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To: Monorprise
"Not President. Senators have always made bad Presidents! We need a Governor or someone else with executive experience to be President."

While Senators who were professional pols have, at least in modern memory, made poor presidents, Jim ran his own company for a long time before he entered politics. He has plenty of executive experience although I think many people have a larger company than his in mind when they use that term. I'm not sure he'd change his mind and want to be president but if he did, he would do just fine (except in the eyes of those who think playing games is part of doing well in that job). In fact, he would probably see the job as a lot more like it used to be than as the expanded role it's become and just stick to being the head of the executive branch instead of trying to replace the other two branches through the use of executive orders.

Regards

15 posted on 08/29/2010 2:20:20 AM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is already insane and sequestered on golf courses or vacations so you won't know it)
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To: Rashputin

to Resolve the executive order problem congress needs to thin the body of laws. All executive orders are based upon some law already passed by congress.

We now have an accumulated build up of 200 years of laws. so of course the presidency is extremely powerful.

Honestly I think an amendment that puts an automatic ~20 year maximum expiration date on every act of congress is in order.

I’d rather have to have a majority required to maintain a law, then a majority to kill a law.

Just as I would also rather have congress spend much of its time debating the merits of renewing existing laws rather then passing new laws that usurp yet more rights from us.

On this grounds I really don’t care who runs for president of the United States, unless that person was willing to dismiss all Federal employees in unconstitutional non-defense departments, to make enforcement of unconstitutional Federal edicts impossible.


24 posted on 08/29/2010 5:00:22 AM PDT by Monorprise
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