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Originally Posted by wmbwinn
"the rescue package is being administered by the department of the treasury......that is not run by congress but through the executive branch" -Mavdog
The president is not controlling that. The president doesn't do a darn thing with the IRS or the Federal Reserve either.
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huh? the president doesn't have administration over the treasury? are you serious?
and there has been episodes of the white house using the irs to pursue people they don't particularly like. their hands wer slapped, but it did happen.
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The closest that a president gets is to 'control' is appointing people to these semiautonomous departments.
Do you not recall the bitter debates in Congress about how to use the money? It is Congress that is involved with the matter of appropriating the monies and dictating how they are to be used.
Granted, the Treasury Dept. is another semiautonomous department and works on its own to a large degree. But, the Congress has worked with that process. The President has not.
heck, GW Bush couldn't figure any of that out anyway. I don't think Obama could either.
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the debate is just what stated limitations the appropriations have. if it isn't tightly worded, the department has all the latitude to do what they want.
in this case, they gave the sec of the treasury an extreme amount of power, perhaps too much.
as for if obama is intelliegent enough to 'figure any of that out", sure he does.