re: #38 KGxvi

Well, he’s on pace for a lot - at 18 in two weeks he’s on pace of 468 in his first year. FDR, by comparison, issued 573 executive orders in 1933 (he didn’t take office until March), which worked out to just under 14 orders per week. 468 executive orders would be third most all time, behind 1933 and 1934. Of course there was an actual depression going back then and the government needed to be drastically modernized to meet the very new and very real challenges we faced.

What’s really going to bug me is when the next Democratic president inevitably has a lot of executive power because of what Trump has done and the Republicans will bitch. That’s the thing that pissed me off about the whining about Obama. Bush increased the size of the executive. By doing, that he guaranteed that Obama would be forced to do that and it didn’t help that the GOP didn’t want ot cooperate with Obama at all.