Updated for content:
Turns out that Obama has nearly equaled Bush 43's use of executive power, in six years. The total for Bush in 8 years, Executive Orders plus memorandums, was 431. Current total for Mr. Imperial is 396 with two years remaining. But, the nature of Obama's orders, is vastly different to all presidents since FDR (but, not including FDR).
Here is the sad fact in all this: no one in the GOP is talking about limiting the power of the presidency. If the next president does not role back presidential powers, I am done, seriously and for whatever that is worth. I, then, will go underground as to how I live my life. Freedom is there, but you have to know what you are doing to remain "out of sight, out of mind." What a disappointment, after 50 years of adult life (I'm 70), to realized that my brother fought and bled in WW II for nothing.
Turns out that Obama has nearly equaled Bush 43's use of executive power, in six years. The total for Bush in 8 years, Executive Orders plus memorandums, was 431. Current total for Mr. Imperial is 396 with two years remaining. But, the nature of Obama's orders, is vastly different to all presidents since FDR (but, not including FDR).
Here is the sad fact in all this: no one in the GOP is talking about limiting the power of the presidency. If the next president does not role back presidential powers, I am done, seriously and for whatever that is worth. I, then, will go underground as to how I live my life. Freedom is there, but you have to know what you are doing to remain "out of sight, out of mind." What a disappointment, after 50 years of adult life (I'm 70), to realized that my brother fought and bled in WW II for nothing.
Conclusion: we are all so screwed and . . . . . . . . . the American experiment as to governance, has been dead for decades.
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Table showing all Executive Orders by count, since and including G Washington, here.
I think it noteworthy that it was the very liberal USA Today, here, that has exposed Obama's imperial strategies, rather than some Right Leaning news service.
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