https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/25/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-imperial-presidency-again/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 07:45:06 -0400<![CDATA[But today, the liberal admiration for presidential power that Blum memorialized is back. President Obama has claimed the right to kill American citizens involved in terrorism, and resisted subjecting his decisions to either congressional or judicial review. He’s given recess appointments to nominees the Senate would not confirm even when the Senate was not technically in recess. He employed an exotic legislative maneuver to pass his health-care law and has used executive orders to institute many of the policy changes Congress would not enact. And he’s become so resistant to media scrutiny that longtime ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton recently called “the president’s [lack of] availability to the press &#8230; a disgrace.”]]>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:20:44 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/25/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-imperial-presidency-again-n100428