Originally Posted by Robbie

LOL. The Executive Orders are not used all the time to circumvent congress. They are used for things like establishing the "Purple Heart" medal, federal parks, etc.

Pres. Obama used an "Executive Order" to raise the wage of Federal workers (you know, the ones who are paid by the American taxpayer) for instance.

He first went all in balls deep to make sure that The Affordable Health Care Act was the LAW OF THE LAND. And now he keeps waving his pen and CHANGING the way the law is implemented as though it means nothing. (waivers, exemptions, delays)

I don't give a damn if I agree or disagree with what the Pres. is attempting to accomplish. The bottom line is...it's not supposed to be easy to do things. It's supposed to be 3 branches of govt. fighting it out and occasionally implementing something.

All this talk of "do nothing" Congress sounds just about the way it's supposed to be.

Do you REALLY want MORE laws???

Check it out:
"They’ve been accumulating, of course, for more than 200 years. When federal laws were first codified in 1927, they fit into a single volume. By the 1980s, there were 50 volumes of more than 23,000 pages.

And today? Online sources say that no one knows. The Internal Revenue Code alone, first codified in 1874, contains more than 3.4 million words and, if printed 60 lines to the page, is more than 7,500 pages long. There are about 20,000 laws just governing the use and ownership of guns.

New laws mean new crimes. From the start of 2000 through 2007, Congress had created at least 452 new crimes, so that at that time the total number of Federal crimes exceeded 4,450."