biggovernment.com — Seeing a bipartisan concern for unbridled expansion of presidential power and wishing to start restoring the office to its Constitutional limits, Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY) has introduced the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act. The REINS Act now has 57 cosponsors, including noted Constitutionalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX).
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Closed AccountJun 22, 2010
Dugg, Favorited, Tweeted, Facebooked and now waiting for a reply from my uber-liberal Mother in law :o
quactaurJun 22, 2010
It definitively is. You don't let people draft legislation to fulfil goal X when they have an agenda that differs. You can restrict the executive a hundred different ways, most of them with a partisan bias, so 'national security' executive overreach is okay, whereas 'progressive' overreach isn't. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
nosherJun 22, 2010
WTF is about this time of the day? Around this time every day, some wackjob Breitbart, or NRO, or WSJ editorial or Malkin crap makes it to the front page of Digg. Surely Eric Ericksen must get tired of all that thumbs-upping...
anillopJun 22, 2010
Kind of like how the Republican party only cared about excessive spending when the Democrats are in power.
billricardiJun 22, 2010
This sort of thing is best accomplished by a good president late in his 6th or early in his 7th year, before the new election cycles start up. If the president himself is the one calling for a scaleback on presidential power, and he's doing it before any potential replacements are nominated, then it's going to be taken seriously.The problem with a push from congress for executive oversight is simple: It will often come from the minority party. No sitting congress is going to sabatage their own party's president. So unless one party gets the majority in both the House and Senate, but loses the presidency, this is always going to fail without the help of the president himself.So the best hope for a bill such as this is that an enlightened president makes the push for it mid way through their last term. Anything else is just going to result in politics as usual.
s73v3rJun 22, 2010
And the people who are for this now will drop it as soon as the "other" party is in charge.