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dlssmith · #51 12-21-2005, 01:14 PM

You can't hire a guy to be C in C of the US and expect him to be bound by the same rules of conduct that say, the CEO of GM is bound by. The Pres is expected and required to do things that no other person can or would do. Inaction by a President is, in my book, a greater reason for impeachment than is action in the face of threats against the country.

There has always been a struggle between the senate and the executive about policy, procedure and all the rest. The constitution gives the President broad powers because the founders knew that the senate and house would discuss things endlessly and thereby become dangerously inept when faced with hard decisions. But grandstanding by individual senators, while common, is ridiculous, because they can only have influence as a body. Their individual voice doesn't really count and most of them don't like it. Many Senators aspire to the Presidency, and talk like a President, but mostly no one is listening and that pisses them off.