Um, if that'a blotter, you might be confusing your version of reality with objective reality. ;^)
According to the US Constitution, the President is commander in chief of the military and for reasons best known to themselves, the Framers also gave the President carte blanche in foreign policy, subject solely to the limitation that the Senate has to ratify treaties.
If you're too young to remember when Democrat controlled Congresses attempted to reign in Republican Presidents like Nixon and Reagan, or weren't actually paying attention, you might be on a front row seat for a refresher course on Congress vs. Presidents, assuming that the Dems win both the House and the Senate in 2006.
And James Baker wrote the book on defying Congress, and Dubya had a front row seat of his own, right in the White House, and he was paying attention.
Bottom line, the branches of government are separate but equal. Congress doesn't tell the President how to be President, and the President doesn't tell Congress how to be Congress. |
