A president can only sign bills set in front of him. The job of presenting him with the bills belongs to the 535 people who in order to get a bill on his desk have to play an mind numbingly complex song and dance and then, all agree enough to make a bill.
435 members are in the House or representatives. 241 of those people from day one of Obama's term have openly said, they have ONE goal. Obstruction. If they can obstruct enough, they make the public assume since no bills are being signed and no progress is being made, it's the president's fault.
If you slept your way though high skool, then it's understandable that you grew up to be a clueless easily lead voter citizen.
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, the leaders and most every junior tea party member has openly said, their only goal is to deny the president a second term. They said that the day after he was elected.
So... you really don't rely on the president to do everything, a president actually does very little. Everything that gets done, or doesn't get done, is the result of the 535 people in the congress.
A president can introduce bills. Anyone can introduce a bill. By the time it runs though all the bullshit a bill has to, and it finally gets to the president's desk it's always far different than it started out to be.
And Obamacare is not "government run health care". That's a catch phrase republicans use to influence the weak minded and the stupid. The affordable health care act is health care industry regulation. If it were "government run health care" we'd all be better off by removing the profit incentive out of what should be a basic human right; health care.
Every other civilized nation on earth doesn't allow the free market to profiteer off of the illness of it's citizens. It says a lot about us that we allow it.
But back to the core mistake everyone seems to make because they slept in or cut to many high skool classes..... the president just signs bills, and occasionally introduces them. The 535 people in congress determine what bill he gets to sign into law.
A president has the power of Executive order, but if you study for 5 minutes what that actually is, you'll find that power to be fairly limited, and any EO can be overturned but the congress or the supreme court... or a new president. SO EO's are short term heavy handed tools to use when things just need done ASAP. They are much less "permanent" than a properly signed law.
Now, Mitt says he'll "get rid of planned parenthood" and that's a stupid statement, unless while I was asleep a president got the magic power to rid the earth of a private non profit org. He makes lots of claims about what he will do "the first day" that he as president will have no power to actually do.
He's an ass clown. Just like GWB, he's a little boy trying really hard to walk in daddy's shoes.
Mitt Romney made his fortune in two ways: Inheritance, and being a carpetbagger. He is super rich, he has bank accounts in offshore tax shelters. A tax dodging carpetbagger. He's one of these pussies who hid behind their religion to get out of service in Viet Nam, but had no problem protesting FOR the war. Quite a few of these vocal republicans dodged their service obligations. Mitt used the church to do it and spent his time knocking on doors in France... where they have never heard the good news, apparently. :roll:
Lets forget Mitt's a douchebag, lets assume for sake of argument he's a great guy. For that matter lets make him a democrat and a great guy running for office.
He's changed his mind so many times, even a democrat wouldnt vote for him. He was a pro life single payer liberal Governor but morphed into a pro life privatized health care teabagger. And he didn;t do it on the sly, he did it in public.... you can watch hours of video of him being everything a liberal democrat loves, then flip one issue at a time to be everything a teabagger beats off over.
Imagine for a few minutes how fast on whom he would turn once he's in office. MAYBE he's go back to being a liberal republican (remember those? we used to have those, back when government worked) or... he could become even more of a right wing teabagger stooge, and then you'll see what hell is.
His running mate is a worshipper of Any Rand, like most all teabaggers are. Ayn Rand was a sociopath. Ayn Rand was an evil little troll. Anyone who is a devote to her philosophy hasn't read it all or is just selfishly inhuman. if you really read all her crap and you dont gasp in horror at her philosophy, there is something seriously wrong with you.
But Ryan went from singing like a love sick fanboy about Rand to saying he just liked her to flatly denouncing her entirely and denying he ever actually said he liked her shit IN ONE WEEK.
I think he just beat off over the cliffs notes and didnt understand she was an atheist who hated religion and the church as much as she hated poor people.
On the other hand you could vote for the constitutional law professor who's been in office for 3.5 yrs already, who had a long list of minor steps forward under his belt despite the obstruction of 241 teabagger pandering parasites in the house. You know, the one who's not going to drag you and your daughters back t the 1950s praising Jesus every step of the way.
I'd tear into his stupid religion too but that would just be mean.