doing less by executive order in the coming year thachbd and instead working through the normal what a novel idea. a president after six years in office, sudden discovering the constitutional process of legislation that involves all three branches of government. look, i hope it s true but if passed performance is an indicator of future performance, i got no reason to be overly optimistic. my own frustration with president obama isn t merely the dramatic point of view that i have with him over his liberal point of view, its as much of him squandering the opportunity that he that s to bring a new u level of civility and bipart bipartisanship to the process. academia calls the study of politics, political skingscience. but real politics, it s mott science, it s art. the science would mean that things are pretty cut and dry. governing is nothing like that, governing is a true art and while one may apply principles to the process, no two days are alike, no two legislative bodi