Obama takes combative tone with Congress in touting $3.8T budget

The Hill ^ | 02/13/12 12:50 PM ET | Amie Parnes

[skeeter]

Yikes, thats 4 million, not 20 million.

[fight_truth_decay]

The King hath spoken. He does not dictate to Congress. They dictate to him.

... Obama:"The president also has the prerogative to obtain advice that will assist him in carrying out his constitutional responsibilities, and do so not only from executive branch officials and employees outside the White House, but also from advisers within it."

"Legislative efforts that significantly impede the president's ability to exercise his supervisory and coordinating authorities or to obtain the views of the appropriate senior advisers violate the separation of powers by undermining the president's ability to exercise his constitutional responsibilities and take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Therefore, the executive branch will construe section 2262 not to abrogate [Repeal a law, right, or formal agreement] these presidential prerogatives."

The President claimed as he tossed a bite of pierogi into his mouth:
It is his "presidential prerogatives" to ignore or choose not to comply [example] in the 2011 spending package that would ban several top White House advisory posts through salary, who were never vetted in the first place.

[pierogi added for visual effect only]

[Terry Mross]

And the GOP decides to fight over unemployment extention then caves. What does that tell the average voter?
1) Congres is too extreme
2) obama is right and the GOP is wrong.

That’s how they see it. The GOP should learn how to choose their fights. Then again, it’s my belief the GOP wants obama to win.