In his
pseudo-State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama declared,
“The answers to our problems don’t lie beyond our reach. They exist
in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our
factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride
of the hardest-working people on Earth.” But as Senior Editor Brian
Doherty writes, in just three months, we have seen what Obama means
when he talks about “reach.” He doesn’t mean “our reach” but his
own. His sense of that reach, and the abrupt and scary speed with
which he’s used it, marks him as an executive with a tentacled
grip—multiple, crushing, inescapable. No longer the cautious critic
of presidential power of the campaign trail, he now sees nothing as
beyond his grasp.
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New at Reason: Brian Doherty on the Choking Executive Grasp of President Obama
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