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Originally Posted by srmom
The president, and certainly, the vice president can only wield any influence if they have a clear mandate from the people seen in a landslide vote.
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Oh, how I wish that were true. I think Cheney especially has shown that it does NOT take a mandate to wield a great deal of influence.
I do agree that congress goes along with entirely too much, but they're too worried about getting screwed over if they vote against something- they're "soft on terrorism" they "don't support our troops" and all that nonsense. Yuck. Strap on a pair!