Executive Control of Everything

We will be in real trouble when the leadership in the military agrees with Obama and like politicians who disdain the separation of powers and other limits on fed power in the quest to "get things done" George Will makes this observation today in the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-follows-the-progressive-presidents-model-of-martial-language/2012/01/27/gIQAcobPWQ_story.html

Civilian control of the defense apparatus does not include, at the moment, getting things done internally, but Obama proposed exactly this in his first campaign by expanding police forces to be equipped and trained as military forces
This has already happened
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/local-cops-ready-for-war-with-homeland-security-funded-military-weapons.html

At a meeting in DC last week of the Association of the U.S Army, Chief of Staff General Odienro commented on Obama's SOTU and its beginning and ending with praise for the military's cohesiveness and efficiency in achieving an objective saying that our politics should be similarly organized and efficient.
The General said he had been been trying to tell Obama that.
the audience chuckled

Several years ago Markos Moulitsas of the left-wing web site thedailykos.com was interviewed on C-SPAN regarding a book he had written.
He told Brian Lamb that he was a Republican before he joined the Army and went to Desert Storm. He said when he saw how effective the military is at stating objectives and then accomplishing them by interacting and cooperation, he realized that all society should be thusly organized. Disappointingly Moulitsas was never challenged by Lamb. The military is many wonderful things, but it is NOT a Democracy where opposing views are essential and compromise necessary for the continuation of the system as laid out in our Constitution.

Put all this together with Obama's request to "re-organize" the entire Executive Branch and his theme of "can't wait" and this nation has a problem that goes way beyond Obamacare.