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| He's Gone Rogue! |
Obama has carved out something
of a Lone Wolf Presidency in recent weeks. After the China Climate deal, the
immigration Executive Order on immigration, plus his budget deal with Congress
and finally the announcement of the opening of ties with Cuba….it all adds up.
Obama has finally broken out of the box. He’s free now without fetters from
Congress, from future elections, and even from his own party.
He’s gone rogue, as they say, in
defining his legacy. And in his final two years, or as he terms it, “the fourth
quarter” of his Presidency, he’s ensuring that his legacy is going to be more
about the positives and things he can
do then the obstruction that has plagued him throughout much of his last six
years.
Obamacare will always be a
defining force with this President. But after scaling down two of the longest
wars in American history, killing Osama Bin Laden, ramping up a new policy of
spying and drone warfare, and propping up a faltering economy, Obama has had no
time to stop and take a breath.
He still wants to close
Guantanamo, that’s a given. And I’m sure he would love, if not a Grand Bargain,
than at least some time of infrastructure deal and perhaps a re-shaping of the
Corporate Tax Code if it is possible. If not, he will continue to go it alone
in order to shape his legacy without the help or approval of an obstructionist
Congress.
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