Obama is exploiting that perniciousness now, to remind congressmen that they are eating out of his hand themselves -- how dare they deny succor to his supplicants, or as Barky likes to call it on the campaign trail, "GITTIN' the People some HE'P!!!"
Mark of a dictator. Caesar did it, Hitler did it. "Here - -here is something for you. Eat out of my hand. Be my client. Admit your limitations. Submit."
Do you know any of the details? Does this EO give them more or less than they would have gotten under the Continuing Appropriations Legislation passed in Sep 2012? I haven’t dug through all the details on this.
Constitutional is one thing and USC is another. So until it is taken into the judicial system for clarification it’s going to go on much as it has in the past through previous Presidents.