Miffed by Congress’ refusal to pass his nearly $500 billion jobs bill last fall, President Obama vowed to bypass the legislature and use executive actions to accomplish his agenda. In the months since then, however, he’s had little to show for his efforts.
Politico reports:
"We can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job," [Obama] said in Las Vegas in October. "Where they won’t act, I will."
But five months and almost three dozen announcements later, a closer look at the We Can’t Wait program shows just how hamstrung the president has been in acting on his own to provide expansive or quick relief to struggling Americans.
Some initiatives involve little more than a new website, a pilot program or a brochure. Others are basically repackaged announcements of programs already well under way. Yet others are works in progress, waiting on the government bureaucracy to catch up with the urgency of Obama’s "we can’t wait" mantra.