[He’ll have done plenty of damage to those ideas etched in stone by then....]
The Jefferson Memorial is 1 mile South of the Oval Office. The pillars of the memorial, and Jefferson's Statue, are arranged so that Jefferson only becomes frontally visible when viewed from the North - from the White House.
Evidently, the design is that the occupant of the Oval Office is supposed to look out and see Jefferson standing there - GLARING AT HIM - from across the tidal basin.
"Is this piece of legislation on my desk consistent with what's written in stone over there?" they should be thinking...
The job of the Tea Party should be to remind them of that - RELENTLESSLY focusing their attention back 200+ years across the tidal basin.
Government Of the People, By the People, For the People was never intended to be a spectator sport. It's HANDS ON - and the responsibility of We the People..
If the eyes of the Oval Office are focused in the wrong place - it's OUR responsibility to correct their vision; and that began with Jefferson's general plan to enable the individual public to see the self-evident truth with their own eyes and mind, which Almighty God Hath Created Free...