The role of the President is always evolving, and I am not sure it’s evolving in a positive way. During the years of Taft and Jefferson the role of the President consisted of managing the executive branch and being the Commander and Chief. Today the role of the President has been defined as “paying your mortgage off,” achieving gender equality in the work place, creating blue collar jobs, and participating in your Christmas nativity scene.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it ever read that the role of the executive branch is to do anything of these things. However, I’ve always lobbied for a 28th Amendment that requires all “Holiday” nativities scenes to have the seated President depicted in the form of a mule for production that year. The Constitution clearly states that the President shall be the Commander in Chief, hold the power to make treaties, appoint ambassadors, appoint Supreme Court judges, and all other Officers of the United States. That’s it, although you wouldn’t believe me from watching the debates this year.
Watching the debates was like interviewing someone for a teaching position and having that job candidate start bragging about their cooking ability. It is embarrassing that in a town hall debate Presidential candidates are requested to outline their plan to shrink the gender pay gap. There is absolutely nothing the President can or will do for the gender pay gap. I’m sorry to all my feminist readers but you will have to take that fight to Congress. There are things the Presidents do have the power to do and I wish these were debate subjects.
I am eagerly awaiting the “Presidential Appointment Debate.” This is a debate created by myself, narrated by Cris Collinsworth, and modeled after the NFL Draft. Each of the candidates announce their picks for each office and hands the bureaucratic nominee a campaign jersey. We go around until the boards are filled and conclude our coverage. On a side note, Rick Perry is thankful for the exclusion of the “Appointment Debate” from the primary schedule this year because his memorized candidates list wouldn’t extend beyond his pick for the Supreme Court. Ba Dum Tsssh!
The only debate that actually covered a President’s constitutional duties was the last debate, the foreign policy debate. Even in that debate somehow we got talking about education and jobs. It’s sad I know. Someone needs to “fact check” the whole process and get the candidates talking about the job their interviewing for. However, Candy Crowley only fact checks to aide White House cover ups, it’s a shame I know.
If the George Washington observed our Presidential election process today we wouldn’t just get a smile out of him, we would get a laugh so hard his wooden teeth would have to be scooped out of the Potomac.
The Conservative Spoon 