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Hayabusa Rider

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Try governing by council.. hell take a look at congress there is your council type arrangement.

We have a system of checks and balances. If one branch is going to abrogate their duties, then something has to fill the vacuum. The age of the imperial presidency has been going on for awhile. We are just more cognizant then in the past.

And it's so welcome. After all who needs the protection of something like a Constitution when we have people like Obama and Bush.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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The president has hardly any power.

Congress and the Senate have all the real power. They pass legislation, they fund things.

What can the president do? He can veto, but this can be circumvented by a majority. He can pass an executive order telling the executive branch how to implement things....But ultimately they are bound to legislation, and at the mercy of funding.

Stop being so willfully ignorant.

It seems you haven't been reading the papers lately.
 

Agent11

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Why don't you link me to something substantial then? Because all I have heard is Biden blowing some hot air...
Something that is not a rare phenomenon...
And the usual suspects shouting into the echo chamber at full volume.
Also not rare.

As I understand it they cannot do anything with an executive order.
They can wish they could, but their lawyers will tell them it won't work and if they try it they will be mired in bullshit for the rest of their term.
 
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