Posted on 01/19/2016 1:59:27 PM PST by PROCON
Last week, President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address. In the lead-up to the speech, there was a lot of discussion about the nature of the president's legacy. Less discussed, however, was that most of the president's so-called legacy may not outlast his presidency, since most of his supposed achievements have never been enacted into law.
Early on in his presidency, it became clear that the president didn't have much interest in working with Congress in a bipartisan manner, and after losing large majorities in the House and Senate, he made it clear that he did not want to listen to the American people, who had overwhelmingly rejected his far-left agenda. His determination to circumvent Congress and ignore the American people has not only been an affront to the democratic process and an attack on the balance of power our Founding Fathers envisioned, it has also failed as a strategy for securing long-lasting achievements.
As a result of his contempt for Congress and his unwillingness to engage with the legislative process, the vast majority of the items that make up the president's "legacy" - including the national energy tax, executive amnesty, and the flawed Iran deal - are not actual laws. Instead, the president's legacy is largely made up of regulations, executive actions, and executive agreements, most of which can be easily overturned by the next administration.
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He’s like a snail...leaving a trail of slime wherever he goes.
His legacy is that he was the first person launched into the presidency of the US as a set-up vehicle for the hoped for destruction of the U.S, the U.K. France, Israel, Libya, Egypt, and the list goes on and for the ascendency of Islamic Jihad. The cadre even got NYC lawyer for Malcolm X, Percy Sutton to contact Harvard Law to get him in. Sutton had also been Manhattan Borough President. The man should have been dragged off in chains in year one. The media hid what they knew at the time they should have reported what they knew. Useful idiots voted for a hate-monger who sat at the feet of all variety of hate-mongers. His complexion was different and that’s all that counted to the dimwits.
When referring to Obama’s agenda why do they continue to call it ‘far left’ when it is communism pure and simple?
Obama has overtaken Jimmy Carter’s legacy.
Jimmy’s folks weren’t as smart as Baraq’s.
He didn’t realize he could buy the re-election with entitlements, no matter how bad the economy or foreign policy was.
Yeah, but they showed us - they got the First Black President elected in spite of how racist we all are. /s
Everybody’s insurance does that. Every time any doc gives me a new scrip I come home and check my insurance formulary before I go to the pharmacy. I’ve had to have the doc change quite a few for one reason or another.
I’ve also use coupons off goers.com because it was cheaper than through my insurance. Did one just the other day.
Oops. That should have been goodrx.com
Inexcusable. And, he had all (well...most of them) the professional Republican politicians assisting him in every way possible too...shame /s
It was doomed from the start
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