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Is President Biden going too far with his executive orders? (Original Post) StarfishSaver Jan 2021 OP
Hey we warned them back when W was doing it SlogginThroughIt Jan 2021 #1
This thread should be deleted True Dough Jan 2021 #2
Don't give him any ideas StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #3
"Sleepy Joe" Cetacea Jan 2021 #4
Just watched his climate & jobs executive order ceremony. lagomorph777 Jan 2021 #5
He's sleep signing lame54 Jan 2021 #13
No. Thread should be deleted Justice Jan 2021 #6
Oh hell no. He's playing the hand that every Repuke has done by +1000 times over msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #7
"He's doing it right", because Biden is an experienced professional. Plus he studies. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #15
yeppers n/t msfiddlestix Jan 2021 #23
Hell no....Making Trumpist heads spin is what Joe promised he would do. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2021 #8
The sarcasm thingy must not be big enough. johnp3907 Jan 2021 #9
Obviously StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #11
Hell no allnews Jan 2021 #10
It depends on how many survive court challenges. former9thward Jan 2021 #12
Did you look at the OP or just read the headline? StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #14
Read more than the headline before holding forth? HA!! What internet are YOU on? Bucky Jan 2021 #18
Of course I read it. So what? former9thward Jan 2021 #26
Really? Are you *sure* you read it? LanternWaste Jan 2021 #28
+1 (nt) ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #35
They can't come fast enough for me. Roisin Ni Fiachra Jan 2021 #16
It's justified by a crisis, but I remember what LBJ said, Bucky Jan 2021 #17
Kennedy sent the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Congress in 1963 ucrdem Jan 2021 #36
Where did this image come from? Chakaconcarne Jan 2021 #19
Lol. Ok. StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #30
Hey! You nearly owed me a keyboard! niyad Jan 2021 #20
Fewer. Fewer pieces of popcorn. nolabear Jan 2021 #21
I have a huge peeve about that. betsuni Jan 2021 #31
With two dogs in the house, there is no "five second rule". Midnight Writer Jan 2021 #22
He has dogs Bettie Jan 2021 #24
No. roamer65 Jan 2021 #25
Yes. He's making me dizzy. kentuck Jan 2021 #27
🎶Big wheel keep on turnin', Proud Joe keep on burnin'! Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2021 #29
I've avoided clicking this thread to save my b.p. until I saw who wrote it. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2021 #32
I'm learning how many people don't actually look beyond the headlines at the OPs they respond to StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #34
No most of the EOs are reviewed for it's legality IINM uponit7771 Jan 2021 #33
 

SlogginThroughIt

(1,977 posts)
1. Hey we warned them back when W was doing it
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 03:33 PM
Jan 2021

They didn't want to heed our warnings then that if W made this the norm that this would happen.

msfiddlestix

(7,288 posts)
7. Oh hell no. He's playing the hand that every Repuke has done by +1000 times over
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 03:44 PM
Jan 2021

everything that monster rolled back has to be put back in place, and more. He's doing it right.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,897 posts)
8. Hell no....Making Trumpist heads spin is what Joe promised he would do.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 03:45 PM
Jan 2021

Keep hammering Joe. Kick ass.

Make those MAGAts in Congress go on the record that they are Anti-American.



former9thward

(32,146 posts)
12. It depends on how many survive court challenges.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 03:53 PM
Jan 2021

Obama had quite a few of his knocked down by the SC in 9-0 decisions.

former9thward

(32,146 posts)
26. Of course I read it. So what?
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 07:28 PM
Jan 2021

Yes, hilarious. The point I was making stands because Biden has signed more EOs that any of the last few presidents in this short time.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
28. Really? Are you *sure* you read it?
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 07:42 PM
Jan 2021

Or are knock-knock jokes merely potential points of contention as well?

Bucky

(54,094 posts)
17. It's justified by a crisis, but I remember what LBJ said,
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 04:04 PM
Jan 2021

He'd been pressed by Civil Rights leaders to lean on Executive Orders to fix the country's civil rights abuses (and he did do that some; it was really Kennedy who used EOs for civil rights action). But Johnson also felt like it would be more transformative to have Congress, the people's representatives, pass the major pieces of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. And he was right. For all his faults, Johnson ended up having a much bigger impact on how much progress was made than Kennedy did.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
36. Kennedy sent the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Congress in 1963
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 09:08 PM
Jan 2021

That's not to say that you're wrong about who had the bigger impact, but Kennedy's role in that legislation is usually forgotten:



I am, therefore, asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public -- hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments. This seems to me to be an elementary right. Its denial is an arbitrary indignity that no American in 1963 should have to endure, but many do.


The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963 in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcivilrights.htm

Chakaconcarne

(2,482 posts)
19. Where did this image come from?
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 04:14 PM
Jan 2021

If it wasn't made by OP, then it came from a freeper site and shouldn't be on DU.

That is my opinion.

betsuni

(25,801 posts)
31. I have a huge peeve about that.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 08:15 PM
Jan 2021

Even though I know nothing can be done and everybody says less people, less popcorn, it still bugs the hell out of me.

Same as "troops" used for individuals. Was watching an old movie where a guy was asked how many troops there were and he said there was one, when asked how many troopers, said 95. SEE! I yelled at the TV.

kentuck

(111,111 posts)
27. Yes. He's making me dizzy.
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 07:34 PM
Jan 2021

Just kidding!

He's making FDR look like a slacker.

And they said this trial would slow down his agenda...

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
29. 🎶Big wheel keep on turnin', Proud Joe keep on burnin'!
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 07:42 PM
Jan 2021

Burn tRump"s follies to the ground!

For the music lovers out there...

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
34. I'm learning how many people don't actually look beyond the headlines at the OPs they respond to
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 08:36 PM
Jan 2021

If only DU had a bigger "sarcasm" thingy ...

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