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Does the US President have too much power?
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:41 am
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:41 am
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Judge Napolitano thinks so. My question is where was this idiot when Obama was shredding the US Constitution in his 8 years as reigning as our Kenyan Born King?
Judge Napolitano thinks so. My question is where was this idiot when Obama was shredding the US Constitution in his 8 years as reigning as our Kenyan Born King?
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:42 am to Parmen
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He doesn't have enough.
beg for a king, boy.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:45 am to HAIR
Nobody seems to care unless it's a President on the opposite side.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:45 am to HAIR
Everyone and everything associated with DC has too much power
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:45 am to 9th life
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beg for a king, boy.
A king would be much better, and likely less powerful.
I am reminded of a quote from Tolkien in his letters:
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My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) – or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. If people were in the habit of referring to ‘King George’s council, Winston and his gang’, it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy. Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. And at least it is done only to a small group of men who know who their master is. The mediævals were only too right in taking nolo efiscopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers. And so on down the line. But, of course, the fatal weakness of all that – after all only the fatal weakness of all good natural things in a bad corrupt unnatural world – is that it works and has worked only when all the world is messing along in the same good old inefficient human way. The quarrelsome, conceited Greeks managed to pull it off against Xerxes; but the abominable chemists and engineers have put such a power into Xerxes’ hands, and all ant-communities, that decent folk don’t seem to have a chance. We are all trying to do the Alexander-touch – and, as history teaches, that orientalized Alexander and all his generals. The poor boob fancied (or liked people to fancy) he was the son of Dionysus, and died of drink. The Greece that was worth saving from Persia perished anyway; and became a kind of Vichy-Hellas, or Fighting-Hellas (which did not fight), talking about Hellenic honour and culture and thriving on the sale of the early equivalent of dirty postcards. But the special horror of the present world is that the whole damned thing is in one bag. There is nowhere to fly to. Even the unlucky little Samoyedes, I suspect, have tinned food and the village loudspeaker telling Stalin’s bed-time stories about Democracy and the wicked Fascists who eat babies and steal sledge-dogs. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:46 am to 9th life
The president has had to much power since Lincoln. There is no way for the other branches to effectively check the executive and the 4th branch (executive agencies) is just as powerful as the other 2. Congress has given its authority to the executive slowly over the last 150 years.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:47 am to HAIR
Blame Congress for voluntarily giving up their power and being too lazy to do anything when presidents have taken more power.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:47 am to HAIR
I suppose it depends on your political party and the President’s, doesn’t it? Just being honest... I absolutely wish Trump had more power. Absolutely relieved Obama did not.
Which is why an originalist Judiciary is so absolutely critical... and why an activist liberal Judiciary must be gutted and destroyed.
What we are also seeing, sadly, is a feckless legislative branch that does nothing and pushes all controversial decisions to the executive and judiciary branches. If you really want to fix the problems with this country we need a Congress with balls that can negotiate.
Which is why an originalist Judiciary is so absolutely critical... and why an activist liberal Judiciary must be gutted and destroyed.
What we are also seeing, sadly, is a feckless legislative branch that does nothing and pushes all controversial decisions to the executive and judiciary branches. If you really want to fix the problems with this country we need a Congress with balls that can negotiate.
This post was edited on 9/5/19 at 7:51 am
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:47 am to HAIR
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Does the US President have too much power?
No. But the American people are too stupid to hold congress accountable for anything so we keep electing the same fricking idiots and then blaming all our problems on the president.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:50 am to HAIR
Wrong question....Does DC/FedGov have too much power?
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:50 am to Nguyener
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No. But the American people are too stupid to hold congress accountable for anything so we keep electing the same fricking idiots and then blaming all our problems on the president.
Awesome! and correct.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:51 am to HempHead
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A king would be much better, and likely less powerful.
this is a dumb statement. I make them sometimes too. think of the context of politics, your stated beliefs and then contrast them with this gibberish you just wrote, trying to pin it onto a more accomplished thinkers coattails.
cmon man.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:58 am to saints5021
I dont disagree.
I give a lot of thought to the discussion around here on repealing the amendment (17th is it?) and return to the wisdom of how senators were originally selected. How we currently elect our Senators, makes senators beholden to the same voters as the president, effectively taking away that check that congress has over the executive.
Returning the power to the state governments redistributes the interests of the senators weighted more towards the states' interests rather than the political interests of the senators.
I give a lot of thought to the discussion around here on repealing the amendment (17th is it?) and return to the wisdom of how senators were originally selected. How we currently elect our Senators, makes senators beholden to the same voters as the president, effectively taking away that check that congress has over the executive.
Returning the power to the state governments redistributes the interests of the senators weighted more towards the states' interests rather than the political interests of the senators.
This post was edited on 9/5/19 at 8:00 am
Posted on 9/5/19 at 7:59 am to Brosef Stalin
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Blame Congress for voluntarily giving up their power and being too lazy to do anything when presidents have taken more power.
I think a spineless, lame yet personally profitable Congress is the worst part.
Are there any examples in recent history of Congress attempting to override/invalidate an EO with actual action?
Posted on 9/5/19 at 8:00 am to Parmen
It's amazing that there's about 330 million people in the United States and yet there's only 2 major opinions one could hold: Democrat or Republican. The answer to this question will greatly vary depending on which of only 2 "unofficial" opinions one person holds as well as which of the 2 "unofficial" opinions the President happens to hold at the given time. It's also amazing that far too few people think that this statement is a fatal problem for the United States. Far too few.
Posted on 9/5/19 at 8:02 am to HAIR
This is all bullshite.
The President only has too much power if you disagree with his policies.
Trump has no more or no less power than any president that came before him.
If anything had changed it's the people of this country have become whinny little bitches.
The President only has too much power if you disagree with his policies.
Trump has no more or no less power than any president that came before him.
If anything had changed it's the people of this country have become whinny little bitches.
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