06-29-2024, 03:26 PM
After 7 years of Trump and Biden, it should be plainly obvious that POTUS is largely a figurehead, as I've been saying for a long time.
Career staffers have been running things for a long time. A President may have deep expertise on a few topics, but even then it's no match for people who's entire education and experience is in the field. Those people KNOW how to "guide" the President to the solutions they favor. And if not, those same people know how to torpedo the policy so it gets knocked down by Congress or the courts, or is just rendered toothless by design.
It's too bad people don't expend the same energy and scrutiny for their elected representatives. Congress, not the President, is who appropriates all the spending and passes (or doesn't pass) all the laws.
Career staffers have been running things for a long time. A President may have deep expertise on a few topics, but even then it's no match for people who's entire education and experience is in the field. Those people KNOW how to "guide" the President to the solutions they favor. And if not, those same people know how to torpedo the policy so it gets knocked down by Congress or the courts, or is just rendered toothless by design.
It's too bad people don't expend the same energy and scrutiny for their elected representatives. Congress, not the President, is who appropriates all the spending and passes (or doesn't pass) all the laws.
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