Has President Obama Overstepped His Constitutional Authority As Republicans Claim?

President Barack Obama

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April 25, 2012

By: D. DiFrancesco

We Can’t Wait - President Obama's slogan signifying the administrations unwillingness to wait for Congress to decide on domestic policy issues.

President Obama is not letting congressional gridlock slow our economic growth.

"Without a doubt, the most urgent challenge that we face right now is getting our economy to grow faster and to create more jobs…. we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will."

- President Barack Obama, October 24, 2011

Is President Barack Obama's willingness to use all of the tools at his disposal, and in the process bypassing Congress, appropriate in light of the ongoing gridlock caused by the extreme partisanship and inflexibility that exists in the right wing of the Republican Party?

Selfishly, I would say yes, but does history support this?

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Time is Running Out for Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Speaking in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had made it abundantly clear that the time for diplomacy to work to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program has come. She stated that talks attempting to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons would resume in mid-April.

Talks will resume in Istanbul, Turkey on April 13. Clinton says that "Iran's window of opportunity for a peaceful resolution will not remain open forever". A successful meeting will likely be the only way to prevent a U.S. or Israeli military strike of their nuclear facilities.

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