President Obama, speaking to a crowd of House Democrats at a party retreat in Maryland, touted his executive order powers on Friday repeating a theme he’s hit regularly since his State of the Union address.

While saying he’s willing to work with Congress, he added, ��I'm not going to wait, because there's too much to do. And America does not believe in standing still.

The rhetoric, though, is quite a turnaround from his days on the 2008 campaign trail, when he bashed his predecessor for going it alone.

When George W. Bush was in office, then-Sen. Barack Obama presented a different belief on executive power.

The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all, and that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America, Obama said on March 31, 2008, in Lancaster, Pa.

But after five years in office, and facing Republican resistance in both chambers of Congress, Obama has come around to what he calls a ��pen and phone�� strategy to get things done.

At the Democratic retreat on Friday, both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden tried to rally lawmakers, many of whom are facing tough reelections in the fall.

Although the president was sending a message of teamwork to Democrats, he was, ironically, also backing a go-it-alone approach.

One of his latest executive actions was to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers. On top of that, the administration has unilaterally delayed parts of the president��s signature health care law 29 times.

That has led Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming to charge, It's almost whatever he thinks it is on any given day when he wakes up.

The health care actions have dealt with everything from delaying Medicaid reimbursement rates for primary care physicians to delaying enforcement of the so-called employer mandate for certain businesses.

That leaves some Republicans saying he��s just doing what he wants to promote his own agenda.

It's one of the reasons why there's so little trust of the White House, as they're going way beyond the original intent of lots of legislation, and they change it and interpret it to their own whims, Barrasso said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/15/change-heart-obama-pushes-executive-action-strategy-despite-08-bush-criticism/

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Treason

"The betrayal of one's own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies."

"Under Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution, any person who levies war against the United States or adheres to its enemies by giving them Aid and Comfort has committed treason within the meaning of the Constitution. The term aid and comfort refers to any act that manifests a betrayal of allegiance to the United States, such as furnishing enemies with arms, troops, transportation, shelter, or classified information. If a subversive act has any tendency to weaken the power of the United States to attack or resist its enemies, aid and comfort has been given.

The Treason Clause applies only to disloyal acts committed during times of war. Acts of dis-loyalty during peacetime are not considered treasonous under the Constitution. Nor do acts of Espionage committed on behalf of an ally constitute treason. For example, julius and ethel rosenberg were convicted of espionage, in 1951, for helping the Soviet Union steal atomic secrets from the United States during World War II. The Rosenbergs were not tried for treason because the United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II."

Because of the transgressions by the crown, the founders were very strict on the definition of treason, one of the few definitions in the constitution.

Black's Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Edition, 1968:

"TREASON. The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Webster.

"Treason" consists of two elements: Adherence to the enemy, and rendering him aid and comfort. Cramer v. U. S., U.S.N.Y., 65 S.Ct. 918, 932, 325 U.S. 1, 89 L.Ed. 1441.

In England, treason is an offense particularly directed against the person of the sovereign, and consists (1) in compassing or imagining the death of the king or queen, or their eldest son and heir; (2) in violating the king's companion, or the king's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir; (3) in levying war against the king in his realm; (4) in adhering to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm or elsewhere, and (5) slaying the chancellor, treasurer, or the king's justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assize, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places doing their offices. 4 Steph.Comm. 185-193; 4 Bl. Comm. 76-84.

Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. U.S.Const. art. 3, � 3, cl. 1. See Young v. U. S., 97 U.S. 62, 24 L.Ed. 992; U. S. v. Bollman, 1 Cranch, C.C. 373, Fed.Cas.No.14,622; U. S. v. Pryor, 3 Wash.C.C. 234, Fed.Cas.No.16,096.

Constructive Treason

Treason imputed to a person by law from his conduct or course of actions, though his deeds taken severally do not amount to actual treason. This doctrine is not known in the United States."

Now as this country has been in a perpetual state of war for almost a century, then Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 would be relevant. But even so, the doctrine of Constructive Treason would do just as well. And while not know in the United States, it is but a manifestation of the common law which is known but seldom used.