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Originally Posted by DelayedReaction
...the problem is that he now has a public mandate. The majority of Americans voted for a Republican President, Senate, and House of Representattives. This makes the President's job significantly easier, and will allow him to push many items through the legislature that wouldn't normally make it through because of partisan politics.
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Since when is a public mandate a problem? I thought that was the whole point of representative democracy. As far as I'm concerned, he should be able to use his mandate to accomplish an actual agenda instead of always being bogged down in partisan politics. There shouldn't be anything wrong with that since the majority of Americans elected the Senators and Reps he will have to work with. At the end of the day, however, I don't think either chamber will allow the President to push an agenda that would endanger the viability of the Party in the immediate future.