President
Obama oversaw the deepest legislative malaise in modern political
history, according to the Washington Times Legislative Index, which
captures his struggles to find ways to work with a Congress that ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile toward him.
Over
the course of his eight years, he has signed just 1,227 bills into law —
less, even, than one-term Presidents Carter and George H.W. Bush.
Digging deeper into the numbers, Congress
spent less time in session, handled fewer business on the chamber
floors and generally sputtered for much of Mr. Obama’s tenure, according
to The Times’ index.
Blame for the poor showing falls across Washington. Some analysts say a Congress
with four years of divided control hamstrung Mr. Obama, while others
say the president failed to find ways to work with the legislature that
voters gave him — particularly after the 2010 elections.
“The president was never good at reaching across the aisle. So when the composition of Congress
changed relative to what it was in his first two years, he wasn’t able
to accommodate that very well,” said Andrew Busch, a presidential
scholar at Claremont McKenna College in California. “He never accustomed
himself to operating in a system where he was not the sole player.”
A symptom of the obstructionist GOP that stated as their number one goal: make Obama a one term president. Didn't work.
ReplyDeleteOne of the highest approval presidents in our lives. Here are the most recent numbers. ROCKIN'!
CBS News 1/13 - 1/17 62%
ABC News/Wash Post 60%
CNN/ORC 1/12 - 1/15 60%
Gallup 1/14 - 1/17 57%
Rasmussen Reports 62%
Too bad that 65 to 70 percent of these same people thought he took us down the wrong track, right? Or did you forget about that little fact? Probably one of the highest wrong track records in history. Certainly this is the case when one contrasts his made up "positive" rating versus his "wrong track" ranking.
DeleteGallup:
DeleteRight track /wrong track peaked at 71% 1999 Feb 12-13 under Bill Clinton.
Reached it's lowest point of 7% at the end of the Bush presidency 2008 Oct 10-12.
These are the facts.
Now, we have an out going president with stellar approval, 60%.... and an incoming President with unprecedented low approval 38%. Appropriate that the guy who felt the need to force Obama to reveal his birth certificate is the same guy who refuses to reveal his taxes after he pledged he would. Reap / sow.
"If I run for office I will produce my tax returns, I would love to do that." - D. Trump
https://youtu.be/wtQeb7RHUC4
70% WRONG TRACK FOR OBAMA IS THE FACT. Enjoy pretending is popular. He got his ass kicked in a Trump/Obama match up in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina. He and his rebel wife were the Hillary campaign in those states. Headlines announces that "Hillary is bringing in the big guns." Everyone was excited. The political/party Stud was in town . . . . . . and he got his skinny ass kicked.
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