President Nixon’s lawlessness was sneaky, and he had the decency to be ashamed of it. President Obama’s lawlessness is as bland and bloodless as the man himself, and practiced openly, as though it were a virtue.

◼ The Front Man - Kevin D. Williamson/National Review Online

◼ Monday's MOST READ: We kinda knew it would be Kevin Williamson's "The Front Man" by several thousand clicks. - Discussion at Lucianne

"Barack Obama’s administration is unmoored from the institutions that have long kept the imperial tendencies of the American presidency in check. That is partly the fault of Congress, which has punted too many of its legislative responsibilities to the president’s army of faceless regulators, but it is in no small part the result of an intentional strategy on the part of the administration." It is not "partly the fault of the Congress" -- it has been done in collusion with the Democrats who control Congress...first when they controlled both Chambers and now with Senator Reid, who is all too happy to hand over power to create an expansive administrative state. It is not as if Congress miscalculated and mistakenly gave up powers. HE.IS.THEIR.FRONT.MAN. After all, he came out of the legislative, not executive branch...