Let me add at least one other whopper that the AP doesn’t mention. Obama repeatedly insisted that he inherited massive budgetary problems from George Bush, but the Con Law professor may want to retake his high-school civics class. Congress passes budgets, not the President, and the last three budgets came from Democrats. In three years, they increased annual federal spending by $900 billion, while the admittedly profligate and irresponsible Republican Congresses under George Bush increased annual federal spending by $800 billion — in six years. And during the last three years before taking office as President, Obama served in the Senate that passed those bills, and he voted for every Democratic budget put in front of him.
One year into his Presidency and Obama is an old joke. Sub the word lie/s for the word joke/s:
A man is sent to prison for the first time. At night, the lights in the cell block are turned off, and his cellmate goes over to the bars and yells, “Number twelve!” The whole cell block breaks out laughing. A few minutes later, somebody else in the cell block yells, “Number four!” Again, the whole cell block breaks out laughing.
The new guy asks his cellmate what’s going on. “Well,” says the older prisoner, “we’ve all been in this here prison for so long, we all know the same jokes. So we just yell out the number instead of saying the whole joke.”
So the new guy walks up to the bars and yells, “Number six!” There was dead silence in the cell block. He asks the older prisoner, “What’s wrong? Why didn’t I get any laughs?”
“Well,” said the older man, “sometimes it’s not the joke, but how you tell it.”
Not only that but during the second term of President Bush, at the mid term the dems took the majority in the houses. So to paint this as a total Bush thing is something that needs to be shouted out.
P4L
Obama is like an appliance repair guy. You hire him to do maintenance on your washing machine, and for 2 years he is paid to make it work. The 3rd year it breaks, and he spends a year trying to fix it, but fails.
And at the end of that year, he complains that it’s too hard to fix, that it was broken long before he was asked to fix it. To which any sane person responds: What did I pay you for for the two years you maintained it? Why did you take the job of fixing it if you were incompetent to do so? What am I paying you for if you can’t do anything but complain about how bad it is broken?
AP badgering Obama? Well, what else do you expect from that radical, right-wing, partisan propaganda machine!
Frank Luntz’s focus group on Hannity was very revealing. Out of about 30 people, pretty much a popular cross-section, the vast majority saw it as just so much hot air & chutzpah.
Congress may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it or by refusing to approve funding to enforce it. In the former, the president retains the power to veto such a decision; however, the Congress may override a veto with a two-thirds majority to end an executive order.
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