Posted on 09/01/2009 11:41:54 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
President Obama's "leadership" style is more like plausible deniable. He doesn't like to get involved with crafting the parameters of legislation, that way he believes that congress, rather than the White House, will be able to take the blame. That's why he let Nancy Pelosi write the Pokulus and Cap and trade bills, it is also what he did with Eric Holder with the CIA investigation. Make no mistake, they are following his broad direction but no particulars.
Before you go off and say that's how things work, this is how Bob Dole described working with Ronald Reagan on his major legislation:
In my case, Reagan would sent it to me, and I would introduce it for the president. It was the president's bill, the president's language. He is the top dog.
And this is probably about the most important domestic legislation that Obama will deal with in the first four years. He is hoping for four more, but in the first four. And he ought to be proud of it. And it ought to be the Obama bill.
Even some Democrats have complained that the President should show more leadership, and get his hands dirty in writing the Health Care bill. It looks as if those Democrats are going to get that wish.
Reports are filtering through that the POTUS going to start getting more involved:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
And Idiot Micheal Steele will probably help. Obama will probably use ideas from Steele’s senior bill of rights BS, to try to convince people that he is protecting them.
If so, it's only because of extreme pressure.....it's been very obvious that he wanted this job for two reasons, and two reasons only: Ego and the 'trappings'.
And his poll numbers will proceed to tank even faster, in direct proportion to the amount of specificity he provides. Uh oh.
so this is the situation we find. A succession of [] Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they never really notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them, who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to, can be allowed to?
-Douglas Adams, H2G2
Hey Barack,
Keep your laws off my BODY!
Bound to fail...
Do you still have a link to those letters written from Germany during the Hitler reich?
Has obama ever done anything himself, in his entire career? TOTUS might have a chance, but POTUS is bound to get sidetracked by “cops behaving stupidly” or other distractions.
What with all the TV time, Obama doesn’t have the time to work out a “bill”. This is, just like the House and Senate bills, being done behind the scenes. Rahm and his brother are just re-working the “wording” to sound better. The wording may change, the philosophy does not!!! It will still end up being a welfare bill, NOT a health care bill.
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