IMO, it’s more like a complete lack of will to check this specific “POTUS.” There certainly wasn’t any lack of resources to investigate/hold to account the actions of the Executive Branch between 2011-2016.
Good piece by @leedrutman and @kevinrkosar on the need to strengthen Congress's oversight capacity. Since the 80s, Congress has cut its staff so much that it now lacks the ability to adequately check the executive branch and tackle modern policy challenges.https://nyti.ms/2N6buDp
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Congress also has bit by bit lost its understanding of its role in our tripartite system. Today, legislators tend to view themselves as either the party of a prez or the opposition to the prez, instead of the first branch. Thus, oversight and checks and balances often fail.
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And who’s going to check Congress? Right now they are a runaway train
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Runaway or running away? ;-)
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Since the Reagan days you say?
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Almost as if it were done on purpose...
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It's not a staff problem. It's an ethics problem. The GOP is unethical. It must be wiped out.
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So the solution is to make the Congressional machine bigger. Might go for it if we agree that none of the existing members or their staff get to stay.
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So, you'd prefer we fill Congress and the leg branch with thousands of smiling new faces, who know nothing about how to do oversight, pass laws, etc.? Or are you suggesting something different?
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