Basic Concept of Oversight

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7-31-2025

Basic Concept of Oversight

Would you allow someone into your momma’s kitchen to “inspect” her food preparation skills?

How about allowing government into your bedroom to determine “appropriate” behavior?

Making it more personal, doing your business on the toilet and a government “inspector” pops in to insure you’re using the “proper” amount of toilet paper and the “proper” amount of water during the flush, would you simply sit there and take it?

I didn’t think so.

Nobody disputes that Congress has the authority to perform oversight of the Executive Branch. However it is the manner in which members of Congress choose to perform that oversight that appears questionable (to say the least). There are normal procedures to be followed like scheduling an oversight visit and then conducting the legitimate oversight inspection professionally.

In the news are the failed attempts of House Democrats to force their way into I.C.E. facilities across the nation. They show up demanding to be let in because they are members of congress. Then they block the entrance and remain there until forced to leave, automatically doing a press conference to show the world how foolish they have become.

I have a solution, let House Democrats “experience” for full effect the process of detention starting with an individual “strip search” and change into prison clothes, fingerprinting, and the mug shot before being held in their own cell for 12 hours. That would give them a “birds eye view” of what actually happens to each and every person brought into the facility.

I have visited a number of prison facilities and I can assure you that once those gates shut behind you there is no other feeling of helplessness like hearing the locks click. The one thing you don’t do in prison is “demand” anything, that can lead to solitary confinement.

I’m sure that one experience would be enough. – RTM