Democrats too may acquiesce in Mr. Obama's action, as they have his other aggressive assertions of executive power. Yet what will they say when a Republican president decides that the tax rate on capital gains is a drag on economic growth and instructs the IRS not to enforce it?Cherrypicking the law... the scariest artifact of the Emperor Barack I administration.
And what of immigration reform? Why bother debating the details of a compromise if future presidents will feel free to disregard those parts of the statute that they don't like?
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Well, I guess Obama has gotten what no other POTUS in history has been able to get... a line item veto."Indeed.