that I find it very strange that because he's a politician (well duh!) therefore he's just the same as the person before. Sorry, this is not true. Furthermore, we don't yet know exactly what he may have in mind for a lot of those issues that hnick elucidates. For example... he's a constitutional law professor. Is it possible that he understands that giving congress back it's constitutional powers via presidential fiat accomplishes nothing wrt the organic law of your constitution? That he understands that for it to be able to have the force of law as understood under our legal systems that Congress needs to force him to give it up, having ceded it to his office in the first place? If Congress is too spineless to actually do the stuff that it's supposed to do, what is he supposed to do about it, exactly?

There's a great book I read many years ago, called In Defence of Politics. It's by a brit, ISTR his name was Crick or something like that. You guys should read it, because the point that he makes is a very very relevant one to the situation your country is in. Personally, I find it strange that Americans seem to have this idea that the President is not supposed to be a politician, and if he is, then he's useless. That's just laughable.