Budgets are matters usually or always of compromise in Congress. No side gets all of what it wants. T is trying, in ignoring Congress' allocation of money, to get everything he wants. Why should Congress go to the trouble of making compromises if the president can just get whatever he wants? Why should Congress convene at all, why should…
Budgets are matters usually or always of compromise in Congress. No side gets all of what it wants. T is trying, in ignoring Congress' allocation of money, to get everything he wants. Why should Congress go to the trouble of making compromises if the president can just get whatever he wants? Why should Congress convene at all, why should we maintain a tripartite pretense when it's all said and done, the president is an absolute monarch? Something's not right.
True. But other recent presidents have also tried to avoid negotiating with Congress - most notoriously Obama's phone-and-pen tactic. What's wrong is that we have an electorate that often punishes politicians for compromising.
Right, it changes the game completely. What I'm hoping for is that the sheer egregiousness of this hits enough people over the head that congress starts growing a pair and doing its job.
Budgets are matters usually or always of compromise in Congress. No side gets all of what it wants. T is trying, in ignoring Congress' allocation of money, to get everything he wants. Why should Congress go to the trouble of making compromises if the president can just get whatever he wants? Why should Congress convene at all, why should we maintain a tripartite pretense when it's all said and done, the president is an absolute monarch? Something's not right.
True. But other recent presidents have also tried to avoid negotiating with Congress - most notoriously Obama's phone-and-pen tactic. What's wrong is that we have an electorate that often punishes politicians for compromising.
Right, it changes the game completely. What I'm hoping for is that the sheer egregiousness of this hits enough people over the head that congress starts growing a pair and doing its job.