Yep, Obama is in the executive branch. How perceptive. I’m sure he’d love to have a strong legislative branch, but the GOP is so dysfunctional that the house can’t even pass a farm bill, a transportation bill, an energy bill, a climate change bill, a jobs bill, or anything other than a bill to avoid cuts to air traffic controllers (because they spend more time at home than at work). Someone has to be a grownup and do his job, or America will be as irrelevant in the world as the House of Representatives has made itself in governing.
Ramirez again gets it totally correct.Obama, the “constitutional professor” knew enough about the PC coward culture in today’s America, so he figured he would be allowed by both the Legislative and Judicial branches to get away with 8 years of a Law-Less regime.-Scoff-Law politics are at the peak under Obama.-His selected cabinet directors fit his Alinsky Agenda…the DOJ is now the Department of Injustice in most important cases….selected to further the Obama “change” of the traditional government system.-I pray for God to help Americans survive and do another Patriot Tea Party election in 2014 and 2016 to Save America.
Obama has not had the much influence on the judicial branch since being elected. Most of his nominees to benches have been languishing in committee with many of them moving on rather than waiting fruitlessly. The trunk of that tree has been overdeveloped by years of efforts of the parties to make the presidency much stronger than it should be. The legislative branch is made puny by the very inactions and partisan conflicts of the legislators themselves.The sad thing is, despite the apparent health of the tree, it has become hollow on the inside. It is a tree whose leaves are so acid, nothing grows in the ground beneath it. It bears no fruit, and has no flowers. It’s roots spread wide and does damage to any nearby structure.Mr. Ramirez may feel this is how Mr. Obama views the branches of gov’t, but it is OUR gov’t, and it is up to us to care for this tree with respect and civility. Only then will it grow with health and hope.Respectfully,C.
Is it even possible for ultra conservatives such as yourself to post something that is not a name calling, vicious and just plain nasty and ugly post, every once in awhile?
Not only that, but your post is simply not true at all, there are just as many liberals that have to get up and go to work and pay taxes as there are conservatives. The fact is that the more liberal “blue” states are also in general the wealthiest, and therefore pay more into the federal government than do the conservative “red” states. And those same conservative “red” states are far more the takers of federal benefits than the “blue” liberal states are, Go ahead and Google it and learn something. For instance Californians pay $1.00 and get back $0.81, whereas Mississippians pay $1.00 and get back $1.84. Once again, try to state facts, and even attempt to be nice every once in awhile. Or is being ice some kind of a wuss kind of liberal thingy? Or, I could ask, just What Would Jesus do??
Ramirez again gets it badkassward, ignoring the Bush/Cheney “unitary Presidency”, and the actions of the House Republicans today to “legislate” all day to day activities of agencies that are supposed to be Executive Branch authority.
LIke most “conservatives”, the ignorance is so massive, okay, Ramirez knows better, he just draws outright lies, it makes their entire argument a joke!
That’s right! We want a dictatorship! That’s why we’re passing laws that make it harder for the masses to vote! That’s why we strip voters out of the rolls in case any of them decide to vote twice or something! Its a good thing that the Republican gubbernors in their respective states are doing all of this for us! But you can keep your guns cuz we have army guns! And Tanks too! And battle ships!
I would be happy to say the same, but the only one that I sometimes see doing that, is sometimes omnius. But he is outnumbered by about ten to one by the nasty ultra conservatives (such as sometimes even yourself) on this site. So I do generally direct my admonitions towards the more ultra conservatives. However, there are some thinking conservative moderates here like mikefive, that I truly respect and like, even if I do not always agree with them. Please, do join the likes of him, RT, and myself, in at least trying to be more civil, and even sometimes seeing and adopting the viewpoints of other moderate conservatives and liberals also. The issues should not be just party oriented, but examined logically and dispassionately on the merits of each individual issue!
And try to remember that while President Obama’s own approval ratings are nowhere near what he would like them to be (at some 46%, last I read) that of Congress, yes both parties, but mainly the tea party type Republicans of the House of Representatives, is well under 20%! Of course, you would not realize that from the number of ultra conservative totally anti governmental and anti President Obama posters on this site. But, we will see where things really stand in the next few federal elections, now will we not??
MIkefive: just check out Doc Hastings’ guys at Natural Resource Committee to see how extreme their efforts to control “regulations” are going, in the wrong direction. Back when Reagan was in and I was reading the Federal Register daily, it was interesting that in a one week period, I found 32 regulations they were writing that did the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the law was intended to do! YEs, it does work “both ways”.
Zit, while it’s well known you have the attention span of a gnat: I’ve often said I don’t approve of Obama’s “drone policy”, or that he didn’t veto ACA without “single payer” being part of it, nor do I appreciate his overstepping with NSA surveillance under the cover of the Patriot Act, and yes, those “things from the past” that are still around to haunt us!!
One of our greatest problems with the right IS the FACT they refuse to acknowledge any of "W"’s screwups, in financial circles, or his wars, among others.
Ignoring that “the past is prelude” is the short-sidedness of Republicans at every turn, and yes, more than a few Democrats as well
BTW, I hated LBJ and MacNamara for their screwups in ‘Nam, but when NIxon came in with Henry, and ran that war LONGER than Johnson, Watergate wasn’t the “sin” they committed I was most upset by. BUT: JBJ did right with the Civil Rights Act, and Nixon did a good job with NEPA and related environmental legislation he signed, that today’s idiot Republicans want to undo!
If you don’t understand, or heed, history, you have no perspective on the present, and are willing to condemn the future to continued failures, just like those of “W” we’re now enduring…
What else would you expect from a president with no legislative, economic, or foreign policy experience? (90 days in office as a US Senator does NOT count…) His own resume describes him as a “neighborhood coordinator” Would YOU hire this candidate for anything? Especially if he didn’t have election-fund financing and brown skin color????
Odon Premium Member over 10 years ago
Now I see how Obama has been able to easily accomplish his various stated goals.
emptc12 over 10 years ago
Could be an ash tree, and to carry the analogy further, somewhere under the bark are the human equivalent of emerald ash borers.
ARodney over 10 years ago
Yep, Obama is in the executive branch. How perceptive. I’m sure he’d love to have a strong legislative branch, but the GOP is so dysfunctional that the house can’t even pass a farm bill, a transportation bill, an energy bill, a climate change bill, a jobs bill, or anything other than a bill to avoid cuts to air traffic controllers (because they spend more time at home than at work). Someone has to be a grownup and do his job, or America will be as irrelevant in the world as the House of Representatives has made itself in governing.
zekedog55 over 10 years ago
Inane lyrics, inane political cartoonists…’Ramirez is the King of Vapid!
Enoki over 10 years ago
It’s not dying like Obama’s administration and legacy is…
disgustedtaxpayer over 10 years ago
Ramirez again gets it totally correct.Obama, the “constitutional professor” knew enough about the PC coward culture in today’s America, so he figured he would be allowed by both the Legislative and Judicial branches to get away with 8 years of a Law-Less regime.-Scoff-Law politics are at the peak under Obama.-His selected cabinet directors fit his Alinsky Agenda…the DOJ is now the Department of Injustice in most important cases….selected to further the Obama “change” of the traditional government system.-I pray for God to help Americans survive and do another Patriot Tea Party election in 2014 and 2016 to Save America.
chazandru over 10 years ago
Obama has not had the much influence on the judicial branch since being elected. Most of his nominees to benches have been languishing in committee with many of them moving on rather than waiting fruitlessly. The trunk of that tree has been overdeveloped by years of efforts of the parties to make the presidency much stronger than it should be. The legislative branch is made puny by the very inactions and partisan conflicts of the legislators themselves.The sad thing is, despite the apparent health of the tree, it has become hollow on the inside. It is a tree whose leaves are so acid, nothing grows in the ground beneath it. It bears no fruit, and has no flowers. It’s roots spread wide and does damage to any nearby structure.Mr. Ramirez may feel this is how Mr. Obama views the branches of gov’t, but it is OUR gov’t, and it is up to us to care for this tree with respect and civility. Only then will it grow with health and hope.Respectfully,C.
DJGravityX over 10 years ago
I think the Judicial is a bit larger. Certainly the appellate courts.
David Riedel Premium Member over 10 years ago
Things were much different under Bush, Clinton, Bush . . . .
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
Is it even possible for ultra conservatives such as yourself to post something that is not a name calling, vicious and just plain nasty and ugly post, every once in awhile?
Not only that, but your post is simply not true at all, there are just as many liberals that have to get up and go to work and pay taxes as there are conservatives. The fact is that the more liberal “blue” states are also in general the wealthiest, and therefore pay more into the federal government than do the conservative “red” states. And those same conservative “red” states are far more the takers of federal benefits than the “blue” liberal states are, Go ahead and Google it and learn something. For instance Californians pay $1.00 and get back $0.81, whereas Mississippians pay $1.00 and get back $1.84. Once again, try to state facts, and even attempt to be nice every once in awhile. Or is being ice some kind of a wuss kind of liberal thingy? Or, I could ask, just What Would Jesus do??
joe vignone over 10 years ago
Raygun planted that seed.
pirate227 over 10 years ago
Obama only controls one, look it up.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Ramirez again gets it badkassward, ignoring the Bush/Cheney “unitary Presidency”, and the actions of the House Republicans today to “legislate” all day to day activities of agencies that are supposed to be Executive Branch authority.
LIke most “conservatives”, the ignorance is so massive, okay, Ramirez knows better, he just draws outright lies, it makes their entire argument a joke!
d_legendary1 over 10 years ago
That’s right! We want a dictatorship! That’s why we’re passing laws that make it harder for the masses to vote! That’s why we strip voters out of the rolls in case any of them decide to vote twice or something! Its a good thing that the Republican gubbernors in their respective states are doing all of this for us! But you can keep your guns cuz we have army guns! And Tanks too! And battle ships!
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
I would be happy to say the same, but the only one that I sometimes see doing that, is sometimes omnius. But he is outnumbered by about ten to one by the nasty ultra conservatives (such as sometimes even yourself) on this site. So I do generally direct my admonitions towards the more ultra conservatives. However, there are some thinking conservative moderates here like mikefive, that I truly respect and like, even if I do not always agree with them. Please, do join the likes of him, RT, and myself, in at least trying to be more civil, and even sometimes seeing and adopting the viewpoints of other moderate conservatives and liberals also. The issues should not be just party oriented, but examined logically and dispassionately on the merits of each individual issue!
And try to remember that while President Obama’s own approval ratings are nowhere near what he would like them to be (at some 46%, last I read) that of Congress, yes both parties, but mainly the tea party type Republicans of the House of Representatives, is well under 20%! Of course, you would not realize that from the number of ultra conservative totally anti governmental and anti President Obama posters on this site. But, we will see where things really stand in the next few federal elections, now will we not??
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
MIkefive: just check out Doc Hastings’ guys at Natural Resource Committee to see how extreme their efforts to control “regulations” are going, in the wrong direction. Back when Reagan was in and I was reading the Federal Register daily, it was interesting that in a one week period, I found 32 regulations they were writing that did the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the law was intended to do! YEs, it does work “both ways”.
Zit, while it’s well known you have the attention span of a gnat: I’ve often said I don’t approve of Obama’s “drone policy”, or that he didn’t veto ACA without “single payer” being part of it, nor do I appreciate his overstepping with NSA surveillance under the cover of the Patriot Act, and yes, those “things from the past” that are still around to haunt us!!
One of our greatest problems with the right IS the FACT they refuse to acknowledge any of "W"’s screwups, in financial circles, or his wars, among others.
Ignoring that “the past is prelude” is the short-sidedness of Republicans at every turn, and yes, more than a few Democrats as well
BTW, I hated LBJ and MacNamara for their screwups in ‘Nam, but when NIxon came in with Henry, and ran that war LONGER than Johnson, Watergate wasn’t the “sin” they committed I was most upset by. BUT: JBJ did right with the Civil Rights Act, and Nixon did a good job with NEPA and related environmental legislation he signed, that today’s idiot Republicans want to undo!
If you don’t understand, or heed, history, you have no perspective on the present, and are willing to condemn the future to continued failures, just like those of “W” we’re now enduring…
Pilgrim77 over 10 years ago
What else would you expect from a president with no legislative, economic, or foreign policy experience? (90 days in office as a US Senator does NOT count…) His own resume describes him as a “neighborhood coordinator” Would YOU hire this candidate for anything? Especially if he didn’t have election-fund financing and brown skin color????