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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I read about half of the article and got bored.
First the article seems to want to perpetuate the myth that Bush is not too smart. That's one thing I love about Bush; the dumbest guy gets elected Govenor of Texas and then elected President. He has to be the luckiest dumb guy on the planet. So there is hope for me to accomplish something that will make my mother happy.
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How is this both a "myth" and the "one thing [you] love about Bush"? You might want to rethink what you're saying here. Personally I have a higher standard for president than just someone who will make aceventura3's mother happy through comparison.
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Second, when he was elected half the country did not accept him has the true President. And Washington insiders never accepted him, including some members of his party. So, what does he do? He turns to people he trusts. That is a big surprise.
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That's a nice fairy tale but the reality is that he purposefully avoided any semblance of coalition building. A few moderate appointments would have eased the shakey ground on which he entered the Whitehouse, but he did nothing of the sort. From day one he's been a divider. He siezed power by dividing the nation and during his presidency we've only seen that division widen.
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Third, the President can't do much without congressional support. So even if his ideas are born in an enviroment with "yes men", congress has to buy into it. In reality he doesn't even have much control over foreign policy because he doesn't control the money.
In the end you have to conclude the article is perhaps entertaining, but certainly trivial.
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Well we've certainly learned exactly what the president is able to do without the approval of congress from GWBush who has sought the absolute limits of his power, only to be occasionally reigned in by congress or the courts. And it has been a very seldom occasion. The problem of course is that the majority of both houses of congress can be included in Bush's cadre of yesmen. I don't find the article trivial at all.
We've seen the ill effects of this M.O. again and again with this presidency and there's no sign of change. No one wants to tell GWBush anything bad. If they do, their own political life is at stake. If we didn't have a free press in this country there would probably be another 5000 hurricane Katrina dead. "Don't you guys watch television? Don't you guys listen to the radio?" -Ted Koppel to (then) FEMA director Michael Brown. It's too bad no one in the Federal government had the guts to tell their superiors what was actually happening.