Because a phone and pen from 2009-2016 is now old and busted
Americans overwhelmingly support checks and balances. That should be the focus of the midterms for Democrats. https://t.co/qkvEp9WeQs
— Vox (@voxdotcom) July 22, 2018
From the screed
Democrats have a new slogan for the midterms: “For the People.â€
I hate it. It’s one of those slogans that tries to mean everything and therefore means nothing. Sort of like the previous slogan, “A Better Deal†— another meaningless cliché that apparently proved inadequate to the task.
I’ve got a better one: “Support Checks and Balances. Elect Democratsâ€
After all, you can turn on any news channel and witness the charade. Republicans in Congress are bending over backward and upside down and sideways to figure out how to excuse away the inexcusable — siding with a foreign enemy when all intelligence experts are screaming that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and plans to again in the 2018 election.
This is from the same party which supported Obama doing everything via the ever expanding powers of the Executive Office. Who signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran Deal in a manner that precluded the Senate from having to vote on them. Who rammed through things like the Waters Of The US, Clean Power Plan, forcing schools to accommodate the gender confused mental cases, and so much more. Suddenly, Democrats do not like POTUS to have power, even when it is within their Constitutional duties, rather than mission creep. And they sure do not like Trump getting rid of the garbage Obama manufactured.
American democracy is a separation-of-powers system, in which Congress and the presidency are independent branches, but Congress has many more powers. The problem with separation of powers in practice is that it only works with divided government. The framers thought that by spreading power across independent branches of government, they would make it hard for parties to form, and institutional allegiances would triumph and balance each other. They were wrong.
Where was Vox and the Democrats when Obama was president and the GOP controlled Congress?
