James Madison And Founders Preferred Gridlocked Government

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You know who’s responsible for the gridlock? James Madison and the rest of the boys at the Constitutional Convention.
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Obama has shown a marked absence of self-restraint when it comes to pursuing his political and social goals. He says over and over that the Constitution forbids him to grant amnesty on his own — he’s not an emperor, you know! Then he goes ahead and does it. He changes the health-care law all on his own. He goes around Congress to a friendlier body, namely the U.N. (Obama is a U.N. man if ever there was one.)
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a president should not do things merely because he can. Andy Warhol said, “Art is what you can get away with.” Barack Obama’s philosophy seems to be, “The presidency is what you can get away with.”



http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/421616/problem-presidential-ego-jay-nordlinger

The Problem of Presidential Ego
by JAY NORDLINGER

July 26, 2015 12:56 PM

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