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Originally Posted by Robbie
"The bottom line though is they all had to do with skirting around the law"
No, they don't. And neither have Obama's. You are just typing without thinking. Most "Executive Orders" are for little things. That's the whole idea behind them.
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Nope. Executive orders have significant influence over the internal affairs of government, deciding how and to what degree laws will be enforced, dealing with emergencies, waging war, and in general fine policy choices in the implementation of broad statutes. If Congress doesnt like an EO then it is their duty to strike it down with a 2/3 vote. The whole idea behind them is not to declare 'National Wax Day' or whatever.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
As for your statement that the EVIL Bush made executive orders to skirt the Geneva Convention...name it.
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Executive Order 13440 - July 20, 2007. Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence.
http://img.slate.com/media/1/13440-geneva.pdf
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Originally Posted by Robbie
What Pres. Obama has done during his administration is make a few that actually DID bypass the other two branches of govt.
Did Bush ever do that? Yep.
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Just as every President since George Washington has done. That is the purpose of EO's, to bypass the two branches of govt. Once again, if Congress has a problem they are within their power to overturn it. So tell me, what EO has Obama done that has bypassed the Constitution like you keep claiming? And if Congress has a problem why don't THEY follow the Constitution and overturn whatever they have a problem with instead of filing suits and acting like a bunch of whiny ass losers?
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Originally Posted by Robbie
So if you're happy that Obama did the SAME EXACT THING as Bush...good for you.
But unfortunately for me, I am a sucker who actually fell for Obama's fucking lies in 2008 when he presented himself as being different. I'm not going to be an "obama-apologist" and say "Oh Bush did it too!"
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Obama is doing the same exact thing every other President has done. People are only defending him against the nutty hypocrisy. I would ask you though, why don't YOU have a problem with the republicans wasting over $14 million dollars on 54 attempts to repeal ACA and 5 Benghazi investigations and now this?