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Presidents, who are elected to remake executive policy, find themselves hamstrung.
Neither the WP nor the NYT mentions as a possible Khatemi motivation the desire for eliminating obstacles to Caspian-Sea-based oil deals involving U.S. petroleum companies, now hamstrung by anti-Iranian sanctions.
That aside, the rapier is better than the bludgeon--unless, of course, you are a Los Angeles policeman hamstrung by goody-goody regulations made by a bunch of stupid, corrupt, persistently naive politicians who won't let a guy serve and protect.
But David Ignatius tells Washington Post readers that the court "is only ratifying a power shift that has already taken place" from the bloated and hamstrung federal system to the more effective state level.
These difficulties have certainly afflicted the Department of Homeland Security, hamstrung by its many congressional overseers.