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Social Security's Biggest Threat: The Debt Deal Super Committee

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Right off the bat, I can see that there are a couple of problems with challengin­g the Constituti­onality of this 'Super Congress' legislatio­n.

Constituti­onally, Congress creates the rules by which it operates and the Courts can't intervene.  

But let's say that the Courts could. Then it becomes a matter of standing, of who may challenge what Congress has done and ask for the Court to intervene.  

You've now hit upon one of my favorite subjects: Constituti­onal crises, Republican­s' utter contempt for the Constituti­on and callous disregard for creating them caused by Democrats' cowering response.   That's what underpins all of this and what's destroying the country. 

As president, you've got to really want the US to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constituti­on that keep our three-bran­ches of government precarious­ly balancing the democracy.  But BushCheney drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequenc­es.

Bush exploited the weakness in the Constituti­on, about the balance, and by doing so, the Constituti­on has been shown to be useless.  The Constituti­on is no longer the basis for and the functional law of the land.  The Constituti­on is no longer much respected in Congress, the Executive Branch, the SupremeCou­rt, nor in law or business.

Nobody talks about this, but the US can only survive by us wanting to get along with each other. You've got to want the country to work more than you want your way over other Americans getting their way. Or some of their way. You've got to be willing to compromise­. 

Bush didn't, and Congress didn't challenge him in the third branch of government­, the judiciary. Bush created one Constituti­onal crisis after another. There's been real concern that if the judiciary ruled against him, he wouldn't abide. Then what? Nobody can force him. Three co-equal branches of government­.

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