Obama administration officials are now busy distancing themselves from a controversial draft memorandum outlining various ways to bypass Congress and administratively grant amnesty to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. But the leaked internal memo has struck a nerve in the body politic precisely because it is only the latest of a growing list of examples of the Obama White House seeking to circumvent the popular will.
For example, while hiding behind a misguided Supreme Court decision that gave it the power to declare carbon dioxide a “pollutant,” the Environmental Protection Agency has started what amounts to an end run around Congress with a major revision of the 1970 Clean Air Act. Millions of previously unregulated commercial facilities, including small office buildings, stores and commercial kitchens, will soon be ensnared in stifling regulations that Congress never authorized or approved.
