The crazy thing here is that Obama seems sincere, and does not understand his hypocrisy and silliness
(UPI) With about one month to go before he leaves office, President Barack Obama gave some exit interview-type advice to his successor Donald Trump: Don’t rely too heavily on executive orders.
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Thursday that aired in its entirety Monday on Morning Edition, Obama said it’s preferable to work with Congress.
“Keep in mind, though, that my strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done,” Obama said from the Cabinet Room in the White House. “In my first two years, I wasn’t relying on executive powers, because I had big majorities in the Congress and we were able to get bills done, get bills passed. And even after we lost the majorities in Congress, I bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise and a legislative solution to some of the big problems that we’ve got — a classic example being immigration reform, where I held off for years in taking some of the executive actions that I ultimately took in pursuit of a bipartisan solution — one that, by the way, did pass through the Senate on a bipartisan basis with our help.”
“So my suggestion to the president-elect is, you know, going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it’s harder to undo,” he said.
Obama’s idea of the legislative process is to write some suggestions on a sticky note with a few ideas he’d like done, then complain, cast blame, and demean Republicans before even discussing the ideas with the same legislative branch. Then either sign an EO or jam through a rule/regulation.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Teach: President Obama issued fewer executive orders than:
W
Clinton
Reagan
Carter
Nixon
LBJ
Eisenhower
Truman
FDA
Hoover
Coolidge
Harding
etc
In fact, Ford, HW and Kennedy are the only 20th 21st century to issue fewer EOs than Obama.
Anyway, Congress can override an EO by passing legislation.
So you are spreading misinformation, right?
Obama conveniently leaves out the Presidential Memoranda he used to make policy. Those vastly exceeded earlier presidents.
Gotta give him credit though. He continues to lie with extraordinary ease when he claims that he “bent over backwards consistently to try to find compromise”
Thankfully, his 8 year term of fantasy land is coming to a close.
Nobody here is claiming Hussein passed more executive orders than anybody. We are suggesting his executive orders were almost all of the partisan political nature designed to bring about the Fundamental Changeâ„¢ he promised while trampling the rights and desires of half the nation. The half that are patriots and actually love America.
Teach: We’ve heard time and again, once it’s pointed out that our President Obama signed fewer EOs than any modern 2 term President, that it’s the quality, not the quantity that counts.
Do you have any evidence that President Obama’s EO are qualitatively different than the other Presidents’?
In fact it’s just more right-wing bloviating without any evidence.
Besides all the EOs, Barky had a top scientist at DOE fired for talking a little bit too much to Congress.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/congress-obama-admin-fired-top-scientist-advance-climate-change-plans/