Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

No need to comment further on any of the issues except maybe this one. I guess I might observe that if the President had so much control over the Congress, we wouldn't be in a situation where the partisans are all hollering at one another in town hall meetings in August. The new healthcare reform bill would have been passed before the August recess, as the President directed the Congress. I think that you, many conservative writers and TV personalities and members of this forum blame the POTUS for a lot of what the Congress does, as though he had control over them.

Speaking for myself, I don't think anything could be farther from the truth. Frankly, I wish that the POTUS did have the political skills of someone like LBJ. I think much tighter and better legislation would result. But like the assertion that the Congress is considering the "Obamacare" reforms which have been widely reported not to exist, his alleged control over the 435 carries the same level of inaccuracy.