Why have Republicans forgotten the "unitary executive theory"?

KingOrfeo

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Remember the W years? Not all that long ago? When Republicans were arguing for maximum scope of presidential autonomy from Congress, maximum powers, maximum freedom of action, even to the point of attaching an unprecedented number of "signing statements" to bills, all based on the strong version of the unitary executive theory?

Shouldn't Pubs now be arguing that Obama has that same scope of autonomy/powers/freedom? Instead of, say, calling him a dictator and a tyrant for issuing the exact same kind of executive order limiting deportation of immigrations that Reagan and GHWB issued?
 
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