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Oh, if only i could be president and congress, too, just for ten minutes.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Oh, If Only I Could Be President

Theodore Roosevelt
Oh, if only i could be president and congress, too, just for ten minutes.
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Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and congress is full of people with human weaknesses. and so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of congress in order to pass his agenda. this time it's the other way around. donald trump does not have much of an agenda. congress burns with this intense republican agenda and so does congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.
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Would a minute have mattered? no, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. three minutes, even. you could go to five minutes, perhaps. but that was just it. if you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. so that was that. six o'clock, prompt. every day. read to young sam. no excuses. he'd promised himself that. no excuses. no excuses at all. once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.
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I will continue to fight for legislation that forces congress to read the bills! i will fight for a vote on my bill that calls for a waiting period for each page of legislation. i will continue to object when congress sticks special interest riders on bills in the dead of night! and if congress refuses to obey its own rules, if congress refuses to pass a budget, if congress refuses to read the bills, then i say: sweep the place clean. limit their terms and send them home!
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