Say what?

The Constitution of the United States is crystal clear. Section 1 of Article II opens with this sentence: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
Period. End of instruction. The president of the United States runs the executive branch of the United States government.
Yet, because this president is a Republican — not to mention a Republican named Donald Trump — and not, say, the liberal icon Franklin D. Roosevelt or some other Democrat, the Washington Establishment is foaming.
For background purposes, recall The American Spectator’s own founder R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. and his tale from the 1980s of writing a column at the very flagship of the D.C. Establishment — the Washington Post.
His story comes in a book of memoirs, How Do We Get Out of Here?: Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator ― From Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump.
Bob tells the story of being asked by the Post’s then-editorial page editor Meg Greenfield to write a regular column for the Post — obviously from a conservative perspective. Bob said yes, and his pen/keyboard was off and running.
And then.
Eventually, the mere fact of publishing a seriously conservative columnist was causing problems with liberal Post readers. “By 1985, I was becoming Meg’s burden,” Bob writes. Then he adds: “The final curtain came down on me with the Post on October 20, 1990, when I saluted Newt Gingrich as ‘our staunch champion of economic growth”
Bob adds in spot-on fashion: “I proved that the First Amendment had its limits with the liberals.”
And indeed it did.
This story from the wayback machine occurs as one sees this current editorial from — yes — the Washington Post Editorial Board written this very week. The headline: “Trump should not be able to fire all agency heads,” with the subtitle, “Congress has the authority to protect some leaders from removal without cause.”
The Post Editorial Board writes:
When President Donald Trump announced th...