Congress yet again cedes more power to the Executive Branch

In this latest move by the Republican leaders in Washington on the debt ceiling negotiations, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came up with the brainy idea of allowing President Obama to have the authority on his own to raise the debt ceiling in case Congress can't get an agreement done in time. Besides the fact that he's catching heck now from his own party and the Right Wingers in it for doing this, it's also blatantly a cowardly way to not really handle the situation, on the part of Congress, but to flip it to the Executive Branch so their "fingerprints" are all over whatever happens, instead, so that opposing party can blame him, later, for what happens. It's pitiful. This is just more in a long line of instances where Congress cedes yet more power to the Executive Branch, then later they complain that the Executive in office, whoever it is at the time, has or takes too much power and doesn't give them enough to do. This is no way to run a government. Or a country. Link: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/mcconnell-proposal-gives-obama-power-to-increase-debt-limit/; http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/fury-mcconnell-outlines-plan-obama-raise-debt-ceiling-204213811.html;_ylt=ApuwJXpL67V2AY7D5dJ2s3T59XQA;_ylu=X3oDMTN1YmtsbGtkBGNjb2RlA3ZzaGFyZWFnMnVwcmVzdARwa2cDYTYwZGVhMmEtYTVkNS0zZTZkLWEwNTktNGMxMzZmMzc3YjY5BHBvcwM5BHNlYwNuZXdzX2Zvcl95b3UEdmVyA2VjYjYxOWYwLWFjZmYtMTFlMC1iZjdiLTMxZjFhNmJlN2QzZg--;_ylg=X3oDMTJyZjRvZHM5BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNDQyMjA3ODktNzQwNS0zNDJjLThiMWQtYmNkZjAwYTNhZmFmBHBzdGNhdANwb2xpdGljcwRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2U-;_ylv=3