M Graham your comment about the budget is not exactly right. We have had budgets, just not his. By law the President must submit a budget every year and the White House did submit them. Of course they were generally late. The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 requires the President to submit his budget by the first Monday of February. In the 90 years since 1923, President Obama is the only President to miss the deadline two years in a row.  Actually he is the only President to miss the deadline in three of the four years of a term.  And, he holds the record for the longest delay in submitting a budget (98 days). So he broke the law and since nobody paid any attention to them anyway there was really no excuse for being late. He could have just wrote down a number on a napkin.