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Executive Orders Reveal Executive Weakness

By Ashton Ellis
Tuesday, February 16 2010

It is the common fate of presidents to learn that occupying the most powerful office in the world amounts to substantially less than the power to change it. Barack Obama is no different. And like his predecessors, his place in history will be judged by how he copes with this reality. So far, he is falling far short of the greatness he seeks. After a year’s worth of failure to get congressional action on anything other than spending bills, the president’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, announced recently that the Obama Administration is retreating to the last…

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