(08-02-2019 11:38 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(08-02-2019 11:36 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-01-2019 08:38 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-31-2019 09:34 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Interesting to see the only difference between the view of any Democrats on stage tonight on executive power and Trump's use of a limitless amount of executive power only seems to be in whom wields that power.

So true, as are so many other things in politics. "You can't do that; only we can can do that."
Obama's "Pen and phone" rule was anathema to the right, lagniappe to the left. Now Trump is doing the same thing, and the roles are reversed.
Shoot, I bet some Democrat could call Baltimore "infested" and nobody on the left would notice, much less think it was racist. Oh, wait, that's already happened, and the Democrat was...Elijah Cummings.

That video of Cummings is 20 years old. You know what that means?
Twenty years of Cummings' representation has not helped at all. Nothing has changed, at least not for the better.

It's not in his interests to change things. If the status quo has kept you in power for twenty years, and getting re-elected is what you care most about in life, why would you change the status quo?