In your example, it was the Congress who funded the procurement of those drones. And they also appropriated the money for the operations and maintenance of same. The latter activity is done annually and is accomplished line item by line item. They also fund the operation of the CIA and, yes, even the FBI (who put all those illegal wiretaps in place).

Whats more, if Congress decides to pull the funding for such activity, legally, it must all come to a screeching, grinding halt. And they have done so on numerous occasions in the past.

What’s more, while its called the “President’s Budget”, in reality, it’s just a long “wish list” of things the President would LIKE to do. However, unless and until the Congress actually allocates and then appropriates enough money for him or her to do it all with, it remains just that…a Presidential “wish list”.

And more than one President has been called on the carpet for spending money on things the Congress DIDN’T appropriate money for. Iran-Contra comes quickly to mind.

The truth is that , under our constitutional form of government, it’s the CONGRESS where the REAL governing power lies because THEY (and they alone) control the purse strings. And without continuing appropriations to underwrite our “made-up” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they, too, would quickly come to a screeching, grinding halt.

The bottom line here is that the President and his minions can “flap their gums” all day long in speech after speech, “pushing”, as you say, this or that “agenda”. But unless and until the Congress ALSO agrees with him and actually gives him the money to do it all with, his “agenda” goes nowhere.

The unkept promises don’t seem to include closing Gitmo, ending the Iraq war, and restoring Habeas Corpus, to name a few.

I do not believe you can prove this. I googled Special Forces in Iran and in the first four pages of URLs I found nothing dated since January 20, 2009 that even comes close to backing this up. I did find

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and…/article7136614.ece

which says that in May of this year Petraeus “authorized” reconnaissance to find military targets. It does NOT say that there are special forces troops there. It says they are authorized to go there.

“Teams of American special forces have been authorised to conduct spying missions intended to pave the way for a military strike on Iran in case President Obama orders one, US government sources have confirmed.

“The military units would penetrate Iranian territory to reconnoitre potential nuclear targets and make contact with friendly dissident groups, according to a secret directive written by General David Petraeus. The document’s existence was disclosed for the first time yesterday.”

Show us the proof that they are there, rather than just authorized to be there. If you cannot prove it retract it.

“It’s probably a shorter list to name the campaign promises kept to date. ZERO!”

Of course this is just plain not true.

Politifact.org’s synopsis of Obama’s promises kept, broken, etc. shows:

* Promise Kept 114

* Compromise 35

* Promise Broken 19

* Stalled 82

* In the Works 252

* Not yet rated 3

For those readers who are at all interested in the truth, please do your own research and do not rely on the unsupported (and unsupportable) sweeping statements that are all to often bandied about here at CHB.

The guy can’t be anything but a lying psycho path. His failure isn’t mine. I didn’t vote for him or the old man. And I warned everyone what would come if they voted for either major party. If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you still voted for evil. Maybe next time people will vote for good, but I doubt it. Too stupid and caught up in their left/right paradigm. And now we’re stuck in a fascist plutocracy that is quickly becoming a fascist military dictatorship. The writing is on the wall, will you bother to read it?

It’s probably a shorter list to name the campaign promises kept to date. ZERO!