Obama: 139 Executive Orders in 40 Months
October 2, 2012
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October 2, 2012
Al Thompson said (October 2, 2012):
Here's the root of the problem. It is worth reading, IMO.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_l7I0rFYH8sYnNLUXI0SVRJUDg
Government is run by the military mostly, and the so-called civilians are just the dummies up front. The whole thing operates on war powers.
Carlos said (October 2, 2012):
Executive orders have been used by many Presidents in far larger numbers than your source is aware of.
Democratic Presidents such as Presidents Roosevelt and Truman used Executive Orders to promulgate civil rights policy. In 1948, President Harry Truman integrated the armed forces with Executive Order 9981. Truman an unlikely advocate for civil rights had earlier in his career observed that â€[i]f any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political and civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.†In 1962 President Kennedy used an Executive Order to ban discrimination in federal housing-this was two years before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. President Kennedy established the Peace Corps by Executive Order.
Traditionally, Presidents have taken an expansive view of their power to adopt Executive Orders.
Between 1939 and 1946, President Roosevelt issued 286 Executive Orders. On his last day in Office on January 19, 1981, President Carter issued ten Executive Orders concerning the exchange of the Iran hostages for frozen Iranian assets; all ten Executive orders were upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Between 1789 and 1956 only sixteen Executive Orders were overturned. President Ford issued seven Executive Orders on his last day in office alone.
President Reagan used Executive Power to reshape the intelligence community because he faced a veto in Congress.
KP Ryan said (October 2, 2012):
Reagan (the paragon of 'conservatism' for Republican followers everywhere): 381 exec. orders issued during his 8 year occupation of the WH. (source: The Federal Register: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/reagan.html
George Bush Junior (the president many Republicans now think of in warm and gracious terms): 291 issued ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/wbush.html )
George Bush Senior : 166 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/bush.html )
Bill Clinton (the supposed 'liberal' Democrat who torpedoed America's middle class with NAFTA): 364 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/clinton.html )
Jimmy Carter: 320 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/carter.html )
Gerald Ford (in an extremely short presidency) : 169 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/ford.html )
Richard Nixon : 346 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/nixon.html )
LB Johnson : 324 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/johnson.html )
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (in a presidency shortened by the Banking Cartel that owns the USA) : 214 ( http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/kennedy.html )
Carlos said (October 1, 2012):
Executive orders have been used by many Presidents in far larger numbers than your source is aware of.
Democratic Presidents such as Presidents Roosevelt and Truman used Executive Orders to promulgate civil rights policy. In 1948, President Harry Truman integrated the armed forces with Executive Order 9981. Truman an unlikely advocate for civil rights had earlier in his career observed that â€[i]f any class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the rest in political and civil rights, so may any other class or race when it shall incur the displeasure of its more powerful associates, and we may say farewell to the principles on which we count our safety.â€
In 1962 President Kennedy used an Executive Order to ban discrimination in federal housing-this was two years before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. President Kennedy established the Peace Corps by Executive Order.
Traditionally, Presidents have taken an expansive view of their power to adopt Executive Orders. Between 1939 and 1946, President Roosevelt issued 286 Executive Orders. On his last day in Office on January 19, 1981, President Carter issued ten Executive Orders concerning the exchange of the Iran hostages for frozen Iranian assets; all ten Executive orders were upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Between 1789 and 1956 only sixteen Executive Orders were overturned. President Ford issued seven Executive Orders on his last day in office alone.
President Reagan used Executive Power to reshape the intelligence community because he faced a veto in Congress.
Your source was not thorough. Perhaps this is because he sought to advance a political agenda by any means including misleading the public. I admire your inquisitiveness, but you need to be more skeptical about these short cut summaries that are often used to promote agendas rather than advance truth
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Tony Blizzard said (October 2, 2012):
Enough bullshit!
Why is it that no one writing here (henrymakow.com) thinks for a second or two about the legality of executive orders in the first place?
Executive orders are only lawful for things such as ordering food for the White House. That's their lawful function.
If our basic law allowed the executive branch to MAKE LAW as well as EXECUTE it, why the hell would it's creators have gone to all the trouble of setting up an elaborate set of checks and balances among the three branches of government created. Why would congress be allowed to make law if all of congress' efforts could lawfully and easily be set aside by one man's whims and a pencil?
AN EMERGENCY, REAL OR PRETENDED, IS NOT A LAWFUL REASON TO IGNORE, CANCEL OR OVERRIDE OUR BASIC LAW. THERE IS NOTHING IN THAT LAW TO ALLOW IT TO BE NULLIFIED FOR ANY REASON.
Any executive order which pretends to make law is OUTLAW and therefore NULL AND VOID. Plus the executor of it is himself an OUTLAW OF THE WORST ORDER DESERVING OF LIFETIME IMPRISONMENT IF NOT DEATH. That includes many of America's past presidents, including all of those still living.
Americans, wake the hell up, get off your asses or knees and take your country back from this OUTLAW CABAL at the top. DO IT ANY DAMNED WAY THAT WORKS! Or don't you give a damn about yourselves and your families?
Don't pass it off on the pussy congress that is supposed to represent you but only does the bidding of the insane rulers of Israel. Send them all to Israel to stay and TAKE BACK YOUR GOVERNMENT!