President Obama wishes to curtail Congressional haggling in order to streamline government.
A political move from the outset, Obama is attempting to steal the GOP's thunder and calumny, as the Republicans have correctly castigated President Obama for overseeing one of the largest expansion of the federal government in modern history.
Still, the august attempt to cut spending and close government agencies is a harbinger of necessary changes to come. The governor of Michigan has instituted a similar program, permitting independent auditors to infiltrate city councils and school boards to effect necessary and politically unpopular spending cuts.
Perhaps there is a new dawn rising in this country. Milton Friedman declared that voters should not focus on throwing the bums out of office, but make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
For President Obama, like many presidents before him, his political ambition may work in the best interests of the country. No executive wants to stare down a recalcitrant Congress that refuses to pass any legislation. Every chief executive, including the current Vanity-in-Chief, want to be remembered for having accomplished something.
Perhaps like the previous Democratic President form Arkansas who took up space in the White House, President Obama will shift to the center and start cutting spending, limiting government, and extending rightful powers back to the people. He will not do this because he cares about the rights and freedoms of the American people, but because he wants the world and posterity to know that he was "in charge", that he brought change to Washington, that he authored drastic transformation in a town when the previous Congressional assembly had done very little.
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