ten billion butterfly sneezes

The Tea Party ‘07 fundraiser for Ron Paul having come to an end, I’ve replaced the TP banner with one for downsizedc.org, an organization promoting the simple and not too outlandish premise that the U.S. Congress should actually read legislation prior to voting.

From the group’s mission statement:

We believe the federal government has grown too large, too intrusive, and too expensive. We believe in constitutional limits, small government, civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes.

I can’t disagree with that. The presidential candidates get a lot of press, and there’s a prevalent belief that the occupant of the White House controls our destiny. Actually, the president is an executive; he carries out the legislation passed by the Congress. This means that the president is nothing more than an errand boy for Congress; he derives no special powers simply by being president.

That’s at least how it’s supposed to work. Congress has ceded major authority to the executive branch by blindly passing laws to create executive bureaucracy after executive bureaucracy.

It’s time for a change; instead of caring about who occupies the White House, let’s focus attention on the Legislature.

It still can’t hurt to support Ron Paul.

-k-

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