I have been watching the House debate over the limit of Presidential Powers in the House Judiciary committee as a result of the impeachment article sets offered up by Representative Dennis Kucinich this spring and again this summer.
The crux of the discussion seems to founder around the concept of the power that Congress has to check the Executive Branch entirely with impeachment and no other measure. The problem is that all of the powers held by Congress can be trumped by an Executive Branch that hides behind executive privilege which has been hijacked more than one time over the last 40 years.
Executive privilege has become a massive wound on the American Constitution and not just a blemish acne cream like actions can be used to cure. It is a cancer causing problem that creates the need to remove a President from power that has become cancerously abusive of the power given him to protect the Constitution.
The House has no other authority to act outside of impeachment. That means the American people have no other protection from an abusive President rather than to have their representatives in Congress stand up and take the actions available to them as provided by the founders of our country.
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