"Yes, special interests corporate interests have gotten very good at gaming that system But I will say What's supposed to be a check against that is that? Congress is supposed to continually assert itself if Congress passes a law saying the the government will do X Y and Z and special interests Short-circuit that the execution of that Congress can come back and pass a more explicit a more specific a more a precise Version of that law, but but we don't what we're talking about is almost an abstraction at this point Because Congress really you were right at the be at the very beginning of this Congress Doesn't seem very interested in asserting itself. And then I think that then you The ultimate question comes up. Well, why? Why would Congress not want to assert itself? Well, let's let's go back to the example of war which I think is a really important one. Why would Congress Not want to assert itself in deck look in declaring war or stopping a war And I have come to the my view on this is is that is that ultimately? votes for or against war are our tough votes Votes that are often held against members of Congress when they go for reelection In the future in the next election or elections, you know elections far into the future I mean we're look we're talking right now the Iraq war vote as an example is a major Dispute point in one of the most important Senate races in America the the main US Senate race Okay So these votes are are tough votes and politicians know that you know I may vote for a popular war now and it may end up being unpopular later And that may that may become a campaign issue so all of that is to say is that what I think is going on here in part is that Congress doesn't want to assert its power on a situation like war Because members of Congress don't want to have to go on record with a vote that can be held against them I think that's really where we're at that the that it's politically Convenient to not assert power to let the other branch assert power and I think That has created a dangerous situation certainly when it comes to to something like war But I think it's essentially what I'm getting at is political cowardice You have people who are in these offices who who are in offices of power But they don't actually want to use power in ways that might be inconvenient to them"