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> Congress has no ability to really intervene and monitor what's happening because these aren't really accountable public officials.

Congress gets to make laws. They can intervene by making a law that allows them to intervene, which is the job we elected them to do. Apparently they prefer getting bossed around instead.



The majority of the currently elected Congress supports this – it is part of the mandate for which they were elected.


Unfortunately, laws have to be signed in by the president


Not with a two-thirds majority--which I realize sounds to the modern ear as politically impossible, but we're going to have to change that if we want to survive as a nation. The whole "living document" aspect of the constitution is a rather important one.

I don't even have much to say about which sorts of decisions that two thirds should make--that's their job--I'd just like it if they grew a spine and started making some.




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