Draining the bureaucratic swamp … courtesy of our progressive friends

Source: Conservative Review | December 18, 2016 | Nate Madden, Daniel Horowitz

A permanent statist presence in government even with a Republican in power

We’re nearly a month away from the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the hopeful fulfillment of the political promise to “drain the swamp” (i.e. to dredge away the muck of beltway corruptocrats and bureaucratic sludge). 

The widely presumed appeal of Trump was the chance for a dramatic and fresh change to give the American people a government with more accountability, and less control emanating from the unelected administrators. At least, that has been the sales pitch.

And there have been several means of drainage proposed over the past few weeks to include a longer “cooling off” period for prospective lobbyists, a federal hiring freeze, and a rule that would require two regulations be deleted for every one created, but one of the biggest means remains yet unnamed: dismantling an unconstitutional fourth branch of government operating right under our noses.

These are federal commissions (e.g. the Federal Elections Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and others) designed to operate independently of the three branches — and enumerated roles — of government.

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The problem: If they are not subject to the policies or personnel choices of the president, then they are not really part of the executive branch. But given that they are obviously not a part of the legislative and judicial branches either, how can they operate autonomously ? And how can they still wield powerful executive authority without oversight of the chief executive and his officers?

Rather than being independent and “above” politics, these commissions are largely unaccountable to the American people, and soak up powers and responsibilities from the branches of government that actually are.

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