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Related: About this forumRepublicans Call Him a Dictator, But Obama Has Issued Fewest Executive Orders in 100 Years
http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-call-dictator-obama-issued-fewest-executive-orders-100-years.htmlRepublicans Call Him a Dictator, But Obama Has Issued Fewest Executive Orders in 100 Years
By: Jason Easley
Jan. 16th, 2013
After his gun control announcement, Republicans immediately called President Obama a dictator and an imperial president, but the truth is that the president has issued the fewest executive orders of any president over the last 100 years.
Republicans immediately and predictably went off the rails as soon as the president mentioned executive action and guns. Rep. Paul Broun said, There is a tremendous potential for a horrendous public backlash against the president if he continues the policies that he has been doing of trying to go around Congress, create law and be a dictator like hes been doing.
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A funny thing happened on the way to Obama is dictator who is taking away all of guns Republican Memeville. New York Magazine crunched the numbers of presidential executive orders and concluded that this president has issued the fewest executive orders of any president over the last 100 years. Every Republican president signed more executive orders than Barack Obama has. On an order per day basis, Obama has issued fewer EOs than every single Republican president over the past century.
This fact will not stop Republicans from claiming that President Obama is stealing their rights, but it does demonstrate how far apart perception and reality are for the right. With their comments today, Republicans demonstrated that they are more interested in name calling and scoring political points with their base than seriously discussing the root causes of gun violence.
The right is still feeding their myth of the imaginary imperial dictator Obama, and everything this president does will be viewed through their collective Obama delusion.
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Republicans Call Him a Dictator, But Obama Has Issued Fewest Executive Orders in 100 Years (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2013
OP
Ah, Those Pesky Facts - Can't Let Them Impede Right Wing Fantasies And Delusions
cantbeserious
Jan 2013
#1
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)1. Ah, Those Pesky Facts - Can't Let Them Impede Right Wing Fantasies And Delusions
eom
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)2. While getting my haircut yesterday I heard the guy next to
me stating that Obama "had the most EOs in history".
Sounded like something right out of the fox noise talking point generator.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)9. The non-factual talking point generator eh? n/t
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)3. k & r
Thank you, New York Magazine.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)4. Here are the NUMBERS
Regarding presidential executive orders, by the numbers
Obama: 143
George W. Bush: 291
Clinton: 363
Reagan: 380
ALL presidents here: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html
Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively.
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Average 'per day' CHART
Full post here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/obama-executive-orders-guns.html
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)7. Thanks for adding! nt
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)10. I think he uses them in a much more impactful way...
so even though he has issued fewer they have been much more impactful (and therefore noticeable?)
Anyways if he keeps working with guns I say issue as many as it takes to make us safer, within reason.
Flatpicker
(894 posts)5. I didn't
Think what went on today did anything other than strengthen existing firearms rules.
Nothing revolutionary.
LiberalFighter
(50,880 posts)6. Gee he has less EO's than Ford
and Ford only served a partial term.
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)8. Wow, that's a revelation; someone needs to do a meme! :) nt
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)11. Well, that just proves he's lazy!
The wingnuts suffer no cognitive dissonance. You'd need cognition for that.