When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns.

American politics is defined as the exchange of money for the power to influence the use of government force.

Recently Speaker of the House Paul Ryan informed the nation that the reason work had not progressed on the Obamacare repeal is that Congress had spent that time of this congressional session repealing regulations issued by the Obama Administration. Good.

My response to this is that if Congress had done their constitutional duty, wrote and issued the regulations needed to support the laws they pass, this repeal exercise would not have been needed. My understanding of the situation is that during the Clinton Administration, a deal was made that the executive branch of the federal government would write the regulations to support the laws passed by the Congress with a time limit during which if Congress objected to these regulations, the regulations would become null and void.  By agreeing to this, the Congress gave full authority to the executive branch to write the regulations which when approved become law and then enforce them.  Congressional dereliction of duty occurred when the Congress abdicated their constitutional responsibility to make and pass laws by not writing and issuing necessary regulations.  By having the executive branch write regulations which become law, not only did this action delegate too much power to the executive branch, but it created a wonderful opportunity for corruption to occur and create the swamp that now needs to be drained.  How stupid can the members of a branch of government be?

When is the Congress going to begin writing the regulations needed to support the laws they pass? If not now, this country is going to experience one constitutional crisis after another with who knows what final outcome.  We already have a federal judicial system with judges who do not know how to read, ignore the laws passed by Congress and the Constitution and are fast becoming another branch of government which promotes anarchy.

The lack of congressional progress in implementing President Trump’s health and tax reforms and recent federal court decisions are prime examples of why we need to pass Accountability and Federal Judiciary Amendments to the Constitution. We can’t let work that must be done and laws to be passed interfere with congressional recesses, can we?  The political hack federal judges don’t give a damn about the Constitution because they think they are smarter than the founding fathers and will change the Constitution to suit their personal agenda.  If you agree with activism, then you can expect interpretation of the Constitution to change every 5-10 years as every constitutional issue is revisited by different judges.  When the Constitution is changed every 5-10 years, the public begins to believe that the law does not need to be followed because it will soon change; therefore, ignore all the laws and do what you want to do.  When that happens and it is close to happening now, that ladies and gentlemen is anarchy.

Your professional politician Member of Congress is counting on you forgetting what you dislike about him or her before the next election so that member can get re-elected. If you truly want to have input into how we are governed, the country needs the Revised Accountability Amendment (March 19, 2017 post) enabling the public to remove federal officials and overturn laws and court decisions, and The Federal Judiciary Amendment (March 31, 2016 post) which removes federal judge lifetime appointments and replaces them with a single elected 10 year term.  All politicians will vigorously oppose both amendments because it makes all government immediately accountable to the public with serious consequences for lying and actions that damage our citizens and country.