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.