The Power Of Presidency

The Power of Presidency The power of being president, and all the endless decisions that comes with it. Barack Obama has the final say of the legislative, executive, and judicial branch. These three branches make up America’s politics. Now the president can’t govern a whole country all by himself, he needs help. In irony the president may be called the most powerful man in the world but his politicians also control the outcome of his decisions. The president needs to take into consideration the powers of the other three branches. "A president cannot lead unless he appreciates the perspectives of other elected politicians and accepts their legitimacy." (Bowles) What has Obama been doing with his powers lately? Instead of sending his ideas for laws or changes to Congress for them to vote upon, he has been just by passing their judgment and using his own executive power. For example the New York Post just posted on November 14th President Obama insists he’ll bypass Congress if necessary on immigration – saying he won’t “stand by” and wait for the legislature to act. (NYP Holdings Inc, 2014) Two debates have already started on this issue and it’s either a pathway to citizenship or illegals are pardoned. In my opinion why would you shield immigrants from being deported and give them a right to vote when they illegally granted themselves permission to be in your country no matter what crimes they committed. Congress can fight back against Obama’s executive power by using the power of the purse, sense of Congress resolution, nominees, stand- alone legislation, and a lawsuit. (Daren Bakst, 2014) They can use the power of the purse which is not giving the executive branch an effective check. If Congress passed a sense of Congress resolution it would stop Obama but it would also state Congress’s viewpoint on the situation. Congress could stop taking action on judicial and executive nominees. (Daren Bakst, 2014) Stand-alone legislation would go into the existing immigration law and reestablish it doesn’t involve deportation, but Obama can just veto it and see Congress’s position again. Last but not least Congress could file a lawsuit against the president but they would need to keep all of their options open. In 2008 President Barack Obama accused former president Bush of being irresponsible and unpatriotic for raising our debt once. When Mr. Obama here has raised our countries debt four times over, he spent 1.4 billion dollars on vacations to these third world countries doing an apology tour for America, when it’s not his job to do that. Then he made us look even weaker by trying to take our guns away, when any other country in their right mind wouldn’t attack America just for the simple fact there is at least one gun in every home. Now we can talk about the taxes and unemployment and his theory of taxing the rich who make the jobs, and then he might go about saying how the government makes the jobs but how many of them are truly filled. When Obama took office in 2009 the unemployment rate was 7.8% and in 2013 the unemployment rate was 7.9%.Obama’s making President Bush’s rates of 4.8% and 5.4% look pretty good right now.
Presidents in past decades tried not to overstep their boundaries. I have to admit they were pushy when it came to national security and war, but they at least played by the book. Congress was our main branch of government until the 1930’s. In the past eighty years there has been a dramatic change of power to where the executive branch has about equal power as the legislative. It seems that in today’s presidency theirs a combination of constitutional and evolutionary powers at work. Unfortunately, the forceful personalities of strong presidents have expanded the role far beyond we worst feared. What happened to the good old presidents like Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson? I believe our great presidents ideal view of our government was to be a government which understands the cause of the current global crisis, and works on CONNECTION between ALL the countries in the world without taking advantages of each other’s situation. A government which works FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY and WELLBEING FOR ALL PEOPLE by providing them with the basic necessities like food, water, shelter, education, and a REAL health program. Instead of the power and money, they could use their qualities, talents, and skills maybe even some compassion to help this country and the world obtain peace, liberty, and justice for all.

NYP Holdings Inc (2014). Obama says he’ll bypass Congress on immigration if needed. Retrieved from: http://nypost.com/2014/11/14/obama-says-hell-bypass-congress-on-immigration-if-he-has-to/
Daren Bakst (2014). 5 Ways Congress Can Push Back on Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration. Retrieved from: http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/24/5-ways-congress-can-push-back-obamas-executive-actions-immigration/