As President Barack Obama threatens executive action over immigration reform — our new health care reform, apparently — everyone from Capitol Hill to K Street has been decrying this imperial president.

This president has his flaws, no doubt – not least among them his puzzling inability work with the opposition – but if you look at the numbers, executive overreach isn't one of them.

(Let me interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to point out once again that our default position in political discourse of late is one of extreme skepticism. If a fact – or argument – doesn't support one's own position, it simply must not be true. It's certainly an easy way to argue, as it requires no study or creativity to counter an alternative position – like we had to back in my old debate days. It's an extreme fallback adaption of the old journalist's creed to "question everything." Of course, that was never supposed to mean "Doubt everything – you don't agree with.")