Commentary

Obama’s Tyrannical Tendencies

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, January 05 2012

For years now I’ve warned that Barack Obama gives evidence of disturbingly authoritarian tendencies. Wednesday’s ferociously unconstitutional “recess appointments” of three members of the National Labor Relations Board and a new director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were just the latest in a long line of abusive expansions of raw executive power. On multiple levels, the recess appointments make a mockery of the constitutional construct. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution requires the “advice and consent of the Senate” for major executive…

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