[Last Visible Dog]

Try language along with some facts: "asked for" is not the same as "distributed."

What more can the president do? All he can do is "ask for" it - it is the congress that handles the money. Not to mention, I see no support for Perlstein's "distributed" claim in the article he linked (the word "distributed" does not appear in the article)

[lugsoul]

I don't know if it has been spent, distributed, funded, burned, or flushed. What I do know is that one does not equal the other, and that it is disingenuous to cite to an article that says one thing in support of a completely different proposition.

As far as "what can the President do," I feel pretty confident that, if he thought the process was dragging along more slowly than he liked, he could do something about it. Not just this President. Any President.