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Executive orders

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I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?
 
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I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?
 
I forgot to place a check mark for the poll. It was just going to be Yes or No.
 
I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?

If that was a guess (150) - it was a fantastic one.

According to wikipedia, he has used it 153 times so far.

BTW - GW Bush used it (again, according to wikipedia) 291 times.

And FDR used it 573 times...in 1933 alone.

List of United States federal executive orders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I think that the EO has become a very dangerous tool of the President. The past few administrations have made ample use of the EO to essentially bypass the Congress or legislate from the Oval Office. As such, the use of the EO needs to be restricted.

Not all EO is improper, but they have been more and more abused. Less we restrict the usage to proper means, it will just continue to grow in abuse and misuse.
 
I think that the EO has become a very dangerous tool of the President. The past few administrations have made ample use of the EO to essentially bypass the Congress or legislate from the Oval Office. As such, the use of the EO needs to be restricted.

Not all EO is improper, but they have been more and more abused. Less we restrict the usage to proper means, it will just continue to grow in abuse and misuse.

Restricted, exactly. As I said, I don't believe it was intended to be used as a tool for dictatorship, but if he uses it to try to ban guns, that's exactly what it would amount to. At which point, would he not then become impeachable (as if he isn't already)?
 
Now Obama is going to ban guns by Executive Order?
Restricted, exactly. As I said, I don't believe it was intended to be used as a tool for dictatorship, but if he uses it to try to ban guns, that's exactly what it would amount to. At which point, would he not then become impeachable (as if he isn't already)?
 
I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?



If you are speaking about he whole ammunition EO, then to my knowledge, this has not happened. Yesterday, some of my white wing friends on FB said that Obama issued an EO for this. I asked, where's the link showing that he did? Others asked as well. Nothing, nadda, zilch! The OP of the post said he'll post the link. That was over 12HR ago. I guess Obama hasnt done anything about the EO.

Has he issued this order or has he not? It's a yes or no kind of answer.


thank you
 
Executive Orders should be abolished, along with the President and Congress.
 
Restricted, exactly. As I said, I don't believe it was intended to be used as a tool for dictatorship, but if he uses it to try to ban guns, that's exactly what it would amount to. At which point, would he not then become impeachable (as if he isn't already)?

Why are Obama's EO's a "tool for dictatorship" when there are clearly other presidents who have issued more? You're simply speculating.
 
Why are Obama's EO's a "tool for dictatorship" when there are clearly other presidents who have issued more? You're simply speculating.

They were "tools for dictatorship" for the other presidents who abused them too. It's just that many dumb Republicans can't seem to understand that Obama is not the first authoritarian dictator.
 
It's what the Executive Order is used for!!!

When it is meant to thwart the Will of Congress, it's dictatorial.
 
I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?

There are no limits to how many Executive Orders can be issued by the President. The most EO's written by a single president was 3,522, by FDR. Every president since Grover Cleveland has signed over 100 EO's in their term. Obama has signed less EO's than President Kennedy.
 
If you are speaking about he whole ammunition EO, then to my knowledge, this has not happened. Yesterday, some of my white wing friends on FB said that Obama issued an EO for this. I asked, where's the link showing that he did? Others asked as well. Nothing, nadda, zilch! The OP of the post said he'll post the link. That was over 12HR ago. I guess Obama hasnt done anything about the EO.

Has he issued this order or has he not? It's a yes or no kind of answer.

thank you


No. I should have clarified that in the OP but I figured it was fairly common knowledge that he has stated several times that he intended to make this his course of action if he couldn't get by congress with it.

Obama renews executive order threat on gun control laws | Fox News
 
You should probably go edit your post....you forgot to use the terms "communist" and "socialist".

I dislike labels in politics. In fact, I'm of the opinion that it is the labels that have ruined the government and divided the people. Our voting process is moronic and criminal. Why should there be any "parties"? ANYBODY should be able to run for president without having to claim a party or label. If several people who differ greatly in their views are battling to be the nominee to represent their "party", the system has already failed because supporters of the ones who didn't win are not represented. If you just had a ballot with all of them on it, and no "parties", then you cast your vote and whoever wins wins. The parties were created to manipulate the voting process because it is too difficult to manipulate it if there is just a ballot with a bunch of names. Tell me I'm wrong.
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I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?

EO'S have been made to be more then designed to be.

they were meant to be used by the president if he needed things such as supplies and things for his executive position.

and it was not meant to be used outside of the executive branch
 
No. I should have clarified that in the OP but I figured it was fairly common knowledge that he has stated several times that he intended to make this his course of action if he couldn't get by congress with it.

Obama renews executive order threat on gun control laws | Fox News
I won't list them here but you are more than welcome to read this:

Here Are Obama's 23 Executive Orders on Gun Violence


I would be interested to know which of these you think is "dictatorial".
 
Provided XOs don't subvert law and Constitution, there isn't a problem with them.

Obamas got 99 problems...but XOs aint one.
 
I believe Obama is abusing his power. I think that the whole "executive order" thing was designed to be used like, maybe ONCE in a total state of emergency when there is no time for congress to convene. Obama has signed about 150 or so. Is this just a clever way of being a dictator?

No.

Go through the list of executive orders issued by President Obama from what I've seen they are pretty straight forward and bland (for lack of a better word). The purpose of an executive order is to manage how the federal government operates, sometimes they create committees or organizations like hurricane sandy task force. Executive Order -- Establishing the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force | The White House

Seeing how painstakingly slow going through congress can be I think an "executive out" is absolutely necessary. Then if our legislative branch wants to actually do their jobs, if they see the President is in abuse of his powers they can overturn an executive order, or even a veto if it comes to that albeit it's much more difficult to do. You also have the USSC to keep a president in line, they can declare an EO to be unconstitutional, example Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) | LII / Legal Information Institute
 
Now Obama is going to ban guns by Executive Order?

Well Obama did use an Executive Order to implement an illegal amnesty for illegal aliens who the left has labeled as dreamers.

A complete violation of the Constitution. Only Congress can set the nations immigration policies, the Executive branch is only allowed and is required to enforce the immigration policies passed by Congress.
 
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