(07-18-2018, 08:36 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-18-2018, 07:06 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: You hate him (and at a visceral, personal level I might add) no matter what he says or does. Pot meet Kettle.

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You know, I do believe we have a very unusual circumstance here. I've never seen a President under such outright attack from all sides, including from within his own Administration, from the moment he won the election, with the sole purpose being to overturn his win the way Trump has been. It may not be outright civil war, but it's certainly an attempt to thwart the voice of the American people and stop Trump from governing in any meaningful way.

I don't see anything in the last two years that's worse than Mitch McConnell declaring that his #1 goal was to make Obama a one-term President.
The President doesn't appoint Congress. 
The Congress is supposed to be more powerful than the President.  They have deferred so much of their power to the president and his appointees over the last 100 years.  They may have to start taking it back.
It's not going to be pretty, and it will come across as disloyal to those of us who like the President at the time.
That said, this is just where I see things headed.  Congress has yet to pass major reforms to limit the President's power.  They are just talking about it.

What do find discomforting about that statement, that he uttered in in public?  Do you not think there were democratic congressmen thinking that and saying that behind closed doors in 1980 as Reagan's presidency began?  I watched for 8 years as the media ignored any hint of impropriety by the Obama administration until the volume was deafening.  By contrast, watching I believe ABC news this morning the talking heads were conjecturing that the Queen of England was sending a message about Trump because she wore a brooch that the Obama's had given her in the past, the day before her meeting with Trump.  

The rest of your statement is pure truth, the problem I see is that congress is so in bed with the lobbyist and donors that fixing the problem would be akin to cutting off their noses to spite their faces.

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