Posted on 01/17/2017 5:49:44 PM PST by jazusamo
President Obama oversaw the deepest legislative malaise in modern political history, according to the Washington Times Legislative Index, which captures his struggles to find ways to work with a Congress that ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile toward him.
Over the course of his eight years, he has signed just 1,227 bills into law — less, even, than one-term Presidents Carter and George H.W. Bush. Digging deeper into the numbers, Congress spent less time in session, handled less business on the chamber floors and generally sputtered for much of Mr. Obama’s tenure, according to The Times’ index.
Blame for the poor showing falls across Washington. Some analysts say a Congress with four years of divided control hamstrung Mr. Obama, while others say the president failed to find ways to work with the legislature that voters gave him — particularly after the 2010 elections.
“The president was never good at reaching across the aisle. So when the composition of Congress changed relative to what it was in his first two years, he wasn’t able to accommodate that very well,” said Andrew Busch, a presidential scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California. “He never accustomed himself to operating in a system where he was not the sole player.”
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We should play Hit The Road Jack in his honor!.........
Amen! That’d be most appropriate.
na na naaa naaa
na na naaa naaa
hey hey hey
goood byyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Yep, that pic sums up the high points of his presidency.
Who needs congress when you’ve got a pen and a phone? Plus a big government - big media alliance to shove it down our throats.
Obama was too arrogant and lazy to help do the hard work of working out the bugs that permits good grounding for solid enduring legislation - easier to use executive mandates which he can pronounce all by himself - and which can be undone just as easier by his successor.....
Exactly! That is the turkeys legacy.
...less, even...
Fewer.
And, I'm not sure that's a bad thing or that Pres Obama should get the credit.
The number of laws is not a useful measure of success. What matters is the number of good laws, and that number is close to zero under the destructive bigot.
The author says that like it's a bad thing.
If you ask me, Congress writes too many laws. In addition to all the tens of thousands of federal regulations the alphabet agencies create, it's why our legal system is so complex and convoluted, the average person can't help but be a criminal by sheer default.
Indeed. Congress not being in session is a good thing. It was never supposed to be a full-time job in th first place. The more laws, the more laws there are to be broken. Heck, when has human nature managed to obey even ten?
I hear you.
But of course 0bama used his pen to sign into rules, regulations, and “laws” that Congress wouldn’t have any part of.
Clown Dunce nobama...the ultimate affirmative-action hire. Loser. Pathetic.
Come on, lightning!
Bending his elbow that much in the back swing means he is more likely to slice (as a right hander) or duck hook (as a left handed golfer) in his down swing. IOW, the ball is lost in the ocean.
He may have signed fewer bills into law, but I think the number of pages in the bills, full of unrelated riders, is quite large (e.g., Louisiana Purchase of the ACA). Furthermore, the number of regulations issued pursuant to these laws, and also to pre-existing laws, was monumental. The suffocating embrace of the regulators is felt throughout the land.
It is a testament to the massive public pervasiveness of the LameStreamMedia (ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/NPR/NYTimes/WaPo/etc., ect. that CONGRESS was always written up as the “obstructionists”, when, it was always Obama & Obama & Reid that were never operating in a “bipartisan” manner. Note also that by the very word “obstructionist” the media was operating as the virtual state media and defending the Obama administration.
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