In control as far as nothing gets done legislatively without their consent.
But the executive branch? The President has complete power to run that branch. He chooses not to. He does speeches, and he does legislation. This is the job description of a Senator, and I hope it’s a long time before we put another career legislator in the White House.
The worst part is that he doesn’t even seem to know that he’s supposed to be running the executive branch. He seems to think that it’s supposed to self-run somehow. What we’re seeing now is what happens when the President isn’t involved.
I think Tammy Duckworth said it best:
** I think he’s relied on Secretary Shinseki, but we could use his personal attention at this point.**
His personal attention should be there to begin with. Delegation is important for every leader, but the President has delegated everything but his political operation.
Are you speaking for yourself now, or are you still trying to speak on behalf of ‘the rest of the country’? If you mean it has been demonstrated to you personally, then you are qualified to state that. You are not, however, qualified to state this as a fact which everyone agrees upon across the country.
Your partially right though, listening to your ideas is a good idea … if your looking for the opposite of reality. If a person chose to do and think everything exactly opposite from you, they’d probably do pretty well for themselves.
More drivel. But sure, let’s play along for laughs – find some cites that “a lot of Dopers don’t think he has to run the executive branch, and is certainly not responsible for it”.
There is a lot in there – first you have to find “a lot of Dopers”, then find their posts that show that he doesn’t think he has to run the executive branch, and that he’s not responsible for it.
Please, find this. I’d love to see you try, and laugh at you in the pathetic attempt.
Or just give up, and admit that you routinely make wild claims that you can’t possibly support, and you always move on to something else after someone calls you on it.
Responses to a couple of total bullshit lies adaher has been harping on:
When did a President say he didn’t know about a scandal? Iran Fucking Contra, which was 1,000 times worse than anything you’ve seen Obama do, you overgrown single-cell organism.
What has Obama been spending so much money on between 2009 and today? The fucking VA budget has increased by 75% in that time. Are you complaining about that? Should that be cut, too?
And EMBASSY SECURITY is not part of a bloated DOMESTIC budget, you incompetent imbecile. It is part of the FOREIGN budget, of course. But understanding that requires having a modest command of facts and a smidge of reason.
Continue with your stupidity, as you are wont to do.
For the record, here are the factually false claims and statements of adaher just over the past few hours (that I can find in a few minutes):
He falsely states that “There is no right to vote in the Constitution.”
He falsely states that other rights in the Constitution cannot be regulated, and are therefore somehow superior to the right to vote (which he previously denied as existing in the Constitution).
He falsely states that there is no difference in positions between the Tea Party and establishment Republicans.
He falsely statesthat Obama is the only President since Reagan who has claimed ignorance of wrongdoing/mismanagement/etc. multiple times as a defense against criticism.
We’re in agreement on virtually nothing. Anything that we happen to agree on immediately becomes suspect to me, due to your history of recurring and unrepentant factual wrongness.
Thus my “we haven’t seen this sort of thing since Reagan’s senile years” statement.
And the money didn’t help much, did it? Showing that funding and performance do not tend to be related when we’re talking about government. Have our schools gotten better with the massive increase in funding they’ve seen over the last few decades? Spending=results only when there is accountability. The federal government does not practice accountability, in fact it creates systems to make sure accountability can never happen.
I saw my mistake and chose not to edit it. What I should have said was “discretionary” spending. Why didn’t I change it? Because I don’t give a rat’s ass. Harping on little errors like that is no different from people who try to refute your argument by criticizing your spelling and grammar. It’s cheap, absurd, immature, and reflects badly on the intelligence of the person utilizing that tactic.
Meanwhile, this is the same poster who says Obama didn’t lie when he promised you could keep your insurance.
Like I said, an admission that the President of the United State is held to lower standards of truthfulness than an SDMB poster. Why would anyone who thinks that little of our President ever vote Democrat?
A feeble but amusing attempt at a riposte – I point out your factual errors, you point out a disagreement (uncited, and not including the entire context, not surprisingly) on a matter of opinion.
You do not concede that our differences of opinion are anything other than absolute lies on my part. Whereas the President says many things which are provably untrue, and you interpret his words in the most generous sense possible.
Face it, you do hold me to a higher standard than the PResident you support, and I’m honored by that.
Logic fail. Par for the course. Go ahead and cite the claims from the President and Majority Leader, but even if you have them, it still does not compute to support for open borders. No, they do not support open borders. Nuance exists, Mr. Hannity.
I don’t think you’re lying – I think you genuinely believe these factual errors.
Another false claim from adaher!
Oh, he’s lied – I’m very confident that he’s told lies. Probably dozens – maybe hundreds. You’re just usually wrong about which statements of his are lies. And discussions about “lies” imply knowledge of motives, which I usually try to avoid.
Another logic fail, but if you want to feel better about yourself, then go right ahead.
I’ll explain it if you can show some cites that the President and the Majority Leader ‘oppose deportation’.
Note that you said “call for an end to deportation”, not “call for an end to some deportations”. I know they oppose some deportations. But opposing deportation – which means all deportation? I’d love to see a cite for that.