You couldn’t be more wrong. An Executive (that’s why it’s called “chief executieve”) executes. That means he gets things done. He couldn’t do that without issuing orders.
Are we to pretend that the president’s “commander in chief” role doesn’t involve commanding? Like it or not, Truman fired MacArthur.
Perry missed a huge opportunity the other night. When they were all talking thru the eyes of legislators about never ever issuing an executive order, he should have laughed at them and told them they obviously didn’t have a clue about being in charge and issuing orders. All they knew about was casting their ballot in a cast of hundreds....no responsibility, no buck stops here.
I think Perry is a lot smarter than we are giving him credit for. Look at the Gardasil controversy. Bachmann has knocked herself out of the top tier of candidates because of her over reaction. Perry acknowledges he made a mistake, but will come out of this looking great because the the guiding principal in his initial decision was the protection of Texans. The charge of crony capitalism in this case is such an overreach Bachmann and Palin have tarnished their brand significantly.
Perry may be doing the same thing with the Ponzi Scheme controversy. Romney is going nuts about how great the program is and at some point Perry is going to come out with reasonable reforms. Romney will then have to jump on board or become marginalized, either way he clearly falls behind Perry because Perry was the leader throughout the whole discussion.