re: Calvin Coolidge made ~70% more executive orders

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Bayou Sam and all other Obama supporters - why are you all so loyal to Obama?

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Unbridled ego. An inability to admit they made a mistake in supporting the guy.

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than Barack Obama. Calvin fricking Coolidge. Just saying.

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Oh, well that makes it better then.

Hey, you know what else, Pol Pot killed 25% of the population of Cambodia. The communist dictatorship of North Korea has maybe killed off 3-5%. So it all evens out.

Retard

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What democrats have attempted to be Bipartisan? The definition of bipartisan is not going completely to the other side and letting them do what they want, it is meeting in the middle, something democrats did not do when they passed a health law without a single republican voting for it.

How can you claim this is a republican issue when the increased polarization in Washington is merely a reflection of the polarization on main street? Congressmen have one job- serve their constituents. The job of a congressman is not to go to Washington and let the other side do whatever it wants. You, however, appear to be pissed off because your side isn't able to do whatever it wants.

Oh, and by the way, you ARE aware that the people who gerrymander are the people who are members of the controlling party in state legislatures, correct? So your pathetic whining about gerrymandering, which happens on both sides, is in reality an attack on the decisions made by normal Americans.

The whole outrage over gridlock, however, is the symptom of a deeper sickness. We have grown to believe that increased government action and an increase in the amount of laws is somehow synonymous with the health of society, as if society cannot function without constant government authority. This sickness has come about because law itself has been perverted. Law's original function was to protect life, liberty, and property. Long ago, though, a great perversion happened, and government started plundering from one group in favor of another, hence the creation of lobbying, special interests, and the blurring of the distinction between functions of civil society (churches feeding the poor, etc) and state action. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Hence, in 2014, we consider it immoral when the government is not actively involved in society. It has become the great tool through which everyone seeks to take the pie of others. It has become the great fiction in which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

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what he said ^

“I taught constitutional law for ten years. I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that were facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America.” B.O. 2008

We'll have 8 more years of this bullshite too when Bitch Clinton gets the nod.

It's the quality/context of the executive orders, not the quantity at issue with Obama basically rewriting Obamacare and immigration law, etc.

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irrelevant

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Obviously. An EO declaring "National Chewing Gum Day" != suspending immigration law.

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I don't think any Repuican has said has complained about the number of executive orders. I believe the issue is that he is using the few EOs he makes to side-step congress.

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Didn't Mitt Romney run on the promise to use executive orders to kill ObamaCare and Frank-Dodd, among other things?

There were thousands more bombs dropped by Dolittle than by Tibbets. What's your point?

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Didn't Mitt Romney run on the promise to use executive orders to kill ObamaCare and Frank-Dodd, among other things?

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Yes, another reason why he shouldn't have been the R nominee.