When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns

Accountability is an absolute necessity for all government activity, so the American public—not the politicians–must be the party to enforce accountability and this is why we need an Accountability Amendment to our Constitution (see 3/19/2017 post)

There currently is congressional oversight of the executive branch departments. In the past, there have been endless meaningless committee meetings using a lot of TV face time, but no real problem resolution has been accomplished.  Why spend all that time and money investigating a problem only to have no corrective action taken?  Fast and Furious was a prime example of the Justice Department telling Congress to shove it.  As a result, no action was taken because no grand jury was impaneled and no indictment issued.  The law was broken and the outlaw got away with it.

Some of the members of the Justice Department think that they are mini-gods who literally are above the law. They do not believe in equal justice under the law.  This is wrong and must be corrected.  How do we do it?  We do it by having any congressional committee empanel a grand jury and pursue an indictment—please no ham sandwich indictments or witch hunts.  When an indictment is received, it is then turned over to the Justice Department for prosecution.  Let’s say the Justice Department fails to prosecute the case.  Then when their budget is under consideration for the next fiscal year, the monies appropriated are reduced by an appropriate amount until the useless department does its job or no longer exists.

If given subpoena authority, some members of congress will surely want to abuse this authority and issue 25 subpoenas from each oversight committee because they are only interested in TV and news face time. i.e., they are the scum politicians. Therefore, starting out each committee must be monitored and maybe the number of indictments limited by the House and Senate leadership.

After writing this post, this observer seems to remember that a congressman on TV recently stated that Congress already has some form of prosecution authority and used it for 175 years. Hopefully that is true and it will be used again soon.

Congressional committees that investigate and discuss problems that need solving but then do nothing to fix them are a waste of time and taxpayer money.