Obama's Executive Power Trip

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Tuesday, June 21, 2016

We have transitioned away from the traditional three branches of government — the legislative, the executive, and the judicial — to a new form under President Obama

Gary Bauer, President Reagan's senior policy advisor, told me in a recent interview for the Truths That Transform television program: "For the last seven years we've had an administration in Washington that believes the three branches of government are the president, his pen, and his telephone."

President Obama said famously, "I've got a pen and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward."

What he means by that is that if he does not like the actions of Congress, if they don't approve of his agenda, then he will pass by legislative fiat his own agenda.

Many critics of the president today feel he has crossed the line of abusing power.