In the Washington Post today, South Dakota’s US Senator John Thune observed that President Obama isn’t exactly pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda in his last year in office:
Obama’s need to work with Congress effectively ended late last year, after lawmakers passed a two-year budget accord and approved a spending package to keep the government open for the bulk of the coming election year. And the political reality was evident in Obama’s speech, which centered on a high-minded appeal for a more inclusive and responsive brand of politics but included no specific proposals in that area.
Instead, he called on Congress to take action only on a handful of issues whose chances of passage this year range from slim to none.
“The speech tonally was very different than previous years,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. “It’s almost like, ‘Okay, I’ve done what I can, and I’m going to continue to do what I can this next year by executive action.’ But I think he’s been on the glide path out of here, and I think the speech tonight reflected that.”
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Each carries deep political complications and thus little chance of advancing through Congress in a presidential election year.
“If I had to handicap, I’m not sure any of them get done this next year,” Thune said after the speech.
please join him.
Of course, Obama is too busy buying multi-million dollar homes in Dubai and then having Navy admirals fired for questioning the allocation of national security resources to scope out the president’s new posh ocean side property. Disgusting.
Have proof?
Of course not, I heard it on the interwebs, so it’s gotta be true! No really, I was just trying to be funny. Guess it didn’t work.