When Obama can get away with deploying his executive power to accomplish his agenda, he does so without pause or hesitation, constitutional niceties such as checks-and-balances be damned.
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His many power grabs are worthy of a book. But below are four of the truly unprecedented ones, two that expand the war state and two that expand the regulatory state.
- War-making powers
- Civil liberties
- Legislating through bureaucrats
- Killing the auto industry through regulatory fiat
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