Hugh Hewitt   (The audio and transcript of that interview are
here.)    “I do believe that one of the reasons you’re seeing
this kind of intensity among many voters in this country, a lot
of Tea Party folks and conservatives of various kinds,” Romney
continued, “is that they recognize in this president someone who
is skirting by the principles of the Constitution to pursue his
own agenda.”  On issue after issue, President Obama has indeed
disregarded traditional understandings of the executive’s
authority.  The president directed the Department of Justice to
drop the legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act before
even a single circuit court of appeals had found a flaw in the
law which was passed with bipartisan support and signed into law
by Bill Clinton and about which candidate Obama had said not a
negative word.  President Obama has made recess appointments
when the Senate wasn’t in recess.  And we all know what the
president did when it became politically useful to declare parts
of the Dream Act in o