QUAYLE: Obama's imperial presidency - Washington Times
In November 2010, I was sent to Congress on a wave of discontent with President Obama and his hyperpartisan, hard-left agenda. With this clear repudiation behind him and a Republican House majority suddenly standing before him, Mr. Obama was handed an opportunity to adjust course and reclaim the confidence of the American electorate. Instead, he took a different approach: If you can’t lead ‘em, ignore ‘em. President Obama set himself against the expressed will of the American people and resolved to end-run and overrun their elected representatives. So began the imperial presidency.
As a conservative freshman in Congress, one expects policy disagreements with a liberal president. I also expected a productive, if sometimes pitched, exchange of ideas between the legislative and executive branches. What happened instead was an all-out executive power play - a rejection of substantive, democratic dialogue with his colleagues on the other side of the aisle in a co-equal branch of government.
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