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This pretty much puts the whole "Imperial" thing to rest:
GOP Slams ?Imperial? Obama After Fewest Executive Orders In 100 Years (CHART)
Until now, President Obama has issued 168 executive orders. That makes for less than 0.1 order per day in office. You can see it at the graph above.
Here the exact numbers:
List of United States federal executive orders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obama and the last five presidents before:
Obama (to-date): 168
Bush, Jr: 291 (over 8 years)
Clinton: 364 (over 8 years)
Bush, Sr. 166 (over four years)
Reagan: 381 (over 8 years)
Carter: 320 (over 4 years)
You can see that in the first 50 years of the twentieth century, Presidents issued considerably more EO's. Starting with Eisenhower, that trend lessened.
Another member (I think it was Amelia) made a good point on another thread, namely, that Obama is about 60% through his full tenure in office and when you extrapolate his current number of EOs out to eight years, he would likely end up with as many EO's as his predecessor, George W. Bush, Jr.:
5 / 8 = 62.5%
168 / 0.625 = 268.8, or 269 EOs.
But both of these gentlemen, Obama AND Bush, Jr., for all presidents who have served 8 years (2 full terms) will have had the least number of EOs all the way back to Ulysses S. Grant.
It's all in the wiki link.
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Now, people can freely debate whether an individual EO is constitutional or not, but rest assured, each President gets legal counsel as to the veracity and legality of an EO BEFORE signing it.
Feel free to vent, but maybe a couple of facts would be nice, too...
Oh, I almost forgot: the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln (R), was an EO:
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