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As you (sort of) recognize, can we just wait until he actually does something to start criticizing him for it? The tendency of the press and, unfortunately, the left blogosphere to go nuts over every unsourced rumor about what Obama's going to do or whom he's going to appoint is already driving me nuts. Let the man take office first.
I don't think there is much criticism of Obama in what I wrote, if there is any. To the contrary, knowing that anything that even gets close to a criticism of Obama would be reflexively interpreted and then rejected as such (thereby distracting from the point I was trying to make), I went out of my way to write this caveat:
Let's be clear: Obama didn't create these erosions and he hasn't even been inaugurated yet, so it's irrational to begin blaming him for this state of affairs.
Is there any way I could have been clearer? If so, let me know, because I really don't want 500 comments today telling me how terrible it was of me to blame Obama when I haven't done that.
Nonetheless, the reports about executive orders aren't just unsourced rumors. They're confirmed, in general, by his transition chief, John Podesta.
The focal point here is far more about urging Congress to defend its prerogatives than it is about anything else.
