Yeah, it is a shame they decide to make a president look bad. What is so appalling is that it was so damn easy, he really needed no help at all.
The members of the so far fictional tea party need to shit or get off the pot. They pretend to be a party but are nothing but fleas on a dog called the republican party. Until they become separate with their own primary and candidates, and vote accordingly, they're republicans and nothing else.
Who is this "he" you're referring to? Presidents have been comic and talk show host fodder since I was born in the early 1950's ..that hasn't changed one bit but this lame duck Congress is the worst in American history, bar none!
Well, they're supposed to work for us and they didn't..for a term and a half I define them as a do nothing, lame duck congress that has made Congress a place for not much but an extended election campaign and a failed one at that. Splintered, uncompromising and blatantly lazy Congress we've had for some time now. There, I've vented...lame duck..you can research that definition if you like.
Bill Clinton got stuff passed through both houses of Congress, though both were controlled by republicans. They weren't just out to defeat Clinton at every turn, they impeached him. I see no point in making excuses for Obama's ineffective leadership.
"Lame duck" describes a politician who has been defeated for reelection or chosen not to run for reelection, but is finishing his term (still in office). In theory, a "lame duck" should truly vote his or her conscience, since there's nothing to fear from the voters or party.
Basically, it appears Obama is going to just create laws he feels are necessary via EO, and then let the courts hash them out. We may as well just have a king or dictator.
You can't lead if you mistrust your followers. Snowden's overwhelming proof of a treasonous shadow government would have already brought a media outcry for impeachment of any caucasian president. Let's see how color blind they really are.
There was a big stink about the Carnivore and Echelon programs. It was started by Clinton, who is still Caucasian to this very day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software) Carnivore, later renamed DCS1000, was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that can monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented in October 1997. October 1997 would be Clinton running the executive branch.
I heard it wasn't his most ambitious speech, and i heard he was gonna try to do more and more stuff without congressional influence. I didn't watch it either. Family Guy is too much of a distraction for me.
I watched every second of the SOTU. It's a tradition that needs to end. Jefferson had it right and Wilson had it wrong. There were several bad moments for me. MyRa, the inaccurate statistics regarding employment and enrollment in Obamacare, etc. The worst, however, was President Obama stating before Congress that he was going to try to circumvent their role in government, then to have all the Democratic Congresspeople give him a standing ovation. Sickening. If they support his policies, they should do everything they can to forward them in Congress; they shouldn't desire to have their role--given to them in our Constitution--taken away.
