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Exciting project from @theprospect: chronicle actions the next President already has the authority to take that can make a meaningful impact in people’s lives. It’s a very long list! prospect.org/day-one-agenda…
A “strain of liberal thought defended [Obama] by insisting that presidents just weren’t that powerful.” But “a president willing to use the laws already passed to their fullest potential” can do quite a lot, as @ddayen explains. 
“Democrats like to take control; doing something useful while in control has been a different proposition...Too many Democrats still live in a perpetual defensive crouch, afraid to make policy for fear that somebody might not like it. They crave approval rather than progress.”
This series will be a must-read for understanding both the Democratic candidates’ agendas and how politics works in general. It will also be a very useful resource when corporate Democrats wrongly insist that Congress is an insurmountable obstacle to real change.
