http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/203965-obama-looks-to-merge-trade-commerce-agencies
Obama is asking lawmakers to grant him a reorganizational power that would let him propose mergers that would save the government money. The House and Senate would then decide whether to approve his ideas in an up-or-down vote in 90 days.
The first government reorganization effort in decades, which comes in the first month of a reelection year, is intended to portray Obama as the one trying to make government smaller. By asking Congress to give him approval, Obama hopes to make it difficult for the legislature to reject his plan, as Republicans on Capitol Hill might then be the ones seen as blocking an effort to make government smaller and more efficient.
I think the article pegged Obama's motivation here, to portray himself as the one trying to make government smaller. And he wants to do it by eliminating government agencies. Do any of the GOP Presidential candidates want to do something similar? Yes, Ron Paul.
By trying to make himself look like Ron Paul, Obama telegraphs who he is really afraid of in 2012. Ron Paul is the one he's trying to emulate, because he knows the electorate wants exactly that kind of action. Romney can't speak convicingly on the subject, nor can any other GOP candidate except Dr. Paul.
Personally, I think we should make Obama run against the candidate he fears the most, and that's Ron Paul.
Who did he fear the most? I suspect it was Mr Cain...who would have carved him up in a debate situation. After that...it's probably Newt. Both are mostly gone now, we are going to be stuck with Mitt...who is average at debates, and probably NOT the kind of guy that most southerners can be charmed by. Consider the November election to be screwed up at this point, with the addition of six possible Republican senators as the only big positive. We will all sit and be entertained by a negative situation in DC until 2016. It's a sad prediction that I make but I suspect it's realistic.
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