From: thyat@sdf.lonestar.org (Tom Hyatt)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: Blaming congress for all his woes... (was: FAQ: The Record Thing
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:03:09 GMT
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access

In article <9oe1PB5w164w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> elendil@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Edward J. Branley) writes:
>mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>
>> In article <DisZPB4w164w@mintir.new-orleans.la.us> elendil@mintir.new-orleans
>> >The main problem here is that Rubbers doesn't want to offend his
>> >tennis buddies in the Senate.  He's spent just about all of his
>> >political life prior to becoming President schmoozing with senators,
>> >and now he finds it difficult to cross them.  That's a total lack of
>> >leadership and moral courage.
>>
>> Bingo.  Which is likely to move me to write in Dave Barry this year.
>>
>> In some of my more cynical moments, I figure that since Ol' Lipless
>> will protest and protest and then sign whatever Congress passes his
>> way, then if we're going to be destroyed by idiotic Democrat policies,
>> we might as well have a Democrat in the White House to take the rap.
>> May as well be stabbed in the front as the back.
>>
>> Besides, the Demos have run against Hoover since 1929.  If it comes to
>> that, I'd rather have the Republicans running against Clinton for the
>> next 90 years than the Demos running against Bush.
>> --
>> Mike Van Pelt          | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
>> mvp@netcom.com         | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
>>                        | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
>>                        | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
>
>You're operating under the assumption that a Clinton administration will allow
>Congress to go unchecked.  I don't think that's going to happen.  Congress is
>capable of working with the President when the Prez has a plan.  Reagan's
>people proved that.  It took arm-twisting to get a Congress dominated by the
>other party to cooperate, but they did it.
>
>Rubbers Bush, on the other hand, has no plan for the country.  He sees himself
>as a steward, a helmsman, not a captain.  A little leadership (from either
>side) is all that is needed.  That means Clinton, since the Repubs weren't
>smart enough to dump Rubbers this year.
>
>

A good example of a President and a Congress not getting along was the Carter
presidency.  Although there was an overwhelming majority in both houses, 
the Congress had an agenda of its own vs. what Carter wanted to do to control
inflation and other woes that befell his presidency. Unfortunately for Carter,
he found out too late the veto is a very powerful tool.
 

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Hope the hurricane misses. :(

Tom H.

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