re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Honestly, it scares the Hell out of me. But I’ve come to the conclusion that the use of executive orders has gone too far and that it had gone too far before Obama took office. The powers of the president need to be dialed back a bit and some of its cases of rule-making need to be restored to the Congress, even if the Congress does not act on them.

On the substantive point relating to domestic federal agencies, consider the EPA. It has a mandate from Congress to deal with environmental issues, and a grant of substantive rule making authority to deal with details that Congress frankly shouldn’t be dealing with.

What it is about this basic model that really needs to be changed?