Domestic and Economic Policy

Executive orders and executive actions:  the president's executive order actually is not an executive order but an executive action.

The president's address on immigration: "Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger; we were strangers once too."  The line is Deuteronomy 10:19.

Here is what he said in 2006:

Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. Folks haven't been reading their bibles.

 Stages of the Policy Process

1. Initiation/Streams: Problems, Solutions, Politics
2. Estimation
3. Selection
4. Implementation and immigration
5. Evaluation
6. Termination

The centrality of economic policy in public opinion

(The tax system is more progressive than you may think.)