Our "conservative" President

[Mark Moran]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... inionsbox1

Surely Cheney, a disparager of Congress and advocate of extravagant executive prerogatives, knew that the president considered the Senate's consent irrelevant.

[Dustin James]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/19/AR2008121902929.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Surely Cheney, a disparager of Congress and advocate of extravagant executive prerogatives, knew that the president considered the Senate's consent irrelevant.

I agree with George Will on this. GWB has extended the powers of the president far more than would have been allowed in the past, much of it via an anti-terrorism premise. I look at much of this from the role and timing.

The auto thing is a good example. No matter what party was in charge, no president wants to have the auto industry go down in flames on their watch.
This was not a conservative move. This administration and Rs in general have moved away from conservatism.

I buy American cars. Even if I didn't, the foreign investments and competition also employ vast numbers of Americans in the auto industry.

But for them to survive, they will have to look at the big picture.

When an American auto plant closes, every employee gets to go in and drink coffee for 4 months at full wage - doing nothing. How is that helpful? How expensive a concession is that? Would it not make more sense and return a better investment, if everyone was retrained? Even if it was for a different industry? Different subject, sorry.

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