President Obama is asking Congress for more power..?
And this could be one of your first opportunities to speak up and put this nonsensical rubbish to rest once and for all. It seems to us at The Thinker that the choice is overwhelmingly obvious. President Obama is not a profound leader by any means. He may have his politicking down to a science – but please does the country need strong leadership right now, or does it need a politician at the helm?
Like I said the decision is obvious. If someone can explain with a reasonable rate of assuredness why we should take the most prosperous nation in history off of the economic system that provided the way to such historic heights and place in the ho-hum of failing systems the world over, then I’m all ears.
America as a nation is quite young as nations, empires, and imperial regimes are judged. Most countries are far older with past histories of war and violent takeover of other nations for profit. Albeit America may want the world to be pinnacles of democracy, the fact remains that some nations just want to take their time with change – like perhaps a century or so given civil rights.
So let’s ask the question: How many ladies can we get to comment about how they appreciate women’s civil rights in Iran, Iraq, or all of the Islamic countries? Come on now, in America women’s suffrage lasted how many years? Moreover, was the populace at large and finally the government supportive of those changes?
This is a selected segue we hoped to achieve. Showing the political rhetoric spewing from Washington and the actions of President Obama, the politician and not the leader he needs to be.
President Obama is asking Congress for more power to shrink the federal government. The commander in chief proposed merging six trade and commerce agencies on Friday, a move analyst are interpreting as an attempt to quiet Republican critics who say Obama wants to balloon the government.
“The government we have is not the government we need,” Obama said in D.C. to a crowd of small business owners. “We live in a 21st century 
economy, but we’ve still got a government organized for the 20th century. Our economy has fundamentally changed – as has the world – but the government has not.” Analysts are analyzing – we just hold our position of why are you talking to small business owners about what you want?
Obama suggested combining the following agencies: the Commerce Department’s core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Trade and Development Agency.
Now before doing anything what a leader would do is to send the specifics of these agencies to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for full cost estimates while at the same time send the information over to the Government Accounting Agency (GAO) pursuant to if the agencies as they exist today are even needed. Obama still needs Congress’ okay before he can make restructuring changes.
“I definitely think it’s a political move,” Hunter College political science professor Jamie Chandler told the Daily News. “It’s meant to both appease Republican critics and Democrats who are criticizing the government for not being more aggressive.”
“Why now?” Republican strategist Ford O’Connell asked. “President Obama is looking at the polls. He’s not doing well in Florida, and independents are souring on him. This is one way to lower government spending to make government more efficient.”
The President may also be feeling pressure to downsize before November’s election. During his last State of the Union speech, he suggested that government needed to become more efficient.
The deal is far from assured. There’s no sign that he’ll get cooperation from the Republican-led House, following a year-long pattern.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University said Obama’s move was in step in the right direction.
“By reducing the size of government the president is taking small step to cut spending and reduce our debt problem,” said de Rugy. Now is this the reason why analysts are projecting that Obama wants to increase spending by $2.6 trillion? Obama evidently walks to the cadence of his own drummer.
But O’Connell said Obama was merely trying to “shift the blame to Congress” heading into the election season. “He can say, ‘Hey, I tried to do my job. I’m being blocked.’”
Chandler said the GOP is still furious about Obama’s recent appointment of Richard Corday as head of a new consumer watchdog agency, despite vehement Republican opposition.
“They’re going to be reluctant to give the President more power to do this, and they’ll probably argue it doesn’t go far enough,” he said.
Obama insisted, “This is not a partisan issue…Congress needs to reinstate the authority it has given to Democratic and Republican presidents for decades.”
If we may…just because somebody says something does not necessarily mean the action will produce glamorous results. Obama has been long on promises that could not from the start be implemented. Like amnesty for starters. The real point we’re trying to make is anyone can send anything they like to the Congress; however, getting that action through Congress is exactly why it is there, when one considers the separation of powers. (For further reading please click here.)
