re: #7 Simply Sarah

I’ll be honest. I didn’t like a lot of this under Bush and I don’t much like it now under Obama. Now, I’m not saying that I can’t understand why he’s doing it and obviously much of the precedent has been set already, but that doesn’t remove my longer term worry about more and more power being concentrated into the executive. It’s also ridiculous we’re in this situation to start with.

Good point. A general rule about presidents is that they are loath to give up powers claimed by their predecessors. Part of it is human nature, and part I suppose is just “good politics”, but it always pisses off the other side until they get back in power. Very unlikely that either Romney or second term Obama will give up any of the powers claimed over recent years by the executive. Congress often does little pushback because their party’s guy is in the WH.