Bush may style himself as the " decider " but arn't American voters the REAL deciders?

Question

And we can fire him too. No wander they got rid of Harriet Miers.
With accountability and oversight back, Bush is headed for some majors storms on the horizon and will need all the legal protection he can get. I don't wonder that many in the GOP regret ever " electing " him that first time, much less the second term.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, though you are right, the American people have not been deciders, but followers for a very long time. Instead of actively participating in our political process and being informed, we gradually stopped taking notice of what was going on until we found ourselves with "the best politics money can buy." Now, with an administration and policies totally out of control, the issue is whether we will stand up and take our country back from the powerful few who don't care about us or our country, or continue to sit back and watch as it all goes away into massive debt and foreign policy designed to promote and protect the interests of international corporations like big oil and weapons manufacturers. There will only be storms if we actively give encouragement to Congress to stand up to Bush, for otherwise they will feel too vulnerable to act in the nation's interest, and cave in to special interests. This is a pivotal moment in our history, and you are right, it ultimately is up to us to decide, and we had better do it now before that moment is gone.

Answer 2

Well, technically we live in a representative democracy....far from calling the actual voters the 'deciders'. In fact what we do when we elect an offical is allow them the oppertunity to make decisions on our behalf without consulting us first. There are no consequences for an elected official ignoring the will of the people, unless you count possibly not getting elected back in to that cushy government job a consequence....anyways, thats far from the original point in the fact that Bush and all the other members of the executive and legislative branches are ther 'deciders' because we have given them to power to do so....for those that say he 'stole' the first election....then how the hell did he win the second one?, everyone change their mind when the towers fell? hogwash....he won the first and second election fair and square.....and instead of complaining about how bush sucks and stole an election, why dont you do something that will actually effect the scope of things and try to make this country a tru democracy where the voice of the people is the only voice that is heard.....that means every issue going to a majority vote of the public to be decided upon.....now if we could only get you lazy *sswipes to get up and go vote since most of you can get drunk 3 days a week and spend 12 hours a day online, but you cant take your given right to self-determination seriously....

Answer 3

He develop into elected President. So certain..he receives to go back to a decision some thing he needs for the adminstration only as the different President does. Congress and the courts get to make judgements too...it truly is termed "assessments and balances". Now I ran a google information seek for for this truth that he's "the decider" and got here up with no longer some thing. That makes you both uniformed (authentic i'm particular)or a liar (i'm very particular you're that too).

Answer 4

I dont' know why people don't understand what he means by that.



Our system is setup to have one president. That person has to decide on a direction to take. We don't have a system where every American gets to vote, without the benefit of intel, on every issue.



If we left it up to, say, Congress, they would agrue and discuss it into the ground making no decision, and then there's the issue of are members of that same Congress running for office anytime soon, are they following the polls because they want the vote. Congress has actions it can take against the war in Iraq. They haven't taken those actions despite what they may have said in their campaign speeches.

Answer 5

The American people decided to let GWB be the decider for 8 years. That's how it works.



And Bush is not "styling" himself as a decider..........thats the job. read the constitution dipstick!

Answer 6

Infact he is the one who DECIDES because majority of people elected him to power and once this elecotral power is delegated by the people to him he is the one who DECIDES, its upto you if you like it or not.

Answer 7

Ha! That's a good one... democratic Americans.



You're too funny...

Answer 8

You should be watching the stupid bowl instead of smoking weed and fantasizing that you just composed a lucid statement that will make the world stop and reorganize itself.

Answer 9

That's right the voters are the ultimate deciders, and they elected G.W. Bush "TWICE".

Answer 10

He is the decider unless he decides to let us decide.

Answer 11

yes and we decided he needs to be in power

Answer 12

no, we didn't elected, He stole the first one, or don't u remember?

Answer 13

Thank you!



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