Barack Obama, Re-Founding Father - WSJ
Barack Obama, Re-Founding Father - WSJ Thursday June 4 th , 2015 at 6:40 PM 1 Share To the list of questions Hillary Clinton will never answer, add one more: Would a second Clinton presidency continue and expand Barack Obama ’s revision of the American system of government that existed from 1789 until 2009? The central feature of Mr. Obama ’s rewrite of what one might call the Founding Fathers’ original vision has been to abolish Congress. Yes, the 535 men and women elected to Congress still show up at the old Capitol building, as they have since November 1800. But once past passage of ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, the 44th president effectively retired Congress from its historic function. If you put the president behind the wheel of a car in front of the White House to visit Congress, he’d probably get lost. Wonder Land Columnist Dan Henninger on the Texas governor’s run for President. Plus, can anyone reverse President Obama’s executi