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Politico Encourages Obama to Rule by Executive Order

December 20th, 2010 Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com

Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution has fallen so far that members of the Establishment media are encouraging Barack Obama to bypass Congress and rule through executive orders. The most recent encouragement came in the form of an article posted today on the inside-the-Beltway website Politico entitled “Obama 2.0: Reinventing a Presidency.” The authors, John F. Harris and James Hohmann, state that negotiating with the new Congress — elected by the largest electoral tidal wave since the 1930s — would prove inconvenient for the president and hamper his left-wing agenda, so he should ignore them and keep giving the American people hope-and-change, good-and-hard.
Harris and Hohmann write, “Six weeks of lame-duck legislating should be more than enough to convince President Barack Obama that two more years of this would be a drag.” Instead, “numerous veterans of previous White Houses and other experts” advise that Obama should be “discarding the Congress-focused strategy of the first two years and coming up with new and more creative ways to exercise power and set the national agenda.” In fact, the authors state, “Republican gains in Congress make it essential for him to use new avenues of power.”
When President Bush refused to remove all combat troops from Iraq after the 2006 midterms, the media insisted he was living “in a bubble,” but when the American heartland calls for less government and more responsibility, executive department diktats become “essential.”
These proposed avenues include executive orders, federal regulations, and “letting conservatives think they have achieved some of what they want”….
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