Americans have become brain-dead. The Associated Press writes -- and brainwashed Americans actually believe -- that what the president wants is what must be -- e.g., Congress "unveiled budget blueprints that embrace his (President Obama's) key priorities ... ."
The Constitution never says the president has the authority to follow his priorities. The opposite is in fact the way our system is supposed to work. The people end their representatives to Congress, and Congress decides on priorities and either enacts them into law or drops them. Then the president's job is to run the admin department to do the constitutional wishes of the people via Congress.
When we give the President the authority -- criminal, since it's unconstitutional -- to grab the power from the people, the system is working backward. Congress is now filled with criminals, for this reason alone, not counting their other crimes and corruption. Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.
Bill Dekle
Millen
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Mr Dekle: Blame the Republicans.They passed the The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921(also known as the Good McCormack Act-Repubs from Iowa and Illinois) which required the President to submit a budget. The President was Harding a Republican, the House was 302 to 131 Republican (with 1 Independent Republican and 1 Socialist), the Senate 59 to 37 Republican.
You're right Mr Dekle. The American voter has become a dupe. (see previous post). The responsibility for change lay with the voter not accepting the nannyship of socialism, but the responsibility of adulthood. I hope we survive the current experiment in "Peter Pan reality" where we'll never have to grow up. 2010 will give the adults a chance to provide a change we can believe in.
I wondered how long it would take for PT to chime in. You missed the "government school" part of your usual ignorant posts. Sorry you are oblivious to history, you might try reading sometime and turning off Rush.
YOUR wishes may be getting ignored, Mr. Dekle. But the wishes of an overwhelming majority of Americans are NOT being ignored. Look at the world outside of Millen for once.
This is rich! When W was signing executive order after executive order and signing statement after signing statement to avoid the rule of law and to extend presidential powers beyond congress control you didn't hear a peep out of these people! Now that Obama is following the law and doing exactly what he was elected to do they are having a fit! Amazing...truly amazing!
Yes willis, the majority of Americans are stupid, lazy, and worthless...
Mr Dekle, millions of Americans have been disenganchised by the DimocRAT Controlled Congress, as they prevent the Republicans elected to represent them to have no voice in passing legislation. The House is the worst led by Princess Pilosi. The porkulus bill and budget were written behind closed doors by Pilosi with NO Repubican amendments allowed. The latest move by the DIMs is to pass legislation (Budget) with a simple majority called "reconciliation" (which gives them absolute control/power). I suggest Americans wake up in 2010 and save this country by removing the DIM's control at the ballot box.
Wiiliston, how can one person be so STUPID. Everytime you post it's has to be without a doubt the most ignorant statements on this website. Are you sure your not in an institution somewhere with access to a computer.
Apex24..how can you call anyone STUPID and then proceed to use incorrect grammar? First "it's has to be"??? What's that? And also the word is "you're" not "your". Your is a possessive pronoun. You're is a contraction of you and are! Please learn the difference! And Willistontowns post was well written, to the point and dead on the money!
gagirl, you must be a real doll if all you have to do is correct grammar from the Augusta Chronicle website. Speaking of stupid...
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