When the new Congress assumes office in January, the burden of stopping Obama, or the blame for not doing so, shifts entirely to the Republicans. The Republicans can steamroll him into oblivion, or they can incur blood guilt for being complicit. And the sad part of it is that none of us are confident about what they will do.
Oh I'm quite confident about what they will do, run off at their mouths but do absolutely nothing else. We no longer have have a Constitutional Government, we now have something very similar to an absolute monarchy. Throughout most of history monarchs have only been unseated by armed force, and I don't believe that will happen in today's America.
"The essence of constitutionalism is the control of power by its distribution among several state organs or offices in such a way that they are each subjected to reciprocal controls and forced to cooperate in formulating the will of the state"" per Encyclopedia Britannica.
The US is finished as a constitutional republic, just as some of us FR old timers predicted almost two decades ago. I just didn't expect it to happen quite this soon or quite this peacefully.