President Obama is an undemocratic tyrant, seizing powers clearly granted by our Founding Fathers to Congress.
Usually you hear such accusations from the right. But lately they are, somewhat disorientingly, coming from the left. It's like Opposite Day.
As in the past, the grandstanding about procedural impropriety and secretive, unconstitutional power-grabs is disingenuous. Die-hard liberals, like die-hard conservatives before them, are hiding behind tenuous constitutional complaints to obstruct a policy outcome they find distasteful.
The right's claims about unconstitutional power-grabs usually involve immigration and health insurance. For the left, the cri de coeur is trade.
Here's the background: The Constitution indeed says Congress has sole authority to regulate international trade. But it's difficult for U.S. trade representatives to make credible offers if every deal goes back to Washington to get picked apart, rewritten by hundreds of legislators and turned into a completely different agreement.
Usually you hear such accusations from the right. But lately they are, somewhat disorientingly, coming from the left. It's like Opposite Day.
As in the past, the grandstanding about procedural impropriety and secretive, unconstitutional power-grabs is disingenuous. Die-hard liberals, like die-hard conservatives before them, are hiding behind tenuous constitutional complaints to obstruct a policy outcome they find distasteful.
The right's claims about unconstitutional power-grabs usually involve immigration and health insurance. For the left, the cri de coeur is trade.
Here's the background: The Constitution indeed says Congress has sole authority to regulate international trade. But it's difficult for U.S. trade representatives to make credible offers if every deal goes back to Washington to get picked apart, rewritten by hundreds of legislators and turned into a completely different agreement.
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