In last week’s budget standoff, the headlines had President Obama repeatedly “summoning” the speaker and the Senate majority leader to the White House. “Why,” my colleague David Boaz asked, “doesn’t the speaker ‘summon’ the president to what I think is the real seat of government?” It’s a good point: Whether or not you score the budget deal as a win for the GOP, the casual way the media describes the president’s role shows how dangerously far we’ve drifted toward one-branch rule.

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