How Should President Bush Fix the Economy in the next 46 Days?

Lots of liberal websites have posts along the lines of this, which imply that George W. Bush should be fixing the economy in the 46 days until Barack Obama is inaugurated. My question for these people is: what exactly is he supposed to be doing? Buying stock? Lowering interest rates? Creating/expanding government jobs programs that will take affect yesterday?

The point is that there is nothing George Bush can do in the next 46 days to change the economy. For one thing, Congress isn't going to send him any legislation because they, too, are waiting for Teh One's ascendency. Secondly, despite what the tinfoil hat crowd thinks, the president, even George Bush, is not all powerful and can't change the economy by himself.

Of course, the carping that Bush should be "doing something" about the economy is just the moonbatty way of saying they don't like him doing things that presidents can do when Congress is doing nothing: namely, changing agency regulations and issuing executive orders. Liberals don't like these things--at least, for the next 46 days--because it means the president can do things that help businesses and circumvent the hundreds of rules liberals like to tie business up with.

So, the next time you read a bit o' crap about how President Bush should be "doing something" about the economy, just remember which party is actually in charge of producing legislation.