"There are illigitement means by which the President may influence the action of congress. He may bargain with members, not only with regard to appointments, but also with regard to legislative measures. He may use his local patronage to assist members to get or retain seats. . . . He may also overbear Congress by arbitrary acts which ignore the laws or virtually override them. He may even substitute his own orders for acts of Congress which he wants but cannot get. Such things are not only deeply immoral, they are destructive of the fundimental understandings of constitutional government and, therefore, of constitutional government itself. . . . No honorable man includes such agencies in a sober exposition of the Constitution or allows himself to think of them when he speaks of the influences of life. . ."
-Woodrow Wilson, American Progressivism
Does this sound like stuff President Obama has done and would do? I think it does.
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I notice it's written by Woodrow Wilson. Sort of a reverse psychology list of things to do if you want to ruin the constitutional balance of powers.
Very much so.
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