“Tell me if I am wrong (As an Aussie I don’t know everything about your political system)but won’t it be easier to undo these things that he has done by going around congress than it would be had he followed the correct political procedure. Just looking for a silver lining in what are otherwise dark political clouds.
Mel”
I’m as sour as I could possibly be on what Americans have done to a fine Republic. So, my answer to your question is: Yes, but... where the qualifier is that there has to be political will to undo what’s been done. The opposition party, (Republicans), is filled with career politicians who want nothing more than to remain employed. If there is any political gain to keeping Obama’s moves in place, there will be no roll back.
If, somehow, by a miracle, or a plague that wipes out the existing media and political elite, and magically imparts the ability to think onto the American public, yep, things could change.
Which is precisely why we need to make it nearly impossible to be a "career politician". Start with a combination of term limits and forbidding them to exempt themselves from any law they pass; add strictly enforced penalties for any degree of political corruption.
Yes, sadly your Republican opposition is quite weak. They ought to be saying that they will undo anything he has by Presidential fiat. That would be the minimum I would expect from a principled politician. However I think they might be rubbing their hands together in glee thinking of how they can use the same power to get things done themselves. Obama and the Demonrats may be setting a precedent that they regret. The ends do not justify the means, however, when they circumvent the appropriate political process.
Mel