President Obama Forgets that the Constitution Doesn’t Give Him Unlimited Power. But AFP activists want to remind the President that he can’t side-step checks and balances at every turn and impose his own polices at will.

Obama frequently attacked President George W. Bush for executive power grabs while on the campaign trail in 2008, but now that he holds the reins Obama has regularly ignored the Constitution to relentlessly pursue his big-government agenda.

He has abused the same “signing statements” he criticized Bush for using, attaching more than twenty of them to the recently enacted omnibus appropriations bill so that he could ignore provisions he didn’t like. He has repeatedly encouraged his unelected agency bureaucrats to write new laws and policies without authorization from the People’s duly elected representatives in Congress. And most recently, he overturned a hundred years of legal precedent by issuing non-recess appointments to the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was not in recess and despite strong objections from Senate Republicans. If Obama wants to see the “imperial presidency” he attacked Bush for, he need look no further than the mirror on his wall!