@farmerman,
What does ignorance on a subject mean? That's what I mean by blather. Worthless foam from the fingers. I don't know nothing about your system.
I know that the President is hamstrung by House and Senate, which are equals constitutionally but possibly not in practice, their committees, sub committees, conference committees, lobbyists, media, both with formal and informal connections to these committees and to the House and the Senate, and witnesses called before them; the folks back home from the boondocks where electricity is the work of Satan to the wine bars in Manhattan where it is thought that milk comes from a shop, and God knows what else in that seething maelstromic camp called Washington, and that he doesn't like it for the precise reason that that lot of diddicos are restricting his exercise of executive power which his temperamental obsession with doing drove him through many trials and tribulations to seek to do. And he gets the blame for everything not going right and that lot try to steal the credit when it does.
He is less hamstrung, but not by a lot, when his party has majorities in the House and Senate and can appoint chairmen of these committees who are thought sound guys but only if the pork barrels keep rolling in. Flip-flopping optional.
It's not really the point. The point is whether the extension of the power of the Executive Office, already of a formidable size, is necessary for America to compete in the future with well-oiled machines in other countries where executive power cuts the mustard and energy is exported.
And $16 trillion deficits are not cutting the mustard.
A bunch of blokes who look like Plato could have a good time on 16 trillion ******* greenbacks. Chickens do come home to roost they said in the old days when they usually did. They still do in a few places. I saw an American TV programme dangling temptations before the slightly sub-conscious nostalgia for the simple life from which the Dude Ranch idea derived, in which a lady of a certain age had to look around in the grass for the eggs her chickens had laid. One of the ads between which the programme was squeezed was for the latest thing in European motor vehicle technology displayed against a 5th Avenue backdrop Shakespeare would have reduced a tenant's rent for. Her homemade pies looked fantastic.
Foreign policy is completely dependent on the efficiency of the homeland. And that might or might not be achieved by the extension of executive power. I think it will. I don't think Spengler's Caesar will appear. I think he will evolve.
"Let's overturn these tables, disconnect these cables,
This place don't make sense to me no more.
Can you tell me what we're waiting for
Senor?"
I know a bit about your system and I'm learning more everyday. That's not ignorance. So pipe down with that **** and write us a post as good as that. Eh?