Either side talking about limiting executive powers? Shouldn’t we all be?

This would require that the Congress actually perform its constitutional functions instead of handing all of its power to unelected executive agency bureaucrats. Will never happen

It’s pretty clear we have too low of expectations of our elected officials.

1. Election reform
2. Executive actions reform
3. Term limits
4. Cutting off lobbyists
5-999. All the other shite that wastes tax money.

Once they get to Washington they seem to operate in anything other than the top 4.

Now this is a great thread, regardless of who is in office. 30 EOs got us to the end of Jackson's presidency. Now it's a couple days.

It’s b.s. how they stacked them up on his desk for a photo op. That kind of power could corrupt almost anyone. But he would argue he had to undo the others. So someone had to be an adult and fix it. Any adults in Congress?

Congress needs to step up, but they won't. They have completely abdicated responsibility and do nothing but play to their constituents and shove pork into 1/year, giant omnibus bills and avoid any actual governing where they don't see a good return on the investment.

What we're left with is 2 branches the Executive and Judiciary to run the country which results in "legislating from the bench" and EOs.

The main problem with EOs is that you have 4-8 year swings that I think will become more dramatic going forward. Trump came in and bulldozed all of the Obama EOs then signed a bunch of his own EOs and he's getting the same treatment from Biden. The pendulum could start swinging out of control.

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Should have never allowed them to be expanded in the first place, but most here were fine with it happening, then.

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No one seems to understand that you should pass laws/govern assuming that you will eventually be turning over the government to your political opponents.