And the Congress, which still consists of a majority of his own party, lets him get away with it and continues to fund him. That's not the same as "ruling by decree," because the Congress could stop him if they wanted to do so, by turning off the money. Appropriation bills still have to originate in the House of Representatives, last time I looked.
And apparently the country is cowed, because by standards that would impeach a president for fudging over sex with an intern, this guy and his saturnine veep should both already be so gone we'd forget they ever held office.
And if the President was of the opposite party as the one controlling Congress, you're right that they would have been impeached. They wouldn't have been removed from office, however, as neither party has held the necessary two-thirds majority to do so for a while. It's simply not that easy to remove a President from office; that's why it has never happened. The very fact that the USA is split approximately 50-50 right now makes such action impossible.
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And if the President was of the opposite party as the one controlling Congress, you're right that they would have been impeached. They wouldn't have been removed from office, however, as neither party has held the necessary two-thirds majority to do so for a while. It's simply not that easy to remove a President from office; that's why it has never happened. The very fact that the USA is split approximately 50-50 right now makes such action impossible.