... from the Democrat playbook of double-standards ... "Rules for thee, but not for me" ...
"For the past six years, the media has lionized Barack Obama for his increasing autocratic acts in pushing executive power to its limits - or past them - rather than compromise with Republicans in control of Congress. 'I've got a pen, and I've got a phone,' Obama declared, 'and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.' Despite serious rebukes by courts over his attempts to bypass the Senate on recess appointments and flat-out violate the law on immigration, the media has always cast Republicans as villains for frustrating Obama's agenda rather than focus on his abuses of executive authority.
Suddenly, though, an epiphany has begun to dawn on the media. Pens and phones are old and busted, and checks and balances are the new hotness. How else is one to read this primer from the Los Angeles Times describing all the ways in which Congress and the law limit Donald Trump's authority after January 20th?" ...
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/11/11/first-fruits-of-the-trump-era-strange-new-respect-for-federalism/
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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