President – or is it King? – Barack Obama asked his Cabinet for new ways to violate the Constitution Tuesday.
At a White House meeting Obama asked his Cabinet to help him find more “creative” ways to use his executive powers, The Hill reported.
“You’ve already seen the power of some of our executive actions making a real difference for ordinary families,” Obama said. “We’re going to have to be creative about how we can make real progress.”
Recently Obama has taken executive action on immigration, the minimum wage for federal contractors, student loans, family leave benefits for same-sex couples, and Obamacare on multiple occasions. House Speaker John Boehner has threatened a lawsuit against the president for this magnanimous use of power and, in response, Obama has spent recent interviews flaunting his disregard for Congress’s authority.
This recent escalation has also led to multiple comparisons of Obama’s presidency to a monarchy.
Former top Bush aid Karl Rove likened Obama to an imperial president on Fox News Wednesday morning, stating that it was the opposite of what the framers of the Constitution would have wanted.
“They did not want a king,” he said. “They didn’t want King George III, and they certainly didn’t want King Barack No. 1.”
Rove had made similar comments a few days earlier, calling Obama’s actions an example of “imperial power.”
“This is some monarch [saying], ‘I am the law,'” he asserted.
