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Originally Posted by RichieLion
I'm cherry picking this sentence from your very thoughtful post, because this is the only point I'm trying to make with my big government loving, dictatorial powers acquiescing, ends justify the means, rabid leftist friend, Buggy.
The President has no right to do this and many other things he's done. If it were a Republican President doing this Buggy would again be "squealing like a pig stuck in barbed wire" (since he liked that phrase, I repeated it)
The President does not have the right to use "executive powers" in this manner.
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Frankly RICH.....other Presidents have used this means, but I find the subject matter of these executive orders to really attack a lot of our fundamentals and are basically unannounced to the american people with some sort of explanation.
For example Bush used this means to do quite a bit in the arena of security and as I reviewed them, they were pretty much internal and certainly gave nothing away to "partners"...ie. other countries.
I might also add that this is just another of those areas where Obama, the candidate just railed on and on and criticized Bush for issuing just one of them.
To me, anyway, the subject matter is so basic to this country, to do it in "silence" is a bit suspect !