How Powerful Is The President?

Greenwald, Chait, and Jonathan Bernstein are in the middle of a three-way cage-match over the question. Chait calls Greenwald "a fanatic" for letting his "sense of betrayal in issue areas where Obama wields tremendous influence to bleed over into issue areas where he does not." Here's the end of Greenwald's response to Chait:

As I've acknowledged from the start, the President does have someconstraints in the area of domestic policy and will not always be ableto move Congress to do what he...