2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm calling for a boycott of the Presidential Inauguration January 21 [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,408 posts)I personally think that a lot of people got used to George W. Bush getting everything he wanted, so when President Obama rolled into office, a lot of us assumed that he would be able to do the same, particularly since he had a Democratic Congress to work with during the first two years. Unfortunately, it really doesn't seem to work that way, particularly for Democrats. Clinton had a Democratic Congress for the first two years in office and he ran into the same roadblocks on some of his policies. It seems like Democrats in Congress prefer to assert their "independence" from their Presidents while Republicans practically rubberstamp everything their Presidents want to do. Nonetheless, Presidents don't have unlimited power and I'd rather have one that respects the constitutional framework that our founders laid out as opposed to Presidents like George W. Bush whom assert near unilateral control of the government.