- he HAS the power.
Well actually he doesn't.
First as a Constitutional scholar, and not a nitwit cowboy, he tends to operate in a manner bound by the existing legal framework.
We were used to other modes.
As far as dealing with a Congress, he by no means has a working majority.
With the number of Blue Dogs in his own party coupled with a declared strategy by the GOP of opposing anything proposed by the administration, with the primary objective being to cause a failed presidency, (screw the country) it is amazing that he has fared as well as he has.
Add to this the tide of undeclared racism that colors so many opinions, expressed here for instance, but probably best summarized by the Tea Party agenda of "Taking our country back", from you know who, and you get a sense of the headwinds he has encountered, trying to salvage the country from the shambles it was left in by the previous administration.
The fact that a predicted full blown depression has been sidestepped, at least temporarily, 2 inherited wars have been handled, if not satifactorily in my view, at least with a stated goal of ending, and a step toward a contemporary national health agenda has been taken, not to mention dealing with the residue of a decade of failure to operate the government, which was in a full neglect mode, needs acknowledgment.
It's easy to blame the incumbent for everything that is going wrong.
I think he's doing OK given the steaming pile of shit he was handed. |
