> > And you're OK for a pseudo-Republican president trying to 
annihilate the 8
> > years in office of probably one of the finest presidents there ever 
was?
> 
> Obama was a dignified person and probably a nice guy, but I do not 
think of
> him as one of our finest presidents.

The Corruptocrats are caterwauling about "separation of powers" as if 
that was a holy mantra.  They didn't say a word when Obama announced 
that if (the Republicrook controlled) congress didn't pass his programs 
he would implement them by executive order.

In point of fact, the seeds of the destruction of the "separation of 
powers" doctrine were sown in the 1880s with the creation of 
the "Interstate Commerce Commission" to control the railroads' freight 
rates.  Tom Wilson continued the destruction of that doctrine when he 
created many federal bureaus to run the country, using the "emergency" 
of World War I as justification; when that war ended those bureaus 
stayed on - although some of them changed their names.  Roosevelt minor 
vastly expanded the bureaucracy and got his pet Supreme Court to rule 
that federal "regulations" applied to the whole country, not just 
within the executive branch
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