president as chief legislator?

[Michael Zimmer]

It is a question of how to lead. This morning George Will said that the 
Republican pushback was all about setting up for the 2010 midterm 
elections. Assuming the economy is still in bad shape, they will blame the 
President and the Democrats and hope to use that to pick up seats in 
Congress. None of the other Round Tablers responded with the argument 
that, given the effectiveness of their opposition in reducing the overall 
size of the stimulus package and replacing expenditures with ever larger 
tax breaks for those individuals and enterprises on the top of the heap, 
the Democrats can, in 2010, claim that the Republicans own the economy: 
Because of them, the stimulus was too small to be effective and included 
all these tax cuts that don't stimulate nearly as much as expenditures.

In other word, politics, politics.

Michael J. Zimmer
Professor of Law Emeritus
Seton Hall Law School

Professor of Law
Loyola University Chicago
25 East Pearson Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312.915.7919



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I find it very disturbing that many commentators are chiding the
President for allowing Congress to legislate, instead of dictating to
them the stimulus package he desires.  Have these folks ever read the
Constitution?
Daniel Hoffman

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