Toto has finally pulled the curtain back on the great and powerful Oz. What was once intentionally hidden from the public's eyes by our corrupt government is now being fully exposed for everyone to plainly see. And the widespread exposure is as jubilant for most as it is painful for the few who are getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
The Constitution of the United States of America outlines the separation of powers in an elaborate, yet relatively simple, set of checks and balances among three equal branches of government. Nowhere in our Constitution does it authorize the monstrous fourth branch of government that has grown so unwieldy and unmanageable in the last 100 years.
Article I plainly outlines the responsibility of the Legislative branch i.e. both houses of Congress. The House of Representatives and the Senate are clearly responsible for making the laws.
Article II describes in very straightforward terms the powers of the Executive branch i.e. those duties vested in the President. His major responsibility is the execution of the laws passed by Congress and the subsequent administration of all the offices, agencies and employees of that Executive branch; as well as being the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military.
Article III defines the oversight mission of the Judicial branch wherein the judges and courts, under the protective guidance of the Supreme Court, are charged with interpreting the laws that are passed by Congress and executed by the President. This branch is intended to provide legal guardrails that keep the power of the federal government from abuse and have it remain tightly held in the hands of We the People.
These three branches of government have successfully and efficiently functioned according to the Constitution for the past 250 years. The timeless genius of the Founders is evident in the way our three branches work together, while at the same time retaining their autonomy and still keeping a watchful eye on the others. It is a classic study of mutual dependence coupled with autonomous independence with all power derived from a free people; a feat never before accomplished in human history.
But over time as the country grew and prospered, an unconstitutional fourth branch of government with no direct authority from the people has slowly evolved in the form of a pervasive bureaucracy. Slowly but steadily, inch by inch federal agencies were established and filled with "experts" whose job it is to manage a gigantic government leviathan presiding over 330 million people. Eventually, these unelected bureaucrats became entrenched and were no longer accountable even to their elected representatives, much less to the people.
These well funded pinheads also served our elected officials as shields to insulate unscrupulous politicians from negative voter reaction, and eventually became the self-important, impregnable deep state labyrinth we see in the alphabet soup of Washington, D.C. federal agencies today. What started out as a democracy has devolved into a bureaucracy.
Now the task at hand, as approved by voters last November, is to unravel this bureaucratic octopus and free our country from its poisonous tentacles. This is job number one for the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency headed by the volunteer private citizen Elon Musk.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Colosseum where the people gathered to cheer this bureaucratic beast being destroyed. The assorted liberal progressive Democrat members of all three branches set up a phony self-serving defense line around the monster and are trying to prevent the good guy gladiators from accomplishing their public mandate.
They say politics makes strange bedfellows and as we watch power hungry Democrats in bed with tax wasting bureaucrats, we know that's true. Governments at all local, state and federal levels need to stop controlling our lives, stop their endless spending and start lowering our taxes. Government should be confined to filling potholes and keeping us safe. We the people have spoken and the curtain can never be put back.