promising promiscuously, they have exaggerated government s proper scope and actual competence, making the public perpetually disappointed and surly. inflating executive power, they have severed it from constitutional constraints. to george will, the author of that superb paragraph, george, i saw this happen in realtime. i guess with the arrival and advent of the clinton administration, they were having almost daily events, very crafty use of media time and attention for kind of customer service items. the small stuff of american life that eventually writ large became the stuff of executive actions i believe you re writing about in here. that s exactly right. people say it s a shame that the presidents have usurped congressional power to which the answer is if only they had