Sometimes pesky constitutional restraints are such a hindrance when the dear leader wants to put his policies in place. End runs are easily justified, amirite?
This is awfully melodramatic.
In fairness the President has to deal with leaders in Congress who have been very overt about their efforts to frustrate everything he attempts in an effort to make him look weak - in the case of Mitch McConnell, even saying that making President Obama a one-term President was THE most important objective for the GOP caucus. The Republicans have, through administrative filibuster, blocked the President's efforts to make routine appointments to vacancies that needed filling, and we all remember the way they handled the increase to the debt ceiling, turning something that had, under previous administrations, been handled as a routine matter into a near-shutdown that led to the downgrading of our credit rating.
Implying that President Obama is some kind of dictator for attempting to sidestep this fraught political process is just stupid in my opinion.