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Re: Obama's Executive Order
I think that is not as clear as some on both sides want to believe. The waters on this issue have long ago been muddied by one president after another - and that includes both parties when they hold the White House. And the reaction among members of Congress is often NOT based on a strict reading of the constitution but what is politically expedient or popular at the time.
Things have changed and have been in constant change for a long time. And now it seems that everybody who occupies the White House does it and everyone else stands by and lets it happen - sometimes even facilitating and encouraging it as the only way to get things done given the normal logjam that has become Congress. In a way it reminds me of the history of prostitution in the Old West. There used to be a term for a woman who would perform certain actions that others were leary of - she was called A French whore. And today it is so run of them mill and accepted as normal that not a single woman in that profession would argue the point.
I think that is what has happened during the rise of the imperial presidency going back to the last century.
He doesn't have the authority to legislate.
Good thing he hasn't legislated.
I think that is not as clear as some on both sides want to believe. The waters on this issue have long ago been muddied by one president after another - and that includes both parties when they hold the White House. And the reaction among members of Congress is often NOT based on a strict reading of the constitution but what is politically expedient or popular at the time.
Things have changed and have been in constant change for a long time. And now it seems that everybody who occupies the White House does it and everyone else stands by and lets it happen - sometimes even facilitating and encouraging it as the only way to get things done given the normal logjam that has become Congress. In a way it reminds me of the history of prostitution in the Old West. There used to be a term for a woman who would perform certain actions that others were leary of - she was called A French whore. And today it is so run of them mill and accepted as normal that not a single woman in that profession would argue the point.
I think that is what has happened during the rise of the imperial presidency going back to the last century.