Marco Rubio Opposes Obama's Plan to Use Executive Orders

Responding to constituents on Saturday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had harsh words for President Barack Obamas plans to rely on executive orders if he cant get his agenda through Congress. In the State of the Union address last week, Obama said he would not hesitate to use executive orders if Congress does not pass his agenda.

This idea, that somehow your idea is so good, that it is somehow above the law and above the Constitution, is a very dangerous one, Rubio said. It not only violates the Constitution, it violates the very principles which have kept us a free and democratic country for so long. Its one of the things that sets us apart from the rest of the world.

One of the reasons why we have not been able to address, in the proper way, many of the issues the president raised, is because of these sorts of actions that he is taking, Rubio added. Its undermined a slew of other potential policy areas where there could be agreement on. But when you take unilateral executive action, you undermine the entire process. And, you make people more cautious about dealing with you because they dont trust you to enforce the laws in the future. ... Obamacare is an example of that.