Obama's legacy was built in sand.............. And it's not because he's "black" like so many of the intellectual lightweights insist.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar..._faculty_lounge_subject_to_repeal_132720.html
The problem with this approach has been apparent since the 9 o'clock hour on election night, when it became clear that Donald Trump was going to be elected president. In 2010, Obama assumed there always would be a Democratic Congress to repair any glitches in Obamacare. In 2016, he assumed that there would be a President Hillary Clinton to keep his pen-and-phone regulations and "guidances" in place.
It's apparent that Obama is thrashing around trying to keep his policies in place. But more than those of other outgoing presidents replaced by successors of the other party, they're in danger of being overturned.
One reason is that they were never firmly established in the first place -- and not just because the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority existed for only eight months, from July 2009 to February 2010.
Rather, the Obama Democrats' policies, passed through slapdash legislation or through questionably legal regulations, never really captured the hearts and minds of the American people.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar..._faculty_lounge_subject_to_repeal_132720.html
The problem with this approach has been apparent since the 9 o'clock hour on election night, when it became clear that Donald Trump was going to be elected president. In 2010, Obama assumed there always would be a Democratic Congress to repair any glitches in Obamacare. In 2016, he assumed that there would be a President Hillary Clinton to keep his pen-and-phone regulations and "guidances" in place.
It's apparent that Obama is thrashing around trying to keep his policies in place. But more than those of other outgoing presidents replaced by successors of the other party, they're in danger of being overturned.
One reason is that they were never firmly established in the first place -- and not just because the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority existed for only eight months, from July 2009 to February 2010.
Rather, the Obama Democrats' policies, passed through slapdash legislation or through questionably legal regulations, never really captured the hearts and minds of the American people.
