Take off your fuhrerprinzip glasses and look again. The administration is much more than just Obama and they will do pretty much whatever they feel they can get away with. Obama and the administration has already involved the U.S. government in an executive branch instituted war in Libya in contradiction of the plain text of the Constition reserving that function to Congress. They've merely rationalized the lawlessness by playing semantic games. What won't politicians do? None of them recognize any limits whatsoever on the power of government save for immediate political expedience. I don't know what it is in which you are grounding your faith in restraint. I agree that it is a matter of conjecture, of necessity. Who really knows to what audacity an ambitious pol will stoop before he does so? Nevertheless, I haven't seen Obama's supposed excellence as a Constitutional scholar slow him down much to this point.
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Date: 11/8/11 19:16 (UTC)