The Imperial Presidency

In his Friday column, Charles Krauthammer gets in this knock-out punch:

During the Bush-43 years, we were repeatedly treated to garment-rending about the imperial presidency, to major hyperventilation about the “unitary executive.” Yet the current administration’s imperiousness has earned little comparable attention.

Perhaps because President Obama has been so ineffective. It’s hard to call someone imperial who’s failed so consistently. Or maybe not. You can surely be imperial and unsuccessful. Waterloo comes to mind.

But here is the take-away sentence:

And there’s the rub: the Obama administration’s inability to distinguish policy from law.

Wow.