Neil Cavuto's Most Excellent Tantrum

Neil’s recent on-air rant has been all over the conservative and libertarian blogosphere.  We don’t like  to be duplicative, but we enjoyed it so much we feel we have to post it, as well.

Please note  that the crux of the argument between Neil and his “guest,” Alan Grayson, is that Grayson could not articulate limits to the power to cap private salaries that his legislation proposes.  Instead, Grayson explained that the legislation merely delegates such discretion to the Treasury Secretary, who will later determine such minor details in his infinite wisdom.

Neil *should* be frustrated.  The doctrine of separation of powers underlying our constitution makes clear that only the elected members of the legislative branch could make new laws.  The idea was that elected members would be accountable at the ballot box, but the Secretary of Treasury isn’t elected and therefore not directly accountable to the body politic.  Here, Cavuto couldn’t even get the legislation’s sponsor to take responsibility for generally articulating who might be impacted  by the legislation before the sponsor punted to the administrative agency.  Grayson wanted credit only for the populist sentiment, any form of particulars about outcomes or means aren’t his responsibility at all.  In Grayson’s own words, “That’s ridiculous!”