Fine, Congress. You don’t want to play ball? I’ll do it without you. That was the core of President Obama’s State of the Union message Tuesday night when he announced plans to wield his executive power with a new urgency. Part of it will involve using executive orders to bypass Congress, which we might see with more frequency from this president. …
The use of executive fiat — Obama announced a new order hiking the minimum wage for some government contract workers as part of a “year of action” — simply doesn’t excite or enrage the American public as a whole. Roughly half of Americans (52 percent) say they approve of presidents using the tool, according to the newest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Forty-six percent say they oppose such maneuvers. CONT.
Sean Sullivan & Peyton M. Craighill, Washington Post