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Rightwing playbook: Republicans in power: Use every loophole Democrats in power: Preach bipartisanship and the importance of fairplay.
by scoot_718 6y ago
Rightwing playbook:
Republicans in power: Use every loophole
Democrats in power: Preach bipartisanship and the importance of fairplay.
- d4rti 6y agoWe're about to see the big switch in caring about deficits too.
- stefs 6y agoyou're already a week late here, they already started.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoThe worst part is that Democrats eat that shit up. I can't believe that we're going to get nothing done for another 4 years because Biden believes in a weaker executive branch. Personally, I think the president has far too much power (especially in war-powers), but Biden will need to deploy a ton of executive orders to get anything done with the legislative branch he's about to get - and he won't do it because he (along with his party and Obama) believe in fair-play, norms and institutions. The issue is that their opponents don't. Republicans will win back the house in 2024 in no small part due to Biden being precieved as having done nothing due to his reluctance to use executive orders to legislate from the oval office like his predecessor did.