Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

Americans, are you okay with this? For the next two years Congress will not pass or amend any laws.

DACA will be ignored. The Immigration laws will not get fixed. Nothing will get done but investigations. People are now saying that if Congress begins to investigate when they are motivated by hatred, when there is no evidence of a crime, it is the re-emergence of McCarthyism...which was a great evil.

The function of Congress is to make laws. They are also supposed to do oversight over the Executive Branch, but...

"Oversight is an implied rather than an enumerated power under the U.S. Constitution.[2] The government's charter does not explicitly grant Congress the authority to conduct inquiries or investigations of the executive, to have access to records or materials held by the executive, or to issue subpoenas for documents or testimony from the executive."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_oversight

How do you feel about the plan for endless investigation which will prevent members of Congress from doing anything else?
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
windinhishair · 61-69, M
It would be an abdication of Congressional responsibility not to investigate presidential crimes. Thank goodness we finally have a House that will not function as protection for the White House. Let the facts lead where they will. If Congress gets nothing done, then oh well. That's what happens when a criminal is elected to the presidency. Some day we'll have a real president in the office and we can return to the business of the nation.

McCarthyism was a great evil of Republicanism, and now that we are repeating it with the Republicans, it still is.

You didn't seem to have a problem with nothing getting done during the last six years of Obama's presidency, when Congress was the most obstructionist in history.
Platoscave · F
@windinhishair obama was slightly kinder to those dark people south of the border. he also made some lame moves to help the environment. mostly he sold out to hold onto power. tragic.

but we are in more trouble than anyone can imagine. the violators of all stripes are ascendant.
too much money in politics.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Platoscave Money has a lot to do with it. Corporations can basically give whatever they want to, and have the ability to buy politicians of both parties.
Platoscave · F
yup.