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You just did. Thanks.
As I said, liberals wrote 1,000 versions of this article during the Bush administration, and my guess is (too lazy to read Will's archived columns) Will was silent or supportive of the Unitary Executive theory and the nearly unchecked Commander in Chief powers asserted by Bush.
If we get an honest effort to test 30 years of more power vesting in the POTUS, great. But no one should pretend this started in January 2009.
When it started is not the issue - how it can be stopped or held to within reasonable limits is the issue. Simply because our congress critters (of either party) will not make/change the law to suit the current POTUS (of either party) does not make it OK to override the existing law. "Dreamy" immigration reform is not the law yet Obama pretends that it is. PPACA contained fixed implementation phase dates yet since Obama preferred that they be changed and simply did so.