The Presidency: With a new president much loathed by the mainstream media and progressive elites, it shouldn't be very long until we start hearing about the dangers of the "imperial presidency." Where were they, we wonder, during the Obama years?
It's quite an irony that the one whom many on the left said they couldn't stomach as president should become president and inherit a whole panoply of new presidential powers that President Obama used and no one other than conservatives objected to. Because now, a President Trump can use the same powers.
As Damon Root of Reason magazine has noted, candidate Barack Obama in 2007 professed deep concern about the expansion of executive power under President Bush, and vowed to be very different. "The president is not above the law,"...
...The left enthusiastically embraced Obama's use of extraordinary presidential powers because, hey, "elections have consequences," "the ends justify the means," and, as Obama himself once so eloquently put it, "I won."
They may now live to regret that. President-elect Trump will enter office with an extensive list of things to do — and, perhaps, equally important, to undo, including much of Obama's questionable agenda from eight years. Democrats in Congress will no doubt fight a rear-guard action to keep Trump from acting without congressional authority. Expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth. And no doubt, Trump will remind them: "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."
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