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Thursday, October 2, 2014

George Will: President Obama vs. Congress


"In his address about the Islamic State (which did not mention Khorasan, the asserted imminent threat that supposedly justified acting without Congress), Obama spoke to the public, not to the public’s institutional embodiment, Congress, whose support he said would be 'welcome,' implying that it is unnecessary... Obama is demonstrating in foreign policy what he has redundantly demonstrated in domestic policy—a supine Congress is superfluous to governance."

Are Congressional term limits the answer? Here is the link to the full article.

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