Turley is a big lib, to be sure. But he’s fair-minded more so than a lot of them. On certain issues he is more on the conservative side of matters. The principle of separation of powers is one of them.
So where he’s saying it is a bitter pill to swallow, he means it’s bitter for the 0bama regime and for anyone demanding that 0bama’s decrees must be followed without question.
Maybe so, but that is not clear from the sentence in question.