Pundits can talk all they want about the President being “more aggressive” in his State of the Union address and report on how he won’t be willing to be passive when faced with Republican opposition, but the truth is that Republicans control Congress.
Most in the GOP will have little interest in cutting deals with the President. The odds of passing major legislation are slim.
Even if the President fights tooth and nail, the nation won’t see another New Deal or Great Society in the coming years. As a number of experts have explained, he can continue to use executive power, but that, too, is limited in terms of what he can achieve on the domestic front. Executive power only applies to a limited number of changes within existing law, and these decisions can be overturned by the next president.
Yet there is something that the President can focus on in the coming months to significantly strengthen his long-term impact on the nation: Help Democrats do well in the 2016 election.
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