I have said it before, and will say it again and again and again.
We have to take away the rule making abilities from federal agencies. It is INSANE that those administrating or enforcing are also creating "laws". They aren't congress, and they are unelected and unaccountable. Its the reason we have the problems we have. IMHO, the ATF should even exist let alone make "laws" they will be enforcing. Congress is and should be the only law and rule writing part of government. Its laziness on the part of congress and federal agencies are taking advantage of it.
Yes, they've parcelled off their authority to the executive as well as the agencies under executive control, and then they wonder why these bureaucrats feel they don't have to answer to congress...
This level of perversion can only be attained if we are in fact in the latter stages of national decay.
There is only one option left, and it is the option the E-GOP has the least stomach for, because it means taking a stand...ending the funding, and let the cries of government shutdown be damned!
The E-GOP still behaves as if the Democrat-Media Complex will play nice with them, only if they behave and play ball with Democrats...by "play ball" it means cave in and give them what they want. And they do cave in, every time, without fail. And what is their reward? No better treatment by the D-MC and people once the core of the GOP leaving in droves. Still, they view the problem is with the intransigent (principled) conservatives, not the pragmatic (unprincipled) establishment types. Anybody see that dynamic changing anytime soon? While the Democrats of old had hardcore progressive leftists comprising a minority that eventually grew in power and appetite to the point where we are now where their party is 99.99% hardcore progressive leftists, the natural response of the GOP was to not check that by being more conservative (apart from the Reagan Revolution which they saw as an abomination and quickly subverted it as soon as he was gone), no, they saw an opportunity to be better managers of big government as being the key differentiation with the Democrats...and their delusion is such that they did not view this as a bad thing...but the people do...when picking full-big govt or partial big govt, people more often than not go for the full, and the conservative GOP has fled in mass migrations...yet the E-GOP have not changed one iota.
So, in the end there is only one way to cut the funding. Great masses of people have to rise up and say eff this noise, no more, we are no longer going to work, no longer paying taxes, no longer listening to your pathetic excuses for not doing your constitutional duty, so to Hell with you all, we're crashing this sh*t and starting over.
But it will crash on its own weight, I seriously doubt I'll see the mass uprising that is so perfectly necessary.
So, continue to expect the worst and don't feel bad about being made into a criminal...the likes of these asshats...calling other people criminals? Yeah, we're at the point where that isn't the insult these fools think it is!!!