Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Da Wiz Does Have a Point
beside the hat hood
It’s rather a rearranging the order of the deck chairs on the Titanic kind of point - but a point nonetheless.
“Too often, I have seen these lines of authority and responsibility become tangled and blurred, sometimes purposely, to shield information and to obscure the decision-making process,” wrote [Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)], the self-described “constitutional conscience of the Senate.”
Byrd specifically noted the creation of three new White House bodies—the offices of Health Reform, Urban Affairs Policy, and Energy and Climate Change Policy—and complained that “the rapid and easy accumulation of power by White House staff can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances. At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials."
Not to mention the grabbing of the Census…
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