It seem that lately more than ever he is just doing whatever he wants on the basis that he said he could. What gives? where are the checks and balances I used to learn about in grade school?
2007-07-09 09:56:41 · 11 answers · asked by C-Ham 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No people who think that the Media is ou to get everyone are sheep.
I mean its not like they are just making this stuff up?
I don't thinkSteve Inskeep and Nina Totenburg are just sitting in their office writing novels and reporting it as news.
2007-07-09 10:06:16 · update #1
Lots of people have told him he isn't King. He doesn't believe them and they haven't had the guts, or the majority to impeach them.
It does offer a solution to the Energy Crisis though. We could hook the remains of the Founding Fathers up to generators and power the whole Eastern seaboard with the enrgy they generate by spinning in their graves.
2007-07-09 10:03:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is how it works in a Constitutional democracy. And yet it seems that if your minority or your insufficient majority doesn't get it's way then the checks and balances don't work. They do. That's why Bush is able to do what he does. YOUR minority doesn't get to decide what WE in the constitutional majority have to do. Get it? That's what checks and balances are all about. If a sufficient number of congress folks or judges agreed with your view of things, Bush couldn't do much of what he has been able to do.
But don't forget that the President is also a 'check' and has considerable weight in the balance of things.
If you'd gotten past grade school you'd probably have been taught that. That's probably one of the reasons you vote democrat. Darned public school system.
2007-07-09 17:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
...ummm, seems you must have forgot... it's Congress that makes the Law... it's the Supreme Court that adjudicates the Law... the President just trys to hold the "reins" of this wagon, sometimes those "horses" get to running away...
So far this year, Congress is an almost total failure... a-lot of BIG talk but no action... Oh yeah, they voted themselves a $4000.00 pay raise and increased the min.wage... whoopee !
2007-07-09 17:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because the first 4 years the Republican congress let him do whatever he wanted.
2007-07-09 17:04:26 · answer #4 · answered by punxy_girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do know that he was elected to 2 four year terms and that his second one of those is just about up, right?
When he is out of office here in a little while will you still think he is a king?
He knows he's not a king and so does everybody else.
2007-07-09 17:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
I'm sure that any President that holds office has taken liberties that would be considered more Monarchy and less Presidential. It makes no difference if it is Bush or Clinton.
2007-07-09 17:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
From what I see and hear, I don't think he would listen. He's the decider and that's it.
2007-07-09 17:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by gone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think was one of the classes he skipped... he likes being King.. it isn't for much longer. don't tell him!
2007-07-09 17:02:29 · answer #8 · answered by Debra H 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol, sure, it was in a memo he got while he was on vacation. but he cant read and cheney wasnt there to read it for him.
2007-07-09 17:01:46 · answer #9 · answered by ♥willow♥ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are falling right into what the media wants you to think. You are a sheep.
2007-07-09 16:59:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋