Consider the situation:
(1) America elects a non-politician who runs on the promise of enacting a specifc tax reform plan.
(2)Congress refuses to enact his plan.
What would the 2014 congressional elections look like?
The patience of the American people has run out with politicians. It has simply run out. If #1 & #2 came to pass, I would expect the 2014 elections to be a bloodbath for Republicans. Literally guys that had been there 20 years would get kicked out.
Something would pass. Whether it would be exactly 999, I don't know. But politicians are about saving their hide before saving their power.
The patience of the American people has run out with politicians. It has simply run out. If #1 & #2 came to pass, I would expect the 2014 elections to be a bloodbath for Republicans. Literally guys that had been there 20 years would get kicked out.
Something would pass.
There’s only two last steps of credible threat to Congress left now.
The Founders left the POTUS and the public with two very grim options, but they are options nonetheless.
I seriously doubt that Cain has the stones to use executive power to the limit which he would have to set things right. He’s going to be surrounded by a bunch of the usual blithering idiots with Ivy League degrees, filling his ears with all manner of BS... and he’ll probably listen to them. The only way a POTUS can avoid this is to simply fire huge swathes of the executive branch staff, sack entire cabinet posts and so on.