The Joe Cook column entitled "Take the new water rule rhetoric with a grain of salt" is based on faulty logic. This false premise, which has been around since the birth of the progressive movement, holds that American society is too complex to be governed by the Constitution; therefore, unelected bureaucratic experts, with their seemingly insatiable desire for power, rules, and regulations, must intervene for the good of the rest of us. As a result, America has morphed from a government of the people, by the people, and for the people  to an Administrative State exercising power over the people for the "good of the people".

The 1972 Clean Water Act is but one example of government gone wild. With this law Congress, in a desperate effort to find a quick solution to a pressing national problem (nobody wanted dirty, polluted water -- one Ohio river was even declared a fire hazard!), unconstitutionally sub-delegated some of its law making power to the executive branch. Precedent for this had already been set in the New Deal and the Great Society.  

Senator Johnny Isakson and Representative Tom Graves have it right when they say we have a problem with an overreach by an Obama Administration that exceeds its authority. Congress should demand that the executive branch relinquish its illegal hold on legislative power. The Federal government should return to its Constitutional roots of three co-equal branches.