Okay, i remember what i wanted to say finally (it was OT when it came to the economy anyway), and has to do with the election. It was originally predicted that Bush would nominate and replace three supreme court justices, and as i recall he only replaced one, refilling a conservative seat with much resistance. So the Supreme Court is still largely liberal, and if Obama nominates justices it promises to only become moreso.
Congress had a 9% approval rating last i heard, so i was hoping that on election day we would see change. But did we? No. Not only was the Democrat majority upheld, it was strengthened. Again, wth were they thinking? More of the same, lets build a Congress that will surely have even less approval than before.
What i am concerned about, obviously, is checks and balances. We have three branches of government that are supposed to ensure that none of the others get out of hand and start passing/signing/upholding laws that are not constitutionally sound. This is even more important when the President Elect believes that the Constitution is a flawed document that should be largely repealed. So we now have a very dangerous situation because for the next two years at least we will not have any checks and balances in place most likely, as all three of the branches are going to be collectively patting themselves on the back and instituting massive changes that are going to be increasingly socialist in nature.
This is why i'm so pissed off and scared. Obama has been given a blank check.
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Bush II had no respect at all for the constituion. He didn't even bother passing laws to be upheld, he just made executive orders. And executive privelege. His vice president offered an interpretation of his own job that would differ with a 3rd grader, and the 3rd grade would be right.
I realized that's where all the paranoia has come from. The current president does *anything he wants*. So now some people are afraid Obama will to.
Wha?!?
i will admit that Bush was far too prone to enlarging government, while McCain promised to curb this, and Obama promises exponentially more of the same. But i do not remember even once hearing of a time that he did anything via executive order that flew in the face of the constitution. None of the media covered it, if that was the case.
The only thing i can think of is the Patriot Act, and it is Congress that we have to think of for that. Bush was not able to do anything he wanted because Congress fought him tooth and nail constantly, a good example of this is when approving his appointees.
i have no idea what the Cheney statement is supposed to mean.
Number of Executive Orders per Prez (Hoover - W):
Hoover = 1011
FDR = 3466
Truman = 8
Ike = 8
JFK = 2
LBJ = 6
Nixon = 5
Ford = 3
Carter = 4
Reagan = 8
Bush Sr. = 4
Clinton = 8
W = 268
Bush has made a lot more than is normal in the modern age it seems, but look at Hoover and FDR, the biggest socialists we've had in power to date. Astounding. i wonder what W's Executive Orders were but don't have time to go through them at the moment. Will look into it soon most likely.
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