Posted on 05/09/2018 10:01:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If your "signature achievements" are done by executive power alone, they might as well be written in pencil.
Say what you will about Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the Iran deal. Personally, I wish the United States had stayed in. But this sort of zig-zag is exactly what happens when you end up governing with your pen and your phone, as Barack Obama did.
Faced with a recalcitrant, obstructionist Republican Congress that he helped bring to power two years into his presidency, Obama increasingly gave up on getting congressional approval for anything: military actions, immigration policy, trade policy, net neutrality, environmental regulations. Instead, as Damon Root wrote a few years back, Obama did exactly what he once had criticized his predecessor for and went full Andrew Jackson.
Well, you live by the pen and you die by the pen, and so DACA, the Paris Accords, and the Iran deal (routinely described as "one of President Barack Obama's signature foreign policy achievements") are down the tubes.
If Obama had tried to negotiate the Iran deal as a treaty, rather than an agreement, he would have needed the Senate to sign off on it. Same thing with U.S. involvement in the Paris Accords and a bunch of other "signature achievements."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Perfect!
Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal = Iran’s Economic Stimulus Plan
Libertarians are enamoured of such agreements because their names always include comething about “free trade” even though they are certainly not free trade. The only system that makes sense in the Free Trade department is Free Trade. That is one country, particularly a dominant one, declare Free Trade then implement it withinits own jurisdiction. That is eliminating all barriers to trade and especially the tax and regulation barriers a government imposes on the merchants and industries in its own borders. In a Free Trade milieu the US worker can outcompete anyone in the world because the productivity of each man hour makes American labor cheaper as a percentage of production than any other national sort. Other nations that erect or maintain barriers to protect their own industry will make favored businessmen into rich fishes in a poor pond with a market limited to its own borders.
Well, they don’t call them ‘signature’ achievements for nothing!
Obama and his signature figments...
And to call all racists who disagree with this POS?
How is that mind set fixed?
You cannot fix.
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