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MATT WELCH: Is This How A President Should Act? ?Just think?there once was a time (for more than?

By Glenn Reynolds

MATT WELCH: Is This How A President Should Act? “Just think?there once was a time (for more than a century, actually), when the president of the United States thought it too imperious to deliver the State of the Union via a speech to a joint session of Congress, since that would smack of telling a co-equal branch of government what to do. Now we have a president not just taking rhetorical sides in a state issue, but actively mobilizing his political organization to affect the outcome(s), even though (to my knowledge) nothing that Gov. Walker or any other belated statehouse cost-cutter is doing has a damned thing to do with federal law. . . . We are witnessing the logical conclusion of the Democratic Party’s philosophy, and it is this: Your tax dollars exist to make public sector unions happy.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).