All it does is show how many orders each presiden

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All it does is show how many orders each president signed. Doesn't say anything about the actual executive orders.

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At first Republicans, and free range conservative whack-jobs, complained that Obama was issuing more executive orders than any president ever.

Once fact-checks showed that he was on pace to issue fewer than many of his predecessors the complaints shifted to the content of the orders, with no curiosity whosoever about the content of his immediate predecessor's executive orders and 'signing statements'.

The salient point about that? Obama executive orders.......bad. Bush/Reagan executive orders.......gooooood. LOL!

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Obama’s use of executive power is not unprecedented compared with previous presidents, however. George W. Bush signed several controversial “signing statements” that claimed he had the power to disregard certain provisions of a law, a presidential action that historians trace back to James Monroe.

Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute wrote to us in an email that Obama “does not hesitate to use executive authority, but he is well within the mainstream of his modern predecessors.”

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