re: Calvin Coolidge made ~70% more executive orders

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Lol yeah, Bush never issued any EO's of substance:

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Tell us, which of these executive orders were NOT authorized by the enabling legislation, or clearly circumvented Congress?

I won't hold my breath, as I figure you're too stupid to comprehend what I just wrote.

no. It was just as ignorant and useless as your post. I do like when the idiots make themselves so easily known. I appreciate you announcing it for us.

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Tell us, which of these executive orders were NOT authorized by the enabling legislation, or clearly circumvented Congress?

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Someone has no fricking clue what they're talking about do they. Did you even read the examples? You people are fricking drones.

I think this has already been adequately discussed for the most part, but just to make this point (for what feels like the millionth time on this board, since "X President issued more orders than Obama!" seems to be a commonly recurring topic), there has been a downward trend in total orders for a long time. They peaked during World War 2. Back in Coolidge's day, orders were commonly used for routine administrative purposes. You see tons of them doing things like granting people specific exemptions from retirement. In the 40s and 50s, and even somewhat today, you saw them all the time being used to establish temporary boards to resolve disputes between labor and management.

In recent years the scope of the orders in terms of the total agencies to which they apply is drastically different than it was even forty or fifty years ago. Obama isn't the first one to use sweeping orders, but comparing what he did to Calvin Coolidge's orders is a bit like saying Calvin Coolidge was a greener president than Obama because he took 100% less plane trips than did our current president.

Those were some real tyrannical EO's, from Maddog Coolidge

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