First Entry... a Teaser

A Tease for the Interested...



The main problem with our current political reality is quite simple. The branches of our government are no longer serving the purposes for which they were designed. Rather than congress acting as a check on the powers of the executive, or the courts acting as a check on the legislative branch, we have the Republican Party, who in 1994 decided to reshape the role of the Congress.



With the Republican Revolution of 1994, the House and the Senate no longer acted as the constitutional check envisioned. Instead, the Republican Party declared all out war on the Democratic Party. At the time, the focus of this animosity was Bill Clinton. The idea was to take out the most popular Democrat in the country and replace him with a Republican. Through various tactics, they succeeded.



The Republican Party then shifted from a strategy of power-grabbing to power holding. Hold on to power regardless of the consequences.



The role of the congress was to make law, for the good of the people, faithfully fulfilling their responsibilities of representation to their constituents.



No longer. Now the barrier between the Executive and the Legislative branches is meaningless. Rather than act as a check on the President and his administration's foolish and failed policies, they gleefully point out that they are in control. Members of the party who rightfully have reservations about the President's actions are controlled and muzzled.



In the name of The Party, the Republicans in the House and Senate have turned our sacred institution of wisdom and legislation into nothing more than a bully pulpit from which the President and his advisors can vicariously push a radical agenda without fear of being challenged.



Without that challenge, democracy is dead.



In the coming days and weeks I will be expounding upon this idea and what it means for the future of this country.



-The Oklahoma Hippy