President Barack Obama is planning to bypass congressional Republicans with a surge of executive actions and orders on issues like voting rights, health care, job creation, the economy, climate change and immigration.

And this time, he really, really, really means it. Really.
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“I have to figure out what I can do outside of Congress through executive actions,” Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus earlier this month, according to Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.).

“He’s very ready to use his executive powers whenever possible,” said Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) who heard Obama discuss the new approach at a meeting of the Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus to the White House last week.
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Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), said that Obama’s executive strategy isn’t just a power-grab, but clearly headed for failure. Republicans can try to block or reverse some of what Obama does through the appropriations process, and lawmakers are already putting forward bills to limit executive authority on regulations and Environmental Protection Agency directives.

“The president won’t be able to ‘go around’ the U.S. Constitution, which requires him to work with the Congress that the American people elected,” Steel said. “He should not — and, I expect, cannot — impose job-killing policies like a national energy tax or more Washington red tape by fiat.”
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White House aides and Obama advisers insist they’re just dealing with the reality that Republicans in the House and Senate have created —and that the president’s not going to “sit around and twiddle my thumbs,” as he told the New York Times over the weekend.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/ob...47.html?hp=t3_3

Obama has always had a hard time understanding the executive office of the presidency does not come with a throne..

Zitat

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Obama has always had a hard time understanding the executive office of the presidency does not come with a throne..

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Maybe not a throne, but it does have a sink. Zero should check with Xlinton to find out where it is.