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Re: Obama's Executive Order
I certainly support Congress looking into the matter. My reservations are simple however: will Congress look only at their hated enemy who wields power that they object to the end result... or will Congress also look at the historical reason why he is able to do this and the role Congress played in enabling the President to do so?
I know this is going to sound very politically incorrect - but I will venture to step into it anyways: let us say that a spouse comes to a point with their mate where they no longer have any interest in sex and they simply end that part of their relationship. Then, after a year or two of this, the other spouse goes outs and decides if there is no home cooking - they will get some fast food. So the offended spouse wants to hire a private investigator to nail the mate to the wall and provide evidence of the infidelity. What are the chances that the offended spouse will look at their own complicity, their own actions and their own role in helping to create this problem in the first place?
I suspect the Congress in their possible investigations would be in a very similar position. And I further suspect nothing good or lasting would come from it and it would be very limited to "getting the bastard" that their sights are set upon. And when a new bastard from their own party comes in and does the same thing they will not be as prosecutorial nor as judgmental and will tend to look the other way.
That is where elections SHOULD come into play. If the congress devolves into such chaos then perhaps the sheeple will react and remove those that dabble in endless hearings on what the executive is up to and demand that their congress critters actually get to work and write sensible laws including the funding needed to enforce them. Everyone seems to agree that our current laws (and enforcement funding levels) have allowed 20 million illegal aliens to "slip through the cracks" and that the vast majority of them have jobs and obey at least some of the other laws. It is not the illegals that are to blame for gaming the system, but the system that is so easily gamed that is the problem.
I certainly support Congress looking into the matter. My reservations are simple however: will Congress look only at their hated enemy who wields power that they object to the end result... or will Congress also look at the historical reason why he is able to do this and the role Congress played in enabling the President to do so?
I know this is going to sound very politically incorrect - but I will venture to step into it anyways: let us say that a spouse comes to a point with their mate where they no longer have any interest in sex and they simply end that part of their relationship. Then, after a year or two of this, the other spouse goes outs and decides if there is no home cooking - they will get some fast food. So the offended spouse wants to hire a private investigator to nail the mate to the wall and provide evidence of the infidelity. What are the chances that the offended spouse will look at their own complicity, their own actions and their own role in helping to create this problem in the first place?
I suspect the Congress in their possible investigations would be in a very similar position. And I further suspect nothing good or lasting would come from it and it would be very limited to "getting the bastard" that their sights are set upon. And when a new bastard from their own party comes in and does the same thing they will not be as prosecutorial nor as judgmental and will tend to look the other way.