More on Executive Orders

Following up on our thread the other day about executive orders, Linda posted a good op-ed article from Newsday giving both sides of the discussion.  I took away the point that it is not just about what President Obama is doing with executive orders - because in fact he's in the company of many other recent presidents both Democrat and Republican - it is whether the presidency is extending its powers beyond the reasonable balance expected using executive orders.  And that's a reasonable discussion to have, as long as it applies equally to presidents of BOTH parties and isn't just another way to carp about the guy who's in the hot seat this time if he's not your guy/gal.