Obama May Use Executive Order and Bypass Congress to Push His Agenda

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Failing to get our legislative branch, Congress, to put into place his broad domestic agenda, President Obama may decide to forge ahead with his initiatives on energy, the environment and the economy by bypassing Congress entirely and use executive orders to accomplish his goals. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the NY Times "We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues. If Obama uses executive order to make law and push through his agenda regardless of whether or not the American people or Congress support it, do you think his approval ratings will sink even lower? Since Obama was highly critical of the use of executive orders by George Bush and other past presidents, isn't he just breaking another campaign promise? Do you begin to feel that your vote counts for nothing if the executive branch can take the power unto itself to make laws that don't have support from the American people? Is this just the president making an end-run around the voters by ensuring that their votes in the mid-term elections won't have any effect on his ability to get his policies enacted in legislation?