Subject: Re: Tyranny
Yet your side would have the President reduced to function as a mere order taker for Congressional spending whims.

As albaby has explained -exhaustively-, POTUS has a large influence on priorities. And, while he didn't mention it, POTUS also has the veto.

That's how the Constitution is structured. They didn't want a king, so they didn't give us a king. Congress has more granular representation (i.e. the numerous congressional districts), and -supposedly- better represents the people. So that's where a lot of the power resides. At least that is how it was designed.