Do you personally believe that Congress is an equal branch of government?

Question

Or do you think they should obey the President?

I know what the factual answer is... I'm just wondering what everyone else believes.

Shrink: It's not apples and oranges at all. Either Congress is an equal branch of government, or it isn't. Why is this question difficult?

Answer 1

factual - yes

were they for the first 6 years of this administration? - No.. they were just an ok goon squad

now they are playing catch up to reestablish their balance.

Answer 2

Apples and oranges. Two separate powers, with distinct responsibilities.

Obeying the President isn't something I've seen anyone say they wanted from Congress. Allowing him to exercise his Constitutional authority is an entirely different matter. And using the troops as political pawns, extorting the President, those are my issues with Congress, currently.

What do we the people get? One vote.

EDIT: Nowhere did I speak of the difficulties of the question. Why is my answer so difficult?

Answer 3

they are equal in power but both want some political achievements so conflict is inevitable. In time of war, both need to be cooperative with the generals in the field. How can White House or Capital Hill makes decisions for the ones who lead our troops in the front?

Answer 4

Liberals are self loathing creatures.

That explains a lot of what they do that makes no sense.

Liberals are the new fascist Nazi's.

They can't tolerate any opinion different than their's. Look what they do to college speakers. They throw urine, pies, pull fire alarms, start fights, etc etc, to keep conservative's from speaking. They want to pass laws to eliminate talk radio. Liberals are intolerant, bigoted fascists, incapable of allowing free speech.

Islamicfascists have pledged to murder you and me. Liberals want to help them. Conservatives want to fight them.

Liberalism is ok when it is practiced.

But todays America's liberals, are not real liberals. They are against change of all types and devoid of new idea's or solutions to problems.

Conservatives offered many new programs and initiatives the last 6 years, and liberals always fought against them, with never an original idea or solution to offer in return.

Liberals love it whan a woman murders a child that is unborn but hate it when criminals who rape, murder and commit attrocities get the death penality.

In reality the liberals of today are Stalinists and Marxists.

Their belief that government is the solution to all problems and no wealth should be privately owned is what drives todays liberals.

They are also anti-American. They believe America is the worlds problem and the world would be better off without America in it.

Liberals are all for forsaking the poor weak and downtrodden if America's military is involved in keeping them alive, but insist on keeping America's poor weak and downtrodden in their miserable existance because of 'political correctness', (New Orleans and any urban city