Something is rotten in the state of congressional challenges to executive privilege. The time it takes to move a challenge through the federal courts makes any potential congressional victory either stale or irrelevant. By forcing a lawsuit, the president wins politically whether or not he wins legally. If they become available only after President Bush leaves office, testimony or documents from the likes of Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and Sara Taylor would be politically worthless. That explains why Congress has pursued only one reported suit in its history: the 1974 case Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities v. Nixon, (which in the end proved superfluous because another congressional committee had already obtained the sought-after tape).
http://www.slate.com/id/2170479/fr/flyout
I think the executive branch should have more power or at least maintain the power they have right now. The executive branch can not possibly dictate the country because of check and balances. The system checks and balances each branches' powers.
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Assumeing the president is not currupt you are right. Congress petty complaints really just keep the other branch from doing it's job properly.
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