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Originally Posted by theking
I don't know what you think his agenda is...maybe you will specify...but ultimately the agenda of all Presidents is to do what they percieve is best for the country...and no matter what they do there will be tens of millions of people that are not pleased with his actions.
The Presidency does not have alot of domestic powers...the biggest domestic power a President has is the "bully pulpit/talk"...the Congress controls the purse strings and only the Congress can make law. The second biggest domestic power that a President has is the power to veto whatever Congress presents to him...but of course Congress has the power to override the veto.
Presidents are always the scapegoat for whatever goes badly and usually given little credit for whatever may go well.
BTW...President Clinton...after the Republicans took control of Congress...was called the best Republican President of all times...even though the Republicans had their way with him they were still critical of him as he was still a Democrat...but in name only.
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I know that the president has little power, just why I don't blame all the recession on Bush, we've had a dem lead house and senate since 06, when did things go to shit?
OK, think of it this way, for 1 year Obama had ultimate power, he had a democratic house and senate. Did he improve the economy, no, unemployment rate, no. He spent the whole time on something that will cost us too much. We now have government controlled mortgage market, car makers, health care and now the banks. The government has grown by 25% in 18 months. Of course Obamanation says we are headed in the right direction, I just don't see it.
And Clinton's popularity went up
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that