Almost 100 years of history has shown that Republicans are not competent and cannot be trusted with the helm of power. In the 20s, the Republican Herbert Hoover allowed a corrupt stock market to start the process that led to the Great Depression.
He took little action to stop the plunge and the nation suffered as it never has before or since until FDR led the U.S. economy to be the greatest on earth for 60 years.
In the 60s and 70s, Richard Nixon used the offices of the government to attack his enemies, he lied about a war, broke laws, and resigned in disgrace before he could be impeached. It took the honor of Jimmy Carter to restore pride and honor to the office of the president.
In the 80s, Ronald Reagan broke the laws of the nation by trading arms for hostages and using the money to help rebels in South America. Together, with George Bush Sr., they grew the national debt to enormous proportions.
It took Bill Clinton to save the economy and he left the nation with a surplus and a healthy economy. The current administration has damaged the economy and left a mess of our democracy in ways that are too many to mention.
We can only hope Obama can do what all the other Democratic presidents have done, and that is to take the garbage the Republicans have left us and try to save our nation.
There you go again, This country is not a dictatorship..The pres is not in the position to do any of what you claim..The congress and the House also have a say, remember civics class, or gov't class, apparently not.
Clinton gutted the intel services and vetoed the elimination of Bin Laden..for which he DID have the control, so Clinton bears a lot of the resposibilty for (11 He got caught with his pecker out and when asked if he'd had sex with ML he first asked what the definition of "is" is.. then when asked again if he'd had sex with her..attempted to redefine the term "sex". Oh, he TRIED to redefine the Constitution as well, claiming that supposed "assualt weapons:ie civilian versions of mil weapons were more powerful than other rifles of the same caliber..Also intimated that the average citizen is too dumb to handle firearms, and besides, why do civs need guns when LEO does such a wonderful job..
Clinton deregulated the banking industry and forced them to lower their lending standards which has led to the shit storm we find ourselves in. Now Obama has appointed an avowed Socialist to a non conformation post over all things "green" and climatic. Carol B has stated that what is neede is a "world Gov't" where the countries (us) who DO more will give away all that isn't "needed" Now, who is to decide that? Also, she wants to regulate every aspect of manufacturing with an eye to totally eliminate green house gases. While i agree that GHG need to be brought way down, with her idealistic approach the job loss rate will quadruple as companies move to places where there are NO GHG laws.How will that help us.. Oh, by the way, what have the dems done in the last 2 years< When the "promisec" big changes now that they had the majority? Squat is what they've done.
Also, what unilateral powers does the Pres have? Since you "know" that all those rep were to blame, what could any of them done on their own ?
It also took Reagan to get the hostages back from Iran, By your attitude, you'd have left them there right. Carter could have gottenthem back, but he chickened out. None of them would have been taken , if Carter had had the balls to allow the Marine guards to do their jobs and protect US soil. He gave those people away..Reagan got them back..But I suppose to socialist a few lives don't matter.
... That was tongue-in-cheek, right? I mean, so far ... people HAVE stopped trying to crash planes into our buildings, and as far as I know, there hasn't been any Anthrax attacks at all. 
