"With President Obama, I think he understands but we need to understand when you speak of the power of the presidency which you hear on cable television everywhere about, well, President Obama's not using the power of the presidency," Rather added. "The basic power of the American presidency is the power to persuade. Check
to persuade your own people,to follow your leadership OK
and to follow those persuade those overseas to follow. Hat trick, right?
Now, the power of the presidency has been declining through at least our last two presidencies with president George W. Bush Finally, he drops the name!
and there's no magic wand that President Obama can wave to solve that." Silly Rather, The Messiah(TM) doesn't need a wand!
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The basic power of the American presidency is the power to persuade
With an unconstrained drone kill campaign abroad?
Sicking your alphabet soup agencies on domestic political opponents?
To selectively suspend enforcement of law to garner votes from factions?
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"Brownley serves on the House Committee for Veteran Affairs and is ranking member on the House’s Subcommittee on Health, which oversees the VA."
That's the real punch line. Real military (vice bureaucratic) culture is like the dark side of the moon to these people. They're like people at the service counter who can read the button on the cash register but don't know the price of the product nor can do basic math (with tax %) if they had to go manual.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
