"President Obama’s executive power-grab this week — making four 'recess' appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess — is a mark not of his strength, but of his relative weakness. He is asserting an authority he does not possess through the Constitution because he has precious little personal authority left to assert.

He had it and he lost it, and he can’t figure out how to get it back — so he’s just going to take it.

'When Congress refuses to act, and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them,' Obama said Wednesday as he trumpeted his installation of Richard Cordray as head of his new consumer-activism bureau.

This is rhetoric designed to thrill liberals and Democrats, who (like all partisans and ideologues) love what they take to be the 'good fight,' and don’t particularly care how it’s waged. That’s true even if they spent eight years screaming about supposed unconstitutional actions on the part of the Bush administration, every one of which had a far firmer foundation in constitutional law than Obama’s unprecedented action this week."

When you've lost your ability to govern legitamitely, when you've become irrevalent in political process, what's the next step? 

Do whatever you want, change the rules, ignore the Constitution.

Thank God there's only one more year of this left. (I hope that three-letter word doesn't offend anybody)