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Rest in Piss, Dick Cheney
Cheney only believed in power. Masterminds of the invasion of Iraq after 9/11 dont believe in anything but power. -
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Rest in Piss, Dick Cheney
So, this may not be the exact place for it, but I continue to be fascinated by "strong executive" political theories. I don't endorse them, particularly as currently implemented, but have to admit that they make some sense in a realpolitik sort of way. As noted in the piece above, Clinton and Obama were beneficiaries of and not exactly opposed to the strong executive theories advanced and implemented by predecessor administrations and people like Cheney. This partly or maybe largely in response to a gridlocked and ineffective Congress. But let's examine some things that make a strong executive sort of make sense, or, in the same breath, why Congress has become useless. Proliferation of agencies (Congress lacks the expertise and agility to address many situations and policies, so they delegate to agencies) Agencies are inherently a) undemocratic and b) easily captured by moneyed interests (point a) may actually be necessary) Do the agencies have to be executive controlled? Money in politics means Congress critters are less responsive to their constituents, to the people Related to or subsumed by the above, Congress critters are obsessed with reelection to the exclusion of doing congressional business The two-party and primary system force Congress critters to adhere often to "national" rather than local priorities, at least for election and fundraising purposes Writing these down, I start to think it is really nothing more than money in politics that has fucked everything up. No more, no less. Everything else is symptomatic. Blinding glimpse of the obvious, there.- 1
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Whenever I get bored and need a laugh I just go to the BBC Pidgin page (a real thing) and get a chuckle
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