Battered Congress Syndrome

[Wizard777]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/24/BL2008062400869.html">Battered Congress Syndrome

President Bush doesn't hesitate to kick Congress around, but Congress just can't bring itself to kick back.

During oral arguments yesterday about whether a federal judge should enforce congressional subpoenas against a belligerent White House, representatives of the judicial and executive branches both noted that Congress hasn't exercised its full constitutional powers.

As Del Quentin Weber writes in The Washington Post, District Court Judge John D. Bates suggested that "the House could take other actions to compel the testimony. For example, the judge said, the House could order Miers's arrest and detention in a cell in the Capitol until she agreed to testify. Such actions were fairly common in the 19th century."

It functions just like battered Spouse Syndrome. This could explain why Congress will not seek to end our abusive relationship with President Bush by seeking a divorce, er um, Impeachment.

[Cleita]

1. I think it's because, with a few exceptions, most of Congress is as corrupt

as his administration. I wish states could have more oversight of the federal government, like conducting investigations if Congress won't or can't.