the Unitary Executive Theory became a dream of the Federalist Society.
SailorJerry 9mo ago
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This sounds like a reasonably debatable argument.
- mkoubaa 9mo ago
  There's a lot of groupthink around this. I blame the pseudoscience called economics
dv_dt 9mo ago
If you go by the default constitutional allocations, Congress starts with much tighter control of how the executive operates than it does now. Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to the executive branch - some for pragmatic management reasons, but some as a trend of historic concentration of power towards the executive. Congress can also delegate to non exec branch bodies like the Fed and other quasi-govermental orgs. Congress has the constitutional purview to take back a lot of that power into it's direct hands instead of allocating it to other bodies if it so chose.
- vablings 9mo ago
  > Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to the executive branch Part of the reason for this is that 2-year presidents are more common, they make promises within the first two years and even if they meet them, it can take years for effects to be seen in the general population, so the party loses majority in the midterms and then nothing happens politically for the remaining two years. Congress is often slow and burdensome (for good reason) but it always makes out for a disenfranchised voter base

Isn't that the entire point of congress? Otherwise why not just have an all powerful president and do away with the houses

realo 9mo ago
Just wait for next year under the current administration ...
blibble 9mo ago
you appear to be there already

fatbird 9mo ago

It wasn't an issue for 250 years, or at least until the Unitary Executive Theory became a dream of the Federalist Society.

SailorJerry 9mo ago

I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This sounds like a reasonably debatable argument.

mkoubaa 9mo ago
There's a lot of groupthink around this. I blame the pseudoscience called economics

dv_dt 9mo ago

If you go by the default constitutional allocations, Congress starts with much tighter control of how the executive operates than it does now. Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to the executive branch - some for pragmatic management reasons, but some as a trend of historic concentration of power towards the executive. Congress can also delegate to non exec branch bodies like the Fed and other quasi-govermental orgs. Congress has the constitutional purview to take back a lot of that power into it's direct hands instead of allocating it to other bodies if it so chose.

vablings 9mo ago
> Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to the executive branch Part of the reason for this is that 2-year presidents are more common, they make promises within the first two years and even if they meet them, it can take years for effects to be seen in the general population, so the party loses majority in the midterms and then nothing happens politically for the remaining two years. Congress is often slow and burdensome (for good reason) but it always makes out for a disenfranchised voter base