Shift On Executive Powers Let Obama Bypass Congress

To begin with, Obama didn't enter office with "divided government"; he had a decisive victory, a clear mandate and a filibuster-proof Congress.  Obama chose not to any of it to get through the policies he was elected to install.

Obama hasn't been skittish at all about using executive power from day one to further the Bush-Cheney policies of the unitary executive and erosion of citizens' Constitutional rights and protections.
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