For Whom Was The Term "Imperial Presidency" Coined, Again?

Got an email from Barack Obama today. It says, in part (boldface in the original):

We have all been forced to ask if our politics had simply become too polarized and too short-sighted to meet the pressing challenges of our time. This struggle became a test of whether the American people could still rally together when the cause was right -- and actually create the change we believe in.

Yeah. Because when every Republican votes against your bill, that's not "too polarized".

He talks as if the American people rallied together around this cause; as if this were change that most Americans believe in; as if most Americans weren't against it.

This is the change that he believes in, perpetrated on us by a bunch of people with insufficient spine to stand up to Chicago politics.

It amazes me that people claimed that George Bush had an "Imperial Presidency". This whole process has been such a staggering display of ego it's hard to describe.

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