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Yet Republicans are threatening to trigger this disaster unless they get spending cuts that they weren't able to enact through normal, Constitutional means.
Of the 60 recommendations by the commission, Governor Whitman immediately endorsed 17 proposals she said she would enact through executive order or by supporting bills before the Legislature.
Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage, threatening to undermine the economy and disrupt the essential business of government unless they get policy concessions they would never have been able to enact through legislation.
In returning to his 2008 campaign motif of these being "not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values," Mr. Obama presented a somewhat modest list of initiatives he could enact through executive authority coupled with more ambitious proposals unlikely to advance in Congress.
So this is naked blackmail: the GOP is trying to use the threat of financial catastrophe to impose its policy vision, even in areas that have nothing to do with the issue at hand, a vision that it lacks the votes to enact through normal legislation.
With the gridlock on Capitol Hill all but sure to continue, Romney would be in much the same spot that Obama has been in since 2010: reduced to negotiating with his enemies on the big issues — the deficit, taxes, and also health care — while introducing some relatively minor polices he can enact through executive fiat.
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