Reply #110: You know ...

[Kweli4Real]

I get tired of so many clearly bright and intelligent posters trashing the president about what he hasn't done. People seem to ignore that IT IS NOT THE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT TO PROPOSE OR INTRODUCE LEGISLATION {I would bold-face this if I could figure out how} and it never has been ... that function falls exclusively in the hands of congress. You know, that separations of powers thing in the US Constitution.

The president CAN cheerlead, cajol, encourage, play tit for tat, attempt to pursuade, even threaten or exhort, the representatives, indicidually or collectively; but in the end, it is up to congress to introduce and vote on what the law is, and will be ... the president can only sign it or not sign it.

Note: I intentionally excluded the president's use of the Executive Order because is that really what we want? Because eventually there will be a republican in the whitehouse and you can rest assured that whatever the president enacts via EO, will be reversed through EO, and much more.that will