tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post4410911163463718812..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: "The Mask Comes Off: Putrefaction Most Foul"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-23040626901032832812016-05-04T01:38:21.943-04:002016-05-04T01:38:21.943-04:00The POTUS does not have anything like the power th...The POTUS does not have anything like the power that americans think he (or she) does. When the elect someone, and things don't get better, they cry "Traitor, betrayer, we was lied to!" and hang him in effigy. <br /><br />Exactly the same as primitive tries do to their god-kings when the rains won't come.<br /><br />The truth is: in any system with term limits for the elected officials, power will accumulate in the hands of the unelected officials. Career people who have been there for years.<br /><br />Why did President Obama not close Camp X-Ray? Because he was secretly a lizard person all along? No, not really. Oh, he may actually be a secret lizard-person, but the first and final reason he hasn't closed camp X-Ray that he can't.<br /><br />Trump, however, might just start taking certain things (CiC of the armed services, head of the Executive branch) literally. The resulting kerfuffle may reveal something important: the elections for POTUS are a distraction. In the USA system of government, what actually matters is congress. So long as the right people are in the house and senate, it really doesn't matter much what the president does or says.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com