Editor’s note: This article appears in National Review’s December 31st print edition. Access the original content here.Despite the Democratic party’s losses in November’s elections, President Obama has audaciously begun ignoring constitutional restraints in order to impose his policy views. This is true not only on domestic issues, such as immigration and Obamacare, but now in foreign and defense policy too. Checking Obama’s misuse of his foreign-affairs powers should be a top priority for the new Republican majorities in Congress.Obama’s worldview demands major departures from traditional American foreign policy and threatens to use international agreements to transform domestic policy. For example, …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
