David Harsanyi writes,
It takes some nuclear-powered audacity for Barack Obama, of all people, to whine about unilateral governance. The only reason Donald Trump was able to “unilaterally” withdraw from any international agreement was that the previous president had enlisted the nation in said agreement without the consent of Congress. The Paris Accord is allegedly the most critical international agreement ever forged by mankind, and yet it wasn’t quite important enough to be subjected to genuine national debate or the checks and balances of American government.
When first joining the Paris agreement, Obama noted that global warming “does not pause for partisan gridlock.” Or, in other words, the former president offered one of his numerous rationalizations for a historic slew of executive abuses. Obama didn’t merely ignore the limitations of his office, he popularized and normalized the notion that executive overreach was acceptable if the president claimed there was moral imperative to act. And Obama didn’t simply pretend that every issue was an existential threat — now a mainstay of Democratic Party politics — he openly bragged about working around the lawmaking branch of government that refused to accede to his demands. He continues to make that destructive argument on foreign soil.
Read more here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/the-constitution-just-keeps-frustrating-obama-and-the-dems/
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