No more meetings!
Check out Keith Hennessey’s description of the White House policy process. It is amazing anything happens there, or that they sleep, or that any good ever comes out of it. Unsurprisingly, good things rarely come out. And I’m not talking about just Obama’s administration, which has the double whammy of having wacky Marxists having all these meetings.
If I were President… it would be a little simpler. I would focus it more on what I want. They could meet on how to get it done, but what I want wouldn’t be an option. Anything from Congress would be laughed at or used as origami fodder. They would react to me, not the other way around.
I might have just one term, but fun, or, as I hope, it would be 2 terms and fix the countries direction. And the pension is GREAT either way!
August 24th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
There was an article, I think Reason ran it, entitled “Drunk with Power.” It discussed the situation that not only was all of this happening with too few people, they apparently began to brag and compete to see how little sleep they could work with.
The title was phrased that way because the article drew a comparison between alcohol intoxication and sleep deprivation.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Hugo Chavez speaks? Like all the previous presidents, you would ride into town on a white horse and start barking orders on the basis of your 2-8 point victory margin in the election. Or were you expecting a 20-point margin?
But those people on the Hill have heard all that before. Some were there for Trick E Dixon’s arrival. Your grand plans would be buried in committee hearings and filibusters and leaks, etc. You would get no money appropriated for your schemes and no appointees confirmed. The Constitution gives you power only to approve or disapprove of legislation and to faithfully execute your office. The President cannot make law, and the people who can make law, over your veto if need be, will jealously guard their power.
August 24th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
blah blah blah. I’d try it. It might not work , but at least nothing would be done then ( a good thing) I’d also veto pretty much everything.
August 24th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Only a dream. With such a dictatorial attitude you would never survive the election process to get anywhere near the office.
August 24th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Dictatorial? Dream on, who was I shooting? I was just focusing on what I want, driving my agenda. If Obama can survive it, the American people are clearly stupid enough to elect pretty much anybody.
August 25th, 2010 at 9:48 am
In political argument, anything that contradicts a liberal’s point of view is labeled fascist or dictatorial or racist.
A) People who know how to lead and have experience in that area delegate. I learned that from a part time management job in college. Too bad our president is too much of a narcissist to have learned the same.
B) I think a president who does absolutely nothing but veto every bill from congress would be vastly better for this country than any of the shrubs I can remember holding that office.
C) No one president could undo the damage, admittedly. But he could stem the bleeding. Abuse of executive orders is common among the current posse of presidents, why not just issue an order ceasing all federal enforcement of unconstitutional laws? Why not veto all of the bullshit congress spits out? Why not stop the endless and pointless drug war?
Imagine what a president like that could do with a libertarian leaning congress…
August 25th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Here I am (-:
August 25th, 2010 at 11:49 am
If you ran against Obama, Bush, McCain or any other candidate that has been running for president in my lifetime you would get my vote in a heartbeat.
Qualifications: Military service, run successful businesses, largely reasonable points of view
August 25th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
I’d pick me, or just about anybody over who we’ve had. Our system rewards psychos.
August 25th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Narcissists and Sociopaths and Politicians, Oh My!