Why Congress Matters

[angrychair]

The House has found time to hold countless hearings and make a pointless vote to repeal the ACA 63 times.

Hold 8 different investigations on an embassy attack, despite the previous 2...3...5...7 finding no criminal intent or otherwise. New hearings are starting...the cost is $8.4 million dollars and counting.
There have been more congressional investigations, information requested and received and documentation has been amassed than all previous embassy attacks in US history, 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing combined.

Sitting members of congress have spent more time questioning where the president was born than they have on how to improve job training and education in our country.

The last two Republican controlled Congresses have had some of the fewest work days and been the least productive in modern history.

The Senate, under Republican control, has failed to do its Constitutionally-mandated duty to vote on the president's nominee for USSC. Need to read the whole Constitution. The Constitution is more than the 2nd amendment.

You can argue Congress is broken but Republicans bear a lot of that blame.

(For our republican or Libertarian lurkers and trolls):
Remember that when you vote for that republican incumbent that says they believes in "smaller government" and has drawn a government check for the last 25+ years.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. "bear"...

[angrychair]

2. Duh

Thanks!

[Wounded Bear]

3. One of those that spell check won't catch...nt

[BlueCaliDem]

4. I've been saying it, and I'll keep saying it - Congress, not the Presidency, is the most powerful

branch of the U.S. Gov't. People tend to forget that, believing in some way that the presidency is the "most powerful seat" in our gov't.

I lay most of the blame our failing M$M for this. M$M have done a great job conflating "most powerful man in the world" with "most powerful branch in the U.S." - and they've done a good job propagating that lie since even young Bernie Sanders supporters believed that the president is a dictator in terms of power.

But it's CONGRESS, not the White House, that has awesome powers. Congress sets domestic policy and can curtail the president. All the ills we suffer - and what Republicans whine about during their campaigning - can be traced back to Congress' failures under Republican control. They have blocked Democrats from getting good policy through and besmirched a good Democrat's reputation with lies and innuendo, helped in no small part by our skewed M$M. Republicans have the power in Congress since 2010, and they've shown they're not afraid to abuse it.

It's important that all Americans who actually believe that jobs, health care, education, the environment, etc., are more important than asserting racism, hating a Black man in the White House, hating a strong woman in the White House, hating 'the other' skin-hued people, the LGBT community, and foreign cultures. There are more of us than there are of them. Problem is, too many people on our side still believe that the president has the powers of a dictator and that Congress should be absolved of any and all blame.

The nutters on the other side are surprisingly well aware that Congress is vitally important in order to get their nationalists agenda through.

We need that kind of awakening on our side and we need to be ready and enthusiastic to vote each and every year.