If Obama's imperial presidency is so awful, why does the GOP let him get away with war?

When it comes to Iraq, Republicans are more than happy to let the president usurp Congress' constitutional powers

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Conservatives haven't just decried President Obama's executive overreach. They have accused him of an "imperial presidency."

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas used the phrase in the Wall Street Journal, blasting as "dangerous" the "president's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat."

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.