How many times must we hear some candidate say, “When I am president, on day one, I will … ” — you fill in the blanks. Close the Department of Something; reform the tax code; nuke Iran; balance the budget, repeal ObamaCare … As if any of them could do that, given the limited (thank God, and the Founding Fathers) powers of the president. Why do their opponents or the moderators (there ought to be a better word for these weak links) let them get away with these patently phony boasts? They couldn’t do these things they promise if they wanted to, so constrained is the political process.
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Post Published: 27 January 2012
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