I don't give a shit about how scared Koch would be or what he thought of Giuliani's laugh.It is about as unanimous as the four prominent business leaders in Minnesota that Endorsed Obama.

However, Obama was making some sense in his speech at Columbia. He was talking some high ideals. As president someone can make all the proclamations they want to but it has to go through congress before it comes to be. One has to ask, will it ever pass? If it ever does will it have so many riders and earmarks on it that the original intent will be smothered with pork? Yeah, they flop down a 900 page bill on someone's desk on afternoon that has to voted on the next day.

The POTUS can give a great speech and say we are going to give $99 million dollars in aid to Zambonia to eradicate the boom boom fly but if Congress never appropriates it, it never happens but the president still gets the glory for saying it.

Speaking of pork, just how can a president eliminate it? The only way I can see it to bring back the line item veto. Clinton had that option for a while but Congress took it away. How'd that happen anyway?

I wish the American people could vote on things directly instead of having to go through their lobbyist influenced Congressman. That part of our system of government is arcane. It dates back to horse and buggy days and needs to be updated.