Reply #83: What is so hard to understand about the president having executive power, not legislative power?

[BzaDem]

Wars, encroachment on civil liberties, and increases in executive power, were all, well, increases in executive power. They were not examples of legislative power.

He got his tax cuts because they could go through reconciliation (and they are going to expire this year because they did go through reconciliation).

You are not making a very persuasive case that Bush got whatever he wanted from a legislative standpoint. SS privatization and immigration reform was his ENTIRE second term agenda, and it ALL failed in flames.

I sometimes wonder if the problem is our civics education in this country. It is really not that hard to comprehend that the President is the head of the executive branch, not the legislative branch.