Examples Of Congress Bashing

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Polsby had created a document concerning congress bashing. He was trying to talk about what the executive branch’s attitude was toward the United States congress throughout American history. He believed “congress bashing” was a selfish attempt by the executive branch to try and playout congress by using constitutional reforms.
Firstly, Congress bashing has been occurring for a century of longer. At first it was mostly the liberals that did the bashing. Recently conservatives have been complaining about it. Back then congress bashing was what people people tried or did when they controlled the presidency and not when the congress did.
Secondly, He had talked about many different things in his document that began to change congress such as,

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