The Empty Bully Pulpit
I’m no fan of President Bush but compared to President Obama, he was willing to go alone when times were tough. He was willing to veto legislation, go defend the country without congressional authorisation. I don’t know what President Obama is waiting for before “punishing the kids” as Keith Olbermann puts it.
Reich offers some explanation to what was lingering on my mind all day long: why has President Obama allowed himself to be bullied by congress when in fact he was elected to take-on a dysfunctional political system in Washington? President Obama had the licence to go against Congress when he was given more than 300 electoral votes in 2008. But rather than changing Washington, he allowed Washington change him.
We may be wondering what if President Bush or even President Clinton were in the White House when all of this debt fiasco is going on. My answer to that is there would be no debt fiasco to talk about because neither President Bush, Clinton nor any president before them would allow themselves to get bullied by congress in the first place and congress knows that.
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