Biden Doesn't Want to Be President

[Mr_Neb]

Nope. He wants to be in Congress. Either that or he doesn't understand the role of being President vs. being in Congress.

In his town hall, he was asked what he will do to protect LGBTQ right. He answered, "I will flat out just change the law."

The problem with that is that the President doesn't make or change laws. Congress does that. My follow up question would have been, "It is Congress that makes or changes laws, not the President. If you feel that laws need to be changed to protect LGBTQ rights, what has prevented you from doing so when you were a Senator for 36 years? If that wasn't enough time, why didn't one of your congressional colleagues submit such a bill when your party control congress and the White House?"

He constantly does this. He is going to change environmental laws, energy laws for "renewable energy", climate change laws, tax laws. He keeps saying that stuff and no one calls him on it.

If he wants to repeal the Trump tax cuts, write a bill as a Senator and get it passed. Want free Medicare for all, write a bill and get it passed.

 

[KeithD]

I think it's Mr. Neb who doesn't understanding the U.S. governmental process.

 

[Publius1990]

I think it's Mr. Neb who doesn't understanding the U.S. governmental process.

Really? Please explain rather than respond with a banal comment.

 

[JackLuis]

I think Mr Neb has a point. The Presidents job is to EXECUTE the law. Everyone blames the PeeResident for not executing the law, but the courts are charged with interpenetrating the law, even on a case by case basis, but Congress has to write the laws.

Our problem is that the President often does not press the law to it's fullest extent, Courts are often reluctant to hold people of a "Certain Class" responsible, and Congress is just pitiful!

This is the fault of the people who don't hold their representatives responsible and chuck the shitheads out of office.

Fortunately the President has term limits, unfortunately Congress is protected by the fact that they can blame the "Other Side" and the Courts are protected by the fact that many of them have life time appointments.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Thing being in reality executing laws and making them are very, very similar and that was what was set up eons ago and we've seen various levels of people doing it from top to bottom over the ages.

 

[ThePlumTiger66]

This is the fault of the people who don't hold their representatives responsible and chuck the shitheads out of office.

If only...

 

[KeithD]

Really? Please explain rather than respond with a banal comment.

I'm not playing your "use your time to research stuff I then just reject" game. Presidents don't just sit there and execute the laws Congress passes. Anyone who thinks so hasn't been paying attention to U.S. government. Presidents (normally) have a program plan that they try to work with Congress to get sent to them to sign into law (and the signing/not signing power itself goes further than "just execute" law as does the power to water down the execution of any law that doesn't serve the administration's program in favor of what the administration actual wants to do.) Again, if you don't understand that, you haven't been paying attention to how the U.S. government actually operates. The president is one of the most powerful players in formulating law.

Do your own homework Publius. Your ignorance started off with your headline. You started off with a statement that didn't deserve to be taken seriously.

 

[Mr_Neb]

I wasn't saying that the President doesn't have a role to play in the process. Although the President can't pass laws (as Joe sees to think he can) he can VETO what comes across his desk.

So the best that Joe or any President can do is to signal to Congress that he/she is in favor of whatever program he/she wants and then has to convince Congress to get the job done. When the President gets the bill, it gets signed and then become law.

My point is that Joe keeps telling us what changes HE will make "on day one.. blah blah blah." HE can't do any of that as President. He can use the bully pulpit to get his point across but that's it when it comes to law.

The President has far more power in other areas but not as much as Joe seems to think when it comes to lawmaking.

I just wish the press would do their job and not let this stuff slide.

 

[KeithD]

My point is that Joe keeps telling us what changes HE will make "on day one.. blah blah blah." HE can't do any of that as President. He can use the bully pulpit to get his point across but that's it when it comes to law.

Quote, please, your posts of saying the same thing when Trump was saying all of the things he was going to do on day one (and point to him having done them). You're just being a partisan hypocrite. And now you are on ignore.

 

[ThePlumTiger66]

Quote, please, your posts of saying the same thing when Trump was saying all of the things he was going to do on day one (and point to him having done them). You're just being a partisan hypocrite. And now you are on ignore.

You scared him off Neb.

Spy Pilot is off to lick his wounds, put on his tinfoil hat, and fall out of reality for a while.

Good job.

 

[YDB95]

My point is that Joe keeps telling us what changes HE will make "on day one.. blah blah blah." HE can't do any of that as President. He can use the bully pulpit to get his point across but that's it when it comes to law.

1. Presidential candidates talk like that all the time.
2. Biden is used to thinking in those terms because he spent 36 years in the Senate.
3. The president DOES have the ability to propose bills, and Biden will, if elected, be able to start pushing the laws he wants from day one.
4. This isn't a dictatorship (despite Trump an McConnell's best efforts), so everyone knows the president alone can't do what Biden is calling for.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Nobody sane wants to be President. It's a shit job with few perks. I bet you don't even get to find out if there's aliens.

 

[Mr_Neb]

1. Presidential candidates talk like that all the time.
2. Biden is used to thinking in those terms because he spent 36 years in the Senate.
3. The president DOES have the ability to propose bills, and Biden will, if elected, be able to start pushing the laws he wants from day one.
4. This isn't a dictatorship (despite Trump an McConnell's best efforts), so everyone knows the president alone can't do what Biden is calling for.

1. Very true but to varying degrees. I don't recall Obama or John McCain or Mitt Romney sounding so naïve or intentionally being so simplistic. That being said, it doesn't make it right and insults the more astute of the electorate. That is not the way to win the undecided.

2. That may be the reason but it is no excuse.

3. Yes, then say so. He should be saying that if elected he will "push for all the planks in the platform but he can't do it alone. He will need Congress to do their part. So don't just vote for me. Vote for your Democratic candidates for Congress."

4. Sadly, I don't think it is true. Everyone does not know how our government is supposed to work. There are outrageous claims made by both parties and the mobs on both sides just keep repeating them.

The final thing about Biden is that he is making all the pledges and promises as if he is new to the stage. Why didn't he and Obama right all these present wrongs during their eight years in the White House and with a Democratic Congress for a portion of that time?