Whatever happened to the imperial presidency?

This is my new American Thinker post.
 

 President Obama keeps pushing the envelope on executive powers and the left is largely silent.  

Where are all of those "imperial presidency" Democrats who used to complain about President Bush?  I guess that they must be hiding trying to figure out how they are going to explain their intellectual dishonesty.

Yes, they must be hiding with all of those liberals who told us that Guantanamo recruited terrorists or that drones were turning off the locals.

President Obama got the US involved in a war in Libya by going to the UN and not the US Congress.  I'm all for giving the president the to flexibility to react to emergencies but Libya was a preemptive war.   He had time to ask Congress for a resolution.

Second, he went around Congress and offered "special immigration status" to the "dreamers".  I happen to be one of those who thinks that a special arrangement should be made for these young dreamers but it should pass Congress as the Constitution intended it.

 
Third, he appointed 3 people to the NLRB.or the now famous recess appointments.  He did this because he knew that these candidates would not pass Congress.   Fourth,  he appointed Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,  Again, no role for Congress.

A day ago, a Court determined that Obama had exceeded his authority.  It found the appointments unconstitutional.

 
I like the Court's decision.  It is not final and could end up in the Supreme Court.  Nevertheless, the message was sent and  hopefully received at the White House.

Most important, where are the liberals?  Where are the marches?  It would be nice to see a liberal stand up and be intellectually honest.
 

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Pres BO blames Limbaugh & Fox News because Senate Democrats won't pass his gun control bill

Have we not seen this movie before?  Pres BO goes after Rush Limbaugh and Fox News:

'Obama also said one of the biggest factors in the gun-control debate will be how it is shaped by the media.
“If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” he said. “I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.”"


This is outrageous.

First, the statement is so un-presidential.

Second, why doesn't Pres BO talk about the extreme on his side of the aisle?  For example, Roe v Wade?

Third, it is an attack on our free press.  Wonder how Allan Colmes and Juan Williams feel about that?

Fourth, doesn't Pres BO have a majority in the US Senate?  Didn't I just hear that Majority Leader Reid won't be supporting Pres BO's gun proposals?

Anyway, this is pathetic and un-presidential.  On second thought, Pres BO is pathetic and un-presidential.

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