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• 10 Oct 08
  

  Levy Rivers
  • The politics aren’t the issue, here; this sentence is: “Mr Bush liked to think of himself as a CEO at the head of a government machine rather than as a politician in a town of politicians.”
  • It is true that many of us – including many CEOs – do view (or wish to see) the top boss as possessed of the degree of complete, unchallenged authority and control over a mechanism that merely awaits commands that
  • The president is indeed a politician obliged to work things out with other politicians. Some of those are ambitious and immensely capable members of his or her own “organization,” the executive branch. Significantly, others are members of another branch of government, the legislative, which presumably deliberates and produces the legislation which the president is charged with executing.
  • On the one hand, you have a legislature directly representing the people and constituted specifically to determine and give direction to the actions of the government – much like a board of directors. On the other, you have an executive which gives expression to that direction.

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