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Well said.  Unfortunately, the current administration was so aggressive in executive actions and discretion that it has set the bar for the Trump admin.  I expect to hear a lot of executive actions justified by 'Obama did it before us'.  You reap what you sow I guess.  Bush II stretched executive authority, and Obama ran with that hard.  [/quote]

I suppose Congressional dysfunction had nothing to do with Obama's use of executive action...

Our government needs to function.  If it doesn't function one way, it'll function another way.  But as Obama has discovered, courts trump the other two branches.  If Trump chooses to go forward with executive actions, he too will discover that.  [/quote]

Different PP.  I completely understand why Obama made the choices he did, but it doesn't mean that they would not have had potentially risky consequences.  The American system of government is designed to be very slow moving and to place high hurdles in front of doing anything.  One can argue that it's actually become outdated with regard to enabling modern governance.  There was always the risk that Congress could simply refuse to govern, and back in the 1780s when the Constitution was written that was not seen as the crisis it is today.

The fact that there was some[b] justification for Obama's actions does not change their consequence with respect to Constitutional checks and balances[/b].  More and more, I think it's a real question as to whether we need a new Constitutional convention.  That seems almost insane, but so does having a reality TV star with no governing experience as President.[/quote]

Why? The courts are set to review Obama's executive order on immigration.  That sounds like checks and balances in action.  Congress's inability to pass laws is its own dysfunction.  I don't know if we need a whole constitutional convention to resolve that. I mean what could a constitutional change do to force Congress to[b] be reasonable and legislate[/b]? [/quote]

You know. Not making new laws is in fact a reasonable choice. The idea that the President should make his own laws via executive order because the congress will not give him the laws he wants is an abuse of power. The congress by not saying yes said no.

Obama has essentially done what a child does when the child wants something and the parents don't give it to him. The child went around the parents and got what they wanted. When the parents see what the child did the child should get in trouble. [/quote]

Umm.  Immigration reform has been a big issue for years, decades even.  Obama waited years and years for Congress to do something, to do what they're supposed to.  Congress did nothing.  [/quote]

But they did do something. They chose NOT to act. That is a valid choice. You might not like that decision, but it is a valid one. 
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