What the President of the US is & is not allowed to do.

[MarkBR]

Was wandering through things on internet & bumped into an article written for the Cato Institute (not an institute I tend to frequent being very right wing & capitalistic)  However, it can be useful to get balance in one's views so as to be not stuck in an echo chamber with loads of people with similar views.  However, this article I found very interesting.  On what the President of the uS is & is not allowed to do.

https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2025/restoring-representative-government#readings

Wonder what everyone thinks, comments welcome for all sides of the political spectrum.

[KhunLA]

Real simply for me ...

... he can't make or do anything to enhance your life or happiness

... he can't do anything to make you unhappoier than you already allow yourself to be

 

So he's as incidentally to your life, as you are to his.

Live with YOUR choices, you made them 

 

He can't do a whole lot without most of the other 535 corrupt idiots agreeing with him.

 

link didn't work for me, or if it did, I can't be bother sort through that mess

[Yellowtail]

38 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

Was wandering through things on internet & bumped into an article written for the Cato Institute (not an institute I tend to frequent being very right wing & capitalistic)  However, it can be useful to get balance in one's views so as to be not stuck in an echo chamber with loads of people with similar views.  However, this article I found very interesting.  On what the President of the uS is & is not allowed to do.

https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2025/restoring-representative-government#readings

Wonder what everyone thinks, comments welcome for all sides of the political spectrum.

I think it is interesting as well. 

[novacova]

42 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

What the President of the US is & is not allowed to do.

Allowed to exercise powers of the executive branch and annoy any who disagree. Not allowed to dictate powers over the congress and judicial branches and be annoyed by it.

[Yellowtail]

It is interesting that all of a sudden, the CATO Institute is concerned about Executive overreach..

[Will B Good]

44 minutes ago, MarkBR said:

Was wandering through things on internet & bumped into an article written for the Cato Institute (not an institute I tend to frequent being very right wing & capitalistic)  However, it can be useful to get balance in one's views so as to be not stuck in an echo chamber with loads of people with similar views.  However, this article I found very interesting.  On what the President of the uS is & is not allowed to do.

https://www.cato.org/regulation/summer-2025/restoring-representative-government#readings

Wonder what everyone thinks, comments welcome for all sides of the political spectrum.

 

Is that the wrong link or the wrong title to the thread?

 

This is all about congress slacking off and SCOTUS doing nothing  about it...(or being unable to anything about it).

 

It is basically pointing out that congress is failing to do the job for which the people who elected them.

[Yellowtail]

Just now, Will B Good said:

 

Is that the wrong link or the wrong title to the thread?

 

This is all about congress slacking off and SCOTUS doing nothing  about it...(or being unable to anything about it).

 

It is basically pointing out that congress is failing to do the job for which the people who elected them.

You should read it. 

 

The overreach by the Executive is a result of the Congress slacking off. Tariffs are a good example, as is overregulation. 

[novacova]

4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

It is basically pointing out that congress is failing to do the job for which the people who elected them.

What else is new? This has been going on for years, is why so many are fed up. Congress is corrupted through and through, folks go in with good intentions to find themselves threatened to go along or move along, then they become insulated within their caucus/club from reality and both sides of the media are culpable. And as for the constituencies, well, they’re just a bunch of mindless suckers chasing carrot sticks that the politicians and media is leading them by.

[save the frogs]

11 hours ago, novacova said:

Congress is corrupted through and through,

 

There is a lot of existing corruption in the entire system, so I am reminded of Shakespeare's quote:

 

sometimes .... not always, but sometimes ... 

 

 

[Lacessit]

What the American government does or does not do is of little consequence to me.

 

AFAIK the only American product I buy is Kindle books on Amazon.

 

Maybe there are services such as Google I use, but I don't pay a cent for them.

 

Washington has 500 Senate members, Congress 535.

 

It has 12000 registered lobbyists, and an estimated 100,000 shadow lobbyists.

 

Draining a swamp like that is well-nigh impossible. Thais are amateurs in comparison.