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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
What about executive orders? There general enforcements of existing laws. Its the "execution" of the Executive branch. The presidency is a powerful office, but its not nearly as powerful as it appears.
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Well, no. Executive Orders essentially act as laws until they're either deemed by the Supreme Court to be complicit with existing legislation (which requires someone to take the Executive Order to court) or to be ratified/denied by both houses of Congress in a relevant bill (by my understanding) each of which takes time. So although functionally in recent times there hasn't been a problem that doesn't mean the potential doesn't exist. There's also the subject of the wide rein of power that can be exerted by cabinet officials (such as this recent climate change being a health issue and the openings that creates for Obama without having to go through Congress) although that's equally available to the Parliamentary system.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
You know I'm not very savvy when it comes to Parliament but what you're describing right here sounds horrifying.
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This is irrelevant to the Parliamentary system and could equally exist in a Presidential state (although with slight alterations but nothing significant). Parliamentary system essentially means that the leading executive figure is selected from the majority party in whichever house is deemed to be preferential (often lower, obviously irrelevant to a unicameral system), rather than separately elected, and generally maintains a presence in both the executive and legislative branches of Government.