Dear Editor:
John Gloor's letter ("Elect a Congress to rein in President," (Sept. 9-10 MD/TJ) makes a good point regarding Congressional nonfeasance while incorporating some of the weaknesses of Susan Kivikko's letter.
Anyone who lived through the ethical sleaze of the Clintons, both Hill and Bill, or the influence peddling of the Biden crime family would find laughable the contention that they were "far more honorable" than President Trump. This judgment can be dismissed as partisan rationalization in a mid-term campaign.
The founding fathers may well "have been appalled by the failure of the legislative branch to defend" its prerogatives, but contra Mr. Gloor's implication, this is not new to the last decade. Arguably the worst dereliction of Congressional responsibility lies in its penchant for passing sweeping but vaguely written bills and deferring interpretation and implementation to an unelected bureaucracy of regulatory agencies (the so-called swamp).
While Democrats decry the failure of the legislature to rein in the executive branch on matters of "spending, tariffs and making war," they are mute on the failure of Congress to pass clearly written laws on energy policy, the...