It's amazing. People build up in their heads this fantasy of how their preferred candidate is going to have all these magical powers, but they don't actually pay enough attention to try to understand the mechanics of how the power actually works.
A lot of people seem to think that "executive orders" can pretty much do anything, but they can't. They are limited in their effect, which is why Presidents still push for legislation. Even Obama is finding out that some of his executive orders don't have the power he thought they did.
>> People build up in their heads this fantasy of how their preferred candidate is going to have all these magical powers, but they don’t actually pay enough attention to try to understand the mechanics of how the power actually works.
Oh, but surely you saw that movie, “300”.
There are approximately 300 in the Free Republic Trump Echo Chamber.
Coincidence? I think not!
By sheer dint of their awesome will, the FR Trumpeters can not only correctly prophesy ALL motives and ALL outcomes in this election cycle, but also bend logic, facts, and rules to ensure their prophecies are fulfilled!
It’s truly amazing when you think about it. Don’t think too hard though. :-)
Well said. There is also the fantasy about how you can drive away all your potential supporters and still win a national election.
And yet there is an extraordinary number of Freepers that say they detest executive orders out of one side of their mouths, yet cheer the possibility that Trump if elected, will rule just as obama, as a monarch sending his decrees down from on high. I have no such aspirations for our next President and consider it highly likely that should we elect a Republican President we will lose the majorities that we have, on paper anyway, in at least one of the houses. Not that the RHINOs would support Trump's campaign platform to begin with.
And of course the next response will be that then we will vote the RHINOs out, while in the meantime the demonrats will work to replace them with their own and nothing will be accomplished without the dealmaker, and us having to accept such watered down agreements as to make them moot. We don't have the leadership or the will in Congress that we did under Newt Gingrich, as a matter fact we may as well just declare this the congress of the uniparty.