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Another favorite lie of the liberals exposed!
Also exposed: One more way Obama uses deception to further his agenda!
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He's already signed 33% more presidential memoranda in less than six years than Bush did in eight. He's also issued 45% more than the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who assertively used memoranda to signal what kinds of regulations he wanted federal agencies to adopt.
Obama is not the first president to use memoranda to accomplish policy aims. But at this point in his presidency, he's the first to use them more often than executive orders.
"There's been a lot of discussion about executive orders in his presidency, and of course by sheer numbers he's had fewer than other presidents. So the White House and its defenders can say, 'He can't be abusing his executive authority; he's hardly using any orders," said Andrew Rudalevige, a presidency scholar at Bowdoin College.
By issuing his directives as "memoranda" rather than executive orders, Obama has downplayed the extent of his executive actions.
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Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.
When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman battled the "Do Nothing Congress" almost seven decades ago, according to a USA TODAY review of presidential documents.
So he hasn't come close to issuing the most XO's compared to any of the prior presidents so now let's move the goal posts to memoranda. Sounds like the researchers at Fox News are hard at work.
So he hasn't come close to issuing the most XO's compared to any of the prior presidents so now let's move the goal posts to memoranda. Sounds like the researchers at Fox News are hard at work.
How's he doing on proclamations?
I see that you didn't bother to read the article from .. USA Today!
(Or maybe I missed where Fox news was in on it?)
Did you miss this too?
Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
So he hasn't come close to issuing the most XO's compared to any of the prior presidents so now let's move the goal posts to memoranda. Sounds like the researchers at Fox News are hard at work.
How's he doing on proclamations?
Oh, he's proclaimed an awful lot of crap, be assured on that.
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