Promises will be broken, again

President Obama will give his last “State of the Union” address this week (Jan. 12) and I think he will lay out his plans for his last year in o ce. Did I say plans? I mean demands. ere still won’t be any pledges about working with Congress to get necessary laws passed. I think there will be promises made, and of course they will need to bypass Congress and sign executive actions when they are needed. ese Congressmen and women were voted in by the common people; therefore, they are not special enough for Obama to be taking their advice. From my understanding, there will be an empty chair symbolic of the loss of lives from gun violence close to the podium. Just where is the empty chair going to be placed for the soldiers and government agents that were killed because of the trained leadership was red by Obama? ey were no longer needed because they disagreed with the way Obama was leaning. Is it too much to ask if a member of the legislative part of government to enter a bill revoking all of Obama’s executive actions and appointments that require congressional approval?

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