Obama's Attempt to Limit AUMF

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President Obama as the Commander and Chief  has a lot of power after the President Bush enacted the Authorization for Use of Military Force also known as AUMF. This legislation practically gave the president and any president after him the power to use military force on terrorists without consulting the Congress extensively about the military force. This is dangerous for the people of the United States of America to give the president this much power. After Obama has seen how much power this legislation has given him he is now looking for a way to limit this power for the up coming president. 

Some say that this new legislative that Obama is trying to pass isn't limiting the power but making it bigger and even more dangerous than the AUMF. The Huffington Post article that is linked above writes that this new legislative is not helping to limit the AUMF, but is helping to broaden the power that the AUMF has. Also that the new legislative is making the same crucial mistakes the the AUMF made in 2001 and that the legislative will have no real power. The Defense One article agrees that the language in the new legislative is to broad and needs to be more specific. Also this article states that the Republicans think that these new bills have to may regulations onto them. The final conclusion is that Obama is either going to have to be far more specific in his new legislative or the legislative will still refuted by both sides.

Divided Government Good or Bad?

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Divided government is perceived as both good and bad, sometimes its bad things are more noticeable than its good characteristics. A divided government is when different political parties control the White House and the Congress. This has happened many times in United States history, and people have argued that it makes the government act better in a whole or worse.

When the government is divided it is typically known for being less productive as times before. This perspective on divided government makes it a very bad think. The government is not very efficient during these time periods and the people become frustrated for the government to pass any bills or laws. Typically a divided government is not liked from the majority of the public making it hard for a divided government to stay. This is a very obvious perspective on the possible issue of a divided government.

A very different perspective to look at a divided government is that it keeps the government loyal to the people that elected them, this is an obvious positive. The government is to consumed on trying to beat out the other political party that they do not want to do anything remotely wrong. This makes it very easy for the government to make consistently good choices for the people, and not making any bad choices. The goods of a divided government are not nearly as obvious as the bad's but are equally important.